Our Red Stories

Amanda Wehnes is a biomed account manager, which means she plays a critcal role in blood collection in the North Platte, Nebraska area....

For several decades, Connie Treat has been an American Red Cross collection specialist, comforting blood donors and helping to regularly...

Steph Novacek is the executive director of the Southeast Nebraska Chapter of the American Red Cross. Our Red Cross region relies on her...

Briana DeSadier is frequently a "go-to" person in our region. She works tirelessly to support the staff and volunteers throughout...

On May 8, 2021, American Red Cross volunteers visited with commuity members in Perry, Iowa and Columbus, Nebraska, to Sound the Alarm...

By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca When Brian Eiteman’s firefighter grandfather walked into his third-grade classroom to teach fire safety, Brian...

By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca Dan Miller has been fighting fires since he was 16 when he joined the Fire Cadets in his hometown of Yutan,...

We all have people in our lives who we consider heroes. As we approach the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metro Area Chapter Heroes in the...

By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca, American Red Cross Volunteer After watching Hurricane Katrina tear through the Gulf Coast, causing 1,800...

By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca, American Red Cross Volunteer “The Red Cross is the best of us. Each person who I have met there is...

What if you could meet and learn from your long-dead hero from their writings? Tawnta Staten, a grant writer for the American Red Cross...

Today, we start a new series called “Nice to Meet You” in which we will introduce you to staff members from the Nebraska-Iowa Region of...

Leonard and Shari knew they needed to help other people, and in recent years, they have started putting forth the effort of doing just that.

A person who can dedicate 100% of their time to helping veterans is someone you definitely want to know. Meet Ken Noltie!

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our...

written by an American Red Cross Volunteer On February 12, 2019, Village of Boys Town Police Chief William Clark called on his training...