About the American Red Cross
By the Numbers
Throughout History
Youth and Young Adult Involvement
Notable Partnerships
100

This person founded the American Red Crosss on May 21, 1881.

Who is Clara Barton?

100

190 times a day, Disaster Services Red Cross workers help families affected by this.

What are home fires or other disasters?

100

American Red Cross helped survivors of this 1912 disaster.

What is the sinking of the Titanic?

100

These four high school programs provide high schools and their students the opportunity to help others by hosting blood drives and earn funds that support both their high school and students' higher education goals.

What are the High School Scholarship Program, Sickle Cell Fighter High School Scholarship Program, Community Club Program, and Leaders Save Lives Program?

100

Famed actor Peter Facinelli competed on which celebrity game show to support the Red Cross response to the Hawaii wildfires in 2023?

What is Celebrity Jeopardy?

200

This person is the current American Red Cross President and CEO.

Who is Clifford Holtz?

200

American Red Cross supplies this amount of the nation's blood supply.

What is 40%?

200

In October 2001, Red Cross established this fund for September 11th terrorism victims and their families, which became a source of controversy.

What is the Liberty Fund?

Controversy over the original intent of the fund later led to the establishment of the Donor Direct fund raising policy: D(onor) I(ntent) RE(cognition), C(onfirmation) and T(rust).

200

The Youth and Young Adult Ambassador Program, Red Cross Club, and National Youth Council are examples of what types of opportunities?

What are youth leadership opportunities?

200

In response to Louisiana floods in 2016, this pop star donated $125,000 to fund the purchase and creation of a brand new Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicle, which is now stationed in Louisiana.

Who is Britney Spears?

300

Hero Care, Pet First Aid, and Blood Donor are examples of these Red Cross resources.

What are Red Cross mobile apps?

300

The number of engaged volunteers who dedicated more than 10.3 million hours in service of the Red Cross in 2025.

What is more than 325,000 volunteers?

300

In 1953, Red Cross aids Operation Big Switch exchange of these at the end of Korean War hostilities.

What are POWs?

300

This monthly newsletter contains important Red Cross youth volunteer opportunities, stories, and resources.

What is the YouthWire newsletter?

300

This 2023 partnership encouraged nearly 300,000 donors to make appointments and motivated nearly 41,000 first-time blood donors to come forward and give.

What is the ELF and Red Cross socks promotion?

400

The five lines of service the Red Cross supports.

What are disaster relief, lifesaving blood, training and certification, service to the armed forces, and international services?

400

Through these programs, the Red Cross educates nearly 180,000 young people each year.

What are youth preparedness programs?

400

Red Cross staff have supported service members of every U.S. conflict since this war.

What is the Spanish-American War?

400

This Youth Action Campaign is a free program for teens and young adults to learn about the basics of law and war.

What is the IHL (International Humanitarian Law) Youth Action Campaign?

400

Music stars Smokey Robinson, Leona Lewis, Tori Kelly, and Sam Fischer record this song/music video for a socially-driven Holiday 2020 campaign.

What is "What the World Needs Now"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jCLS3C8DdM

500

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

What are the three parts of the global Red Cross network?

500

As a result of Red Cross campaigns, over 2 billion children have been vaccinated for these diseases since 2001.

What are measles and rubella?

500

During this war, American Red Cross mobilized more than 20,000 nurses and built 54 hospitals overseas.

What is World War I?

500

This program engages students in a national initiative to help save lives through blood collection on college campuses.

What is the Red Cross Collegiate Leadership Program?

500

A diverse group of celebrity partners - including Dexter Fowler, Olivia Newton-John, and Richie Sambora - participated in this campaign by posting messages that were accompanied by custom GIF graphics, highlighting disappearing As, Bs, and Os from their own names.

What is the #MissingType campaign?
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