[Foundation-l] Charity Navigator rates WMF

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George Herbert wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at 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