The Red Cross mobilizes the power of volunteers to prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies. Your local Red Cross could have just the opportunity you’re looking for—from training to respond to disasters to supporting a blood drive—from delivering messages to members of our military to connecting families displaced by conflict.

Red Cross volunteers are united by their service and the feeling that in changing others’ lives, their lives are also changed.

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The Red Cross Depends on Volunteers

Volunteers constitute about 95 percent of the American Red Cross workforce. Volunteers make it possible to provide services such as...

Responding to nearly 70,000 disasters every year, most of them home and apartment fires.

Teaching millions of people first aid, CPR, swimming and other lifesaving skills.

Helping the American Red Cross collect approximately 6.3 million units of blood from roughly 3.7 million volunteer donors.

Delivering urgent family messages to members of the military—around the clock and around the globe.

As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Network, reconnecting hundreds of families separated by war and disaster around the world.