mojo...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi, Sean.  This is Maura from the Red Cross.  I think we are very
> effective.  We collect, process and distribute more than 40 percent of
> the nation's blood supply.  Our local chapters, which are funded by
> their own communities and rely primarily on volunteers, together
> respond to more than 70,000 disasters every year.  Most of those
> disasters are home fires.  The Red Cross makes sure people have a
> place to sleep, food to eat and clothes to wear.  Chapters also teach
> millions of people every year in first aid and CPR, swimming and water
> safety, lifeguarding, disaster preparedness and more.  And if you are
> a military family with a loved one serving far from home, the Red
> Cross is where you go to get word to that person about a family
> emergency.

> Last week, the Red Cross sheltered people in the Pacific Northwest
> after strong winds and mudslides destroyed homes and knocked out roads
> and power and also set up a family center for the families affected by
> the mall shootings in Omaha.  They sheltered people in Great Neck, NY,
> after a car crashed into an apartment building and helped people when
> a Greyhound bus spun out of control on a snowy interstate.  In Africa,
> we learned, measles deaths have dropped by a staggering 91 percent
> because of an American Red Cross led vaccination program.  And we
> helped negotiate a historic agreement allowing five Red Crescent
> ambulances to operate in East Jerusalem.  This week, we're helping
> people affected by the ice storms and a bunch of pretty serious
> multifamily fires around the country.

> I hope you are getting the idea:  the Red Cross is a great link
> between people who want to help and people who need that help.  You
> can go to our Website at redcross.org and view our annual report and
> read much more.  There's also tons of good info on keeping yourself
> safe in a disaster.

> sstannard-stock...@ensemblecapital.com wrote:
> > Is the Red Cross Effective? I don't mean do they have low overhead
> > expenses or some silly measure like that. I mean do they take donor
> > dollars and use them to fund an organization that produces high levels
> > of social impact? If the answer is yes, I'd love to know about any
> > data that backs this claim up.

> > Thanks to anyone who can help.

> > Sean Stannard-Stockton
> > TacticalPhilanthropy.com