[Foundation-l] Charity Navigator rates WMF

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/10/8 George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/10/8 George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>:
>>> Red Cross volunteers do a little bit of prep work, typically, and a
>>> little training each year.  And then a disaster hits and they drop
>>> everything and respond.
>>
>> 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 British Red Cross has a list of ways to volunteer:

http://www.redcross.org.uk/TLC.asp?id=75777

Emergency response is just one part of one item on that list.