The 26th Annual Red Cross Hero Awards
Signature fundraising event returns in May at a new waterfront venue
Join us for an evening celebrating heroes and giving at the Red Cross Hero Awards!
Now in its 26th year, the Red Cross Real Heroes event is an annual volunteer-led fundraiser that celebrates the mission and spirit of the Red Cross. As in previous years, guests will enjoy celebrating local heroes while fundraising for Red Cross services in our region.
New for 2024, we are pleased to announce that we are pivoting from a breakfast to an evening event that will be hosted at the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), featuring sweeping waterfront views set against the city skyline. Last year over 250 community partners and donors came together to raise more than $250,000 for local Red Cross services.
Check back regularly for updates as additional information becomes available. We look forward to celebrating with you on Friday, May 10, 2024 at the MOHAI!
Corporate sponsorship opportunities are available for the 2024 Red Cross Hero Awards Dinner via the link below. Please contact AlexAnne Long with any sponsorship questions at alexanne.long@redcross.org.
Megan’s career focus is humanitarian response, with 15 years of service within the humanitarian context, marketing, fundraising, and advocating for humanitarian needs.
With that background, Megan has served the Red Cross on the South Puget Sound and Olympics Board for three years, leading the Philanthropy Committee and as Board Secretary. This service allows Megan to support needs close to home while her professional work focuses on global needs.
She currently works in her dream job as the Senior Manager of Grassroots Organizing for World Vision. She equips national supporters to advocate for World Vision’s prioritized humanitarian issues and recently hosted an event in Washington D.C representing 220 Advocates and 30 states, with speakers U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas Greenfield, USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, Administrator Sarah Charles, White House Faith and Neighborhood Partnership Director, Adam Nicholas Phillips, the House Chaplain, Margaret Kibben, and the United States Global Leadership Coalition CEO, Liz Schrayer.
Megan thrives in taking organizational supporters into a continued and transformational journey, inviting them further into meaningful relationship, both through creating best-in-class event experiences and effective digital cultivation.
She has a Master’s Degree in International Development and has studied Human Rights and Foreign Policy at Harvard University.
Megan is married to Chris Pratt (yep) and though she’s proud of her Alaskan roots, lives in Tacoma.
Located in the midst of beautiful Lake Union Park, the MOHAI offers stunning waterfront views. We are thrilled to host a night of mission and merriment in a venue that showcases our local living history of changemakers - both past and present - that tie in to our event’s theme, Celebrating Service.
Please direct event inquiries to AlexAnne Long.
