The Greater New York Red Cross realizes that New Yorkers face an unprecedented number of natural and human-caused disasters and emergencies each year. Our Preparedness Education programs provide neighborhood groups, community agencies and businesses with disaster preparedness presentations, materials and workshops.
We help increase public awareness by helping the community prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies.
The American Red Cross Greater New York Region offers a variety of programs to help children learn the importance of health and safety from an early age.
The American Red Cross Greater New York Region operates the largest and busiest disaster-response program in the nation, providing assistance, compassion and comfort to more than 12,000 New Yorkers affected by approximately 2,300 emergencies—home fires, building collapses, floods and more—each year.
If you’re passionate about helping people and looking for a volunteer career with a visionary humanitarian organization, you can make a difference with the American Red Cross.
Red Cross values provide the foundation for the high standards to which we hold ourselves in our daily interactions with those inside and outside the organization.
Blood transfusions help save lives—and a constant supply of fresh blood is always needed. By supporting drives to collect and distribute blood, the American Red Cross Greater New York Region serves as the bridge between generous blood donors and thousands of patients who need blood transfusions to survive an illness or accident.
The Greater New York Red Cross offers training classes for individuals, groups and corporations, enabling them to respond to disasters and life-threatening emergencies with practical skills and confidence. The classes include: CPR/AED (Adult, Child, Infant), First Aid, Aquatics and Caregiving.
We relay urgent messages between U.S. service members and their families through our global communications.
For further information, visit the link below, call 877-RedCross or e-mail: safgny@redcross.org.
The American Red Cross is launching a nationwide campaign to reduce the number of home fire deaths and injuries by 25% over the next five years through the Home Fire Preparedness Safety Campaign.
Greater New York Home Fire Campaign
Long Island Home Fire Campaign
Metro New York North Home Fire Campaign
The American Red Cross Greater New York Region, in partnership with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, offers worldwide tracing services for family members whose lines of communication have been broken as a result of armed conflict, natural disaster or vulnerabilities such as age or ill health. For the displaced, these services provide hope and a way to restore contact with loved ones. Please read more about our services below.
Contact: 844-782-9441 or rflgny@redcross.org
For more information and to read how we are helping unite families, please visit the Restoring Family Links Blog
With more than a century of experience, the American Red Cross works with the global Red Cross and Red Crescent network to meet the needs of the world’s most vulnerable communities.