George Herbert wrote:
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Are most Red Cross volunteers directly involved in disaster response? I would expect most of them to be doing fundraising, education and publicity, and long term projects.
My experience - which may not be typical - is that they have a few people doing training instruction (first aid / first responder training, disaster training etc), a lot of people who are actual disaster responders (with much of the first group, and many more), and relatively few doing other stuff.
I don't know what their statistics are, though, so I don't know if my experience is statistically valid across their volunteer set...
The Red Cross does a lot of things besides disaster response and first aid. I know a lot of people who've volunteered for them, and not a single one has ever gone to a disaster location. My experience might also not be typical, of course, but all the volunteers I know do things like help out with blood drives, collecting blankets for the homeless, organizing and staffing fundraisers, etc.
-Mark