American Red Cross

The American Red Cross is an American non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C.

History

Afsaneh Beschloss was elected to the Board of Governors of the Red Cross in 2013.[1]

Organization

The American Red Cross is a member of the Alliance for a Stronger FDA,[2] the CDC Coalition,[3] and the COVID-19 Community Corps.[4] It has also been a client of The Bridgespan Group.[5]

Personnel

Name Position Notes
Afsaneh Beschloss Member of the Board of Governors[1:1] Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Donors

Donors to the American Red Cross include:[6][7][8][9][10][11]

  • 7-Eleven
  • AbbVie
  • Adobe
  • AES
  • Altria
  • Amazon
  • American Airlines
  • American Express
  • Ameriprise Financial
  • Annheuser-Busch Foundation
  • Aon
  • Aramark
  • Assurant
  • AT&T
  • Avalon Communities
  • Avangrid
  • Ball Foundation
  • Bank of America
  • Barclays
  • Best Buy
  • BitPay
  • Bread Financial
  • C&S Wholesale Grocers
  • Calmoseptine
  • Capital One
  • CarMax
  • Caterpillar
  • CDW
  • CharityChoice
  • Choice Hotels International
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS)
  • Circle K
  • Cisco
  • Citi
  • Clorox Company
  • CNA
  • Coca-Cola Company
  • Coinstar
  • Consumer Cellular
  • Costco
  • Cox Enterprises
  • CSX
  • Delta Air Lines
  • Delta Dental
  • Discover
  • Disney
  • Dominion Energy
  • Duke Energy
  • Duke Realty
  • eBay
  • Edison International
  • Elevance Health
  • Enterprise
  • Equitable
  • Exelon
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
  • FedEx
  • Fidelity Charitable Trustees' Initiative
  • Fingerpaint Marketing
  • First Energy
  • Ford
  • Fox
  • General Motors
  • Google.org
  • Grainger
  • HCA Healthcare
  • Hearst
  • Herbalife Nutrition
  • Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
  • Home Depot
  • HP Foundation
  • Hyundai
  • IBM
  • International Paper
  • J.M. Smucker Company
  • Johnson Controls
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • Kia
  • Kraft Heinz
  • Kroger
  • Labcorp
  • Latter-day Saint Charities
  • Lenovo
  • LHC Group
  • Liberty Mutual Insurance
  • Lilly Endowment
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Lowe's
  • Major League Baseball (MLB)
  • Mastercard
  • Mazda
  • McDonald's
  • McKesson
  • Medtronic
  • Merck
  • Microsoft
  • Mondelez International Foundation
  • Morgan Stanley
  • National Football League (NFL)
  • Nationwide Foundation
  • New Balance Foundation
  • Nexstar Media Group
  • NiSource
  • Northrop Grumman
  • Organon
  • Orkin
  • Oxy
  • PAC Worldwide
  • PayPal
  • PepsiCo
  • PetSmart Charities
  • Pfizer[11:1]
  • Phillips 66
  • PNC Financial Services
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Prudential
  • Rayovac
  • Raytheon
  • Reliance Steel & Aluminum
  • Rodan + Fields Prescription for Change Project
  • Ryder
  • Salesforce
  • Shell
  • Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)[12]
  • SMA Communications[13]
  • Southwest Airlines
  • Starbucks
  • State Farm
  • Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation[14]
  • Sunoco
  • SurveyMonkey
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals
  • Target
  • TD Ameritrade
  • Toyota
  • Truist Foundation
  • United Airlines
  • United Parcel Service (UPS)
  • United Savings Automobile Association (USAA)
  • U.S. Bank
  • Verizon
  • Visa
  • VSP Vision
  • Walgreens
  • Walmart
  • Walt Disney Company
  • Wawa Foundation
  • Wells Fargo
  • Wilf Family Foundations
  • Zelle
  • Zurich

Partners

  • AmeriCorps
  • Catholic Charities USA
  • Crisis 1[15]
  • Global Washington[16]
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • HOPE worldwide[17]
  • International Code Council
  • Meals on Wheels America
  • Medical Reserve Corps
  • Operation HOPE
  • Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors
  • Points of Light
  • Project Paradigm
  • Rebuilding Together
  • Send Relief
  • Team Rubicon
  • Tzu Chi Foundation
  • Urban Institute[18]
  • Vision 20/20 Project
  • YMCA of the USA

Activities

The American Red Cross has provided funding to:

  • Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)[19]

  1. American Red Cross. (2013, June 5). Red Cross Announces Four New Members of its Board of Governors. PRNewsWire. http://archive.today/2022.06.26-070702/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/red-cross-announces-four-new-members-of-its-board-of-governors-210245951.html ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. Membership. (2010). Alliance for a Stronger FDA. https://web.archive.org/web/20100309044116/http://strengthenfda.org/members/ ↩︎

  3. Members. CDC Coalition. Retrieved May 10, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230510183705/http://www.cdccoalition.org/Members ↩︎

  4. Members of the COVID-19 Community Corps. (2021, June 9). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. https://web.archive.org/web/20221014053909/https://wecandothis.hhs.gov/members-covid-19-community-corps ↩︎

  5. Leading for Impact Client List. Bridgespan. Retrieved August 12, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220812233514/https://www.bridgespan.org/services/leading-for-impact/leading-for-impact-client-list ↩︎

  6. Annual Disaster Giving Program (ADGP) and Disaster Responder Program. American Red Cross. Retrieved November 15, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.11.15-233416/https://www.redcross.org/donations/companies-and-foundations/adgp-disaster-responder-program.html ↩︎

  7. Take Action To Prevent Home Fires. American Red Cross. Retrieved October 25, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221025030700/https://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/types-of-emergencies/fire/prevent-home-fire.html#supporters ↩︎

  8. Coronavirus Outbreak Corporate Supporters. American Red Cross. Retrieved November 16, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.11.16-204111/https://www.redcross.org/donations/companies-and-foundations/coronavirus-outbreak-corporate-supporters.html ↩︎

  9. Corporate Supporters. American Red Cross. Retrieved November 16, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.11.16-203820/https://www.redcross.org/donations/ways-to-donate/corporate-supporters.html ↩︎

  10. Giving Opportunities. American Red Cross. Retrieved November 16, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221116203940/https://www.redcross.org/donations/companies-and-foundations/giving-opportunities-and-corporate-supporters.html#Annual-Partnership-Opportunities ↩︎

  11. US Medical, Scientific, Patient and Civic Organization Funding Report: Q1-Q2 2021. (2021, September 27). Pfizer. https://web.archive.org/web/20230503211316/https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23787007/pfizer-2021-report.pdf ↩︎ ↩︎

  12. Grants Catalog. Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Retrieved February 4, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221204120848/https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/impact/grants-catalog ↩︎

  13. Philanthropy. SMA Communications. Retrieved May 31, 2017, from https://web.archive.org/web/20170531154242/http://smacomm.com/philanthropy/ ↩︎

  14. Kirsch, S. T., Kirsch, M. van B., & Gwynn, K. 2005-2006 Annual Report. Kirsch Foundation. Retrieved April 19, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220419131010/http://www.kirschfoundation.org/who/ar2006/Kirsch_AR06.pdf ↩︎

  15. Clients and Partners. (2018). Crisis 1. https://web.archive.org/web/20220708213408/https://www.crisis1.com/clients-and-partners ↩︎

  16. Members and Partners. Global Washington. Retrieved March 20, 2018, from http://archive.today/2018.03.20-223853/http://globalwa.org/our-members/members-and-partners/ ↩︎

  17. Partners. HOPE Worldwide. Retrieved May 11, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.05.11-073959/https://www.hopeww.org/about-us/who-we-are/partners ↩︎

  18. Valued Partners in Greater DC. (2021). Urban Alliance - Yearbook 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20220708154935/https://yearbook21.theurbanalliance.org/valued-partners-in-chicago/ ↩︎

  19. Contributions and Pledges to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, 1985-2020. (2020). Global Polio Eradication Initiative. https://web.archive.org/web/20231018092554/https://polioeradication.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/GPEI_FIN_Historical-Contributions_Journals-Charts_asat_2020-12-31.pdf ↩︎

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Liam Sturgess

Liam Sturgess

Liam Sturgess is a Canadian writer, researcher and investigative reporter focused on issues of human rights and civil liberties, with a particular interest in the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the founder of White Rose Intelligence.

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