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SAN RAFAEL, CA (May 28, 2019) — The American Red Cross of the Bay Area honored 10 individual volunteers, a volunteer team, a partner organization, and an employee at its recent Recognition Dinner for Marin County volunteers. The annual event was held at Community Congregational Church in Tiburon.
At the dinner, Tiffany Deneaux of San Rafael received the Marin County Volunteer of the Year Award. The award acknowledges the support Deneaux provided to the organization in 2018, including her work as Mass Care Coordinator and Mass Care Sheltering Regional Program Lead.
"Tiffany is a team builder who has increased the capacity of our Mass Care program in Marin County and has provided excellent leadership in developing policy and best practices for managing animals in shelters,” says Eva Marquez, the Volunteer and Youth Services Manager for the Red Cross in the county. "We are grateful for Tiffany's service, and she is very deserving of the highest Marin County volunteer award."
The other award recipients are:
Marquez says the annual event, which honors key volunteers, also gives the Red Cross an important opportunity to acknowledge all of its more than 150 Marin County volunteers. In fact, many other volunteers were also honored at the event in acknowledgement of the large number of hours they devoted to Red Cross activities during the 2018 calendar year.
"Our volunteers are the heart of the Red Cross, supporting our humanitarian mission to help prevent and alleviate suffering in our communities," Marquez says.
Photos from the volunteer recognition dinner can be found on the Bay Area Chapter's Flickr site at: flic.kr/s/aHskQmNdHF.
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