The American Red Cross is in virtually every community in the United States and in many around the world. For the media, this means tremendous opportunities to localize your news. Many of the nearly 600 Red Cross chapters, 36 Blood Services regions and 58 Service to the Armed Forces stations have personnel immediately available to help meet your media needs. You can find your local Red Cross by entering your zip code in the box on the right side of this page or by browsing through our list.

If you are a member of the national media, please call (202) 303-5551.

National Media Contacts

Members of the Red Cross media relations team are available to serve members of the national media. If you are a member of the local media, please contact your local Red Cross chapter.

Please contact any of the following people based on your area of interest:

Blood and Biomedical Services
Office: (202) 303-4488

Domestic Disaster Response and Relief/Service to the Armed Forces
Media relations
Office: (202) 303-5551

International Services
Media relations
Office: (202) 303-5551

Preparedness and Health and Safety Services
Media relations
Office: (202) 303-5551

The Red Cross is where people mobilize to help their neighbors—across the street, across the country and across the world—in emergencies.

Each year, in communities large and small, victims of nearly 70,000 disasters turn to neighbors familiar and new—the more than 500,000 volunteers and 32,000 employees of the Red Cross. Through nearly 600 locally supported chapters, more than 13 million people gain the skills they need to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their homes, communities and world. Some 4 million people give blood—the gift of life—through the Red Cross, making it the largest supplier of blood and blood products in the United States. The Red Cross helps thousands of U.S. service members separated from their families by military duty stay connected.

As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, a global network of more than 180 national societies, the Red Cross helps restore hope and dignity to the world's most vulnerable people. An average of 91 cents of every dollar the Red Cross spends is invested in humanitarian services and programs. The Red Cross is not a government agency; it relies on donations of time, money and blood to do its work.

Public (private citizen, business, or student) requests or inquiries, please send an email using this online Contact Us Form.