How to Help

Visit redcross.org/VolunteerToday to learn more about the most-needed volunteer positions:

• Blood donor ambassadors and transportation specialists: Blood donations are essential, and blood donor ambassadors are a vital part of the work by welcoming visitors and taking their temperatures before entering Red Cross facilities and blood drives. Visitors could include potential blood donors, people seeking help, training course participants, and Red Cross employees and volunteers. There is also a high-priority need for transportation specialists to help deliver blood from Red Cross facilities to local hospitals.

• Disaster Action Team: Most of the U.S. disasters that the Red Cross responds to every eight minutes are local home fires. Partnering with local fire departments, Red Cross Disaster Action

Team volunteers connect with families by video or phone to provide emotional support, emergency financial assistance and information to help families begin to recover.

• Volunteer from home (virtual positions): Help from the comfort of home through a wide range of opportunities, including caseworkers who help people following a home fire or other disaster, in addition to those who help members of the military, veterans and their families. Financial donations at redcross.org are also accepted. Make an appointment to donate blood at RedCrossBlood.org.

Those who give by April 30 will automatically be entered for a chance to win one of five $1,000 e-gift cards to a merchant of choice.

Additional details are available at rcblood.org/Gift.