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Navy Veteran Becomes Red Cross Volunteer
By Aerial Woods Yvonne Lambertson is a proud veteran of 12 years active-duty service in the U.S. Navy, who medically retired in 1997. Her...
NEIA Red Cross
Feb 232 min read
NEIA Red Cross Partners with Indonesian Red Cross
By Peter Teahen It was 2022. The world was still shut down due to the COIVD pandemic when Jill Orton, Regional Director of the...
NEIA Red Cross
Feb 142 min read
Donated Blood Saves This Young Mom After Delivery
By Janet Flanagan Imagine planning for your first-born baby, attending classes, reading books, and going into delivery expecting a...
NEIA Red Cross
Jan 234 min read
30 years of service in the Siouxland
Tammy Lee, Executive Director for the American Red Cross, serving Northwest Iowa & Northeast Nebraska celebrates her 30-year anniversary...
NEIA Red Cross
Jan 92 min read
Nice to Meet You: Taylor Ryan
Meet Taylor Ryan, a member of our fundraising team. She is dedicated to her role and seeks out opportunities to bring creativity and...
NEIA Red Cross
Dec 31, 20242 min read
Empowering Everleigh
By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca Five-year-old Everleigh Huskey loves sparkly high heels, a troll with bright pink hair and says her favorite...
NEIA Red Cross
Dec 17, 20243 min read
Nice to Meet You: Shanie Bockmann
Shanie Bockmann works as a disaster program manager. She trains and supports our volunteers and is often on the frontlines during a...
NEIA Red Cross
Dec 10, 20243 min read
Winter Home Fire Preparedness
The winter holidays are upon us. Unfortunately, we continue to see home fires. Home fires are the most common disaster. Between November...
NEIA Red Cross
Nov 20, 20243 min read
Nebraska-Iowa Red Crossers provide hope as hurricane recovery continues
Over the past few weeks, residents of Southeastern states have been coping with the devastation left by Hurricane Helene and Hurricane...
NEIA Red Cross
Oct 20, 20242 min read
Nebraska and Iowa Volunteers answer call to help
It’s been a week since Hurricane Helene made landfall, and the American Red Cross is working 24/7 with dozens of partners to get help to...
NEIA Red Cross
Oct 4, 20242 min read
5 Takeaways from Preparedness Month
September is National Preparedness Month, and we’ve spent the past few weeks posting different ways you and your family can prepare for...
NEIA Red Cross
Sep 29, 20242 min read
When disaster hits close to home, new volunteers step up
By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca On April 26, Melissa Chambers was sent home early from work to prepare for bad weather. When the tornado sirens...
NEIA Red Cross
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Nice to Meet You: Rob Wisniewski
Our work on a disaster response begins long before a disaster even happens. It is the job of our Disaster Cycle Services team members and...
NEIA Red Cross
Aug 30, 20242 min read
Eternally grateful for donated blood
By Janet Flanagan Tom Hildebrand is “eternally grateful” for people who donate blood. He’s alive today because of them and will soon mark...
NEIA Red Cross
Aug 22, 20243 min read
Caring for pets in a Red Cross shelter
By Janet Flanagan and Peter Teahen Red Cross Pet Liaison Melissa McGill knows that if disaster strikes, it isn’t just people who need...
NEIA Red Cross
Jul 2, 20241 min read
Nice to Meet You: Nicole Miller
The American Red Cross collects 40 percent of the nation's blood supply. This means that volunteers across the country need to roll up...
NEIA Red Cross
Jun 20, 20242 min read
A Safe, Comfortable Place to Stay After the Greenfield Tornado
By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca Where do you go if your home and your relatives’ homes were destroyed by an EF4 tornado, and you were just...
NEIA Red Cross
May 27, 20243 min read
Volunteers Sound the Alarm in Cedar Rapids
Last weekend, over 100 Red Cross volunteers installed 316 free smoke alarms in the Taylor and Czech Village neighborhoods of Cedar Rapids...
NEIA Red Cross
Apr 19, 20242 min read
Nice to Meet You: Char DeWitt
Meet Char DeWitt, a member of our Fund Development team. Her important work as a Senior Gift Planning Officer allows her to learn about...
NEIA Red Cross
Mar 21, 20243 min read
Volunteer Travels to the Ends of the Earth to Tell the Stories of Those Impacted by Disasters
By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca “I’m a storyteller. When I’m deployed, I tell the stories of families who are impacted by national disasters,”...
NEIA Red Cross
Mar 7, 20243 min read
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