Red Cross Responds to Fire in St. Paul Apartment Building
Seventeen families receiving food, shelter and other forms of emergency assistance from Red Cross. Learn more...
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Red Cross Responds to Ike
Red Cross is providing shelter, food and emotional support to the tens of thousands affected by Hurricane Ike. Additional volunteers needed - learn how you can help.
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Ready for Ike
For the fourth time in a month, the American Red Cross is moving people and materials in anticipation of a hurricane landfall.
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Red Cross Remembers 9/11
This micro-site includes overview of the response and recovery efforts, timelines and videos - Click here to view the multi-media tribute.
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Taste! Wine. Dine. Help Your Red Cross.
Join us for Mpls.St. Paul magazine's ultimate wine and dine experience featuring celebrity guest chef Tom Colicchio, chef/owner of Craft Restuarants and head judge of Bravo's "Top Chef". Click here for more info...
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Red Cross Shelters Thousands as Gustav Pounds Gulf Coast
Food, a safe refuge and emotional support are provided by the Red Cross to evacuees as Hurricane Gustav arrives in Louisiana.
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Red Cross Volunteers Deploy for Hurricane Ike
An Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV) being driven by Bette and Gary Mattson is en route to Orlando, Florida in anticipation of Hurricane Ike. Read more...
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Target & FedEx Team Up to Help Red Cross
Relief and snack kits to be made on Wed., Sept. 3 at Minneapolis Convention Center. Read more...
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Humana Foundation, Bikes Belong Foundation Support Hurricane Relief with Donation for Each Ride on Freewheelin Bicycles During RNC.
Groups will donate $10 for every mile ridden on a Freewheelin bicycle September 1-4, 2008. Read more...
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Twin Cities Red Cross Ready for RNC
Staff and volunteers are on standy-by and ready for the RNC. Read more...
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Red Cross Responds to Brooklyn Park Apartment Fire
Residents unable to return to their homes Thursday night. Twin Cities Red Cross sets up a shelter. Read more...
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Take a Class. Get a Job.
Save a Life.
Spots still open in September Nurse Assistant Training classes. Tuition reimbursement available - learn more & register today!
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Red Cross Gears Up for Gustav
With hundreds still in shelters after Tropical Storm Fay, Red Cross prepares for Gustav. For the latest info and how you can help, click here.
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Join us at the Great Minnesota Get (Ready!) Together
August 21, 2008 - Themed "Connections," and located the Health Fair 11 Building, the Red Cross booth features free blood pressure screening by local celebrities and ways to connect to our community. Read more...
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Red Cross Responds to Tropical Storm Fay
Neighbors Helping Neighbors in Florida
Red Cross Getting Ahead of Fay as More Rain Falls Across Florida
American Red Cross Prepares for Tropical Storm Fay in Florida
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Get Ready & Get Organized!
On Monday, Sept. 8th, we're partnering with The National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), to present a National Preparedness Month special event,“I’M NOT READY FOR AN EMERGENCY! Get a Kit, Get a Plan, Get Ready!” More info & registration is available online.
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Red Cross Responds to Humanitarian Need in Georgia
Humanitarian Efforts Ongoing - American Red Cross Donates $100,000 to Cause
ICRC Coming to the Aid of Injured or Displaced
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Commemorating "The Year of Making Butterflies"
On August 1st, 2007, as the day was winding down and traffic was streaming homeward, a bright yellow school bus filled with children started across the 35W Bridge. If you had been watching from the windows of the Twin Cities Red Cross, you could have seen it. Read more and view the slideshow...
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Join us for Camp Red Cross
As summer winds down and the school year is upon us the Twin Cities Red Cross urges young adults ages to enroll in Camp Red Cross. Designed to prepare teenagers and pre-teens for babysitting, Camp Red Cross consists of two Red Cross courses: Child and Infant CPR and Babysitter's Training. More info and registration...
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One Year Later... Share Your Story
Where were you when you heard the 35W Bridge collapsed? Were you one of the survivors or responders? How did it change your life? Click on "Comments" below to share your bridge story and what it's like one year later.
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Red Cross Tips for Dealing with Disaster Anniversaries
August 1, 2008 marks one-year since the 35W bridge collapse. As the anniversary approaches survivors, victim's families, first responders, witnesses and others in the Twin Cities may re-experience many of the same feelings they felt a year ago.
Dr. Rebecca Thomley, a member of the Red Cross Mental Health Stress Team, offers tips to help people cope with traumatic anniversaries.
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"Bridge of Sighs" -Red Cross Mental Health Volunteer Marsha Porter Shares Her Story about working with Waite House Bus Kids
Red Cross Mental Health volunteer Marsha Porter has spent the last year doing art therapy with the kids from Waite House. Known as "The Bus Kids" - these resilient children have come back from the brink of disaster after their bus nearly tumbled into the Mississippi River after the 35W Bridge collapsed. Click here to read Marsha's poignant story.
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Healing Words - Red Cross Health Volunteer Leah Droubie writes poem to help heal from 35W Bridge Collapse
Right after every disaster she serves on, Red Cross volunteer Leah Droubie writes a poem to help her heal. The 35W Bridge collapse was different - this time it took nearly a year to be able to put words to what she experienced. Click here to read Leah's inspiring poem.
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