Giving To The Red Cross

The Red Cross provides services to needy individuals through its disaster, health and safety, biomedical, armed forces, international services programs. The organization reports responding to about 70,000 disasters nationwide through its disaster services program. Most of these disasters are single family and apartment home fires.

The Red Cross also provides education, training and products that enable people to prevent, prepare for and respond to disasters and life threatening emergencies. Furthermore, the Red Cross collects, processes, and distributes blood and blood products. It reports providing more than 40% of the nation’s blood supply. The organization also strives to ensure that service members, veterans and their families have worldwide, around-the-clock access to timely and reliable comfort and support.

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008, the Red Cross's program expenses were:

Biomedical services: $2,204,010,000

Domestic disaster services: $502,216,000

Health and safety services: $238,992,000

International relief and development services: $191,892,000

Community services: $127,450,000

Services to armed forces: $57,900,000

Total Program: $3,322,460,000