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** Resolve to Be Red Cross Ready This Year ** : This article talks about new life new risks. The American Red Cross helps people through hard times. This article is about how we need to be ready for whatever happens. We all need to have an emergency kit in our cars and houses. The reason we need emergency kit is because if we run out of gas in our cars and we are stranded on the highway and its winter then we have blankets, food, water, Battery-powered or hand crank radio (NOAA Weather Radio, if possible), Flashlight and extra batteries, First aid kit, medications and medical items, Copies of all important documents (proof of address, deed/lease to home, passports, birth certificates, insurance policies), and extra cash.

** American Red Cross Pledges Initial $1 Million to Haiti Relief: ** This article is talking about how the red cross is helping haiti by contributing $1 million to the relief. American Red Cross is sending money, supplies and staff to Haiti to support relief efforts there earthquake on January 12, 2010. According to the reports more than 3 million people had been effected by the earthquake. There has been an outpouring of support from the public.While donations are coming in for Haiti relief, the initial American Red Cross response is made possible in part by contributions from members of the Red Cross Annual Disaster Giving Program (ADGP).

**Holiday Cards Reaching Military Bases, Hospitals Around the World:** this article is saying how so many holiday cards going all over the world. American Red Cross workers deliver the handiwork and heartfelt wishes collected through this year’s Holiday Mail For Hereos campaign. The holiday mail campaign, which enables the public to “send a touch of home” to U.S. service members and veterans across the country and abroad, was led for the fourth year by the American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes Inc. The public can also support military members, veterans and their families this year with cards designed by members of the Red Cross National Celebrity Cabinet. The cards, which can be inscribed with a personal message, are available online for a $25 donation through December 22.

** Nonprofits Rush to Solicit Donations via Text, but the System Is Flawed: **the Red Cross pulled in more than $30 million by mobile phones for its work in Haiti, setting off a scramble among nonprofits to figure out a way to replicate that success. The American Red Cross raised some $2 million in the first 24 hours after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake — almost as much as was raised in the previous year by nonprofits with text-to-give programs in 2009. Texted donations currently are limited to $5 and $10 increments and capped by mobile phone companies at five a month from a single phone. Some nonprofits worry that they will cannibalize gifts that might come in larger amounts through more traditional channels like direct mail and online.