Tomorrow we hit the streets! We’re starting a brand new project in which four times a year the whole staff takes a day to visit one neighborhood  – a neighborhood […]

The Disaster Action Team volunteers responded to a single family fire in Oregon City on April 2, 2oo8. The volunteers helped 2 adults and one child with motel and clothing.

Can you tell the difference between these two logos? No? Well, stay tuned for the answer at the end of this post. As Lise mentioned, National has just come out […]

The Yamhill County Volunteers responded to a single family fire in Grand Ronde Oregon on March 27, 2008. The volunteers helped 4 adults and 2 children with food and clothing.

Now that I’m back in Portland (after having survived a horrendous 12+-hours in the Baltimore airport which Delta customer service will be hearing about), I thought I’d finish re-capping the […]

Lise just returned from the 2008 National Convention, and she brought back some souvenirs for her hard-working staff. T-shirts from the Threadless.com “American Red Cross Loves Threadless” t-shirt design competition! […]

Just in. Late report: The Disaster Assistance Volunteers did also open a case and assisted a Single Family Fire in Estacada, Clackamas County, last Friday, March 28th. Three adults and […]

Columbia County Disaster Volunteers responded to a Single Family Fire in St. Helens on March 29th. They assisted four adults with food and clothes. The Metro Disaster Assistance Volunteers responded […]

In case you don’t live in Portland or are reading this blog while vacationing on some sunny beach in the tropics and aren’t aware of the current weather in Portland…it’s […]

While Lise is off frolicking with costume-clad volunteers at the Red Cross convention in Baltimore, we’re having our own celebration of sorts. The Family and Friends Blood Drive. Down in […]