Disaster Giving Program Members Empower Red Cross to Meet Urgent Needs During Emergencies
WASHINGTON, September 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — As the frequency and severity of major disasters increase, the American Red Cross and our donors are promoting family and community disaster preparedness during National Preparedness Month in September to encourage resilience when disaster strikes. Helping the Red Cross stay prepared and respond to disasters throughout the year are more than 130 corporate and organizational members of the Annual Disaster Giving Program (ADGP) and Disaster Responder Program.
ADGP and Disaster Responder members — along with their employees and customers — pledge financial and in-kind donations throughout the year before disasters to ensure the Red Cross is ready to help those in need and prepare people and communities for unexpected crises. The organization relies on these annual donations from generous supporters to prepare for and respond to disasters, large and small.
The Red Cross responds to more than 60,000 disasters nationwide each year. Whether it’s a large-scale disaster that affects multiple communities or a house fire that affects a family, donations from ADGP and Disaster Responder members help guarantee that the organization can act quickly, providing warm food, shelter, emotional support and financial assistance.
“Sadly, year after year we see the devastation and heartbreak that disasters bring to communities and families across the country,” he said. Gail McGovern, president and CEO of the American Red Cross. “But thanks to our compassionate, forward-thinking ADGP members and Disaster Responders, we can quickly step in during emergencies to give people in need comfort and hope in their darkest hour. our life-saving mission.”
Major disasters such as hurricanes, floods, wildfires and extreme heat regularly affect communities across the country, resulting in more people being displaced, vulnerable and in need of support. Some of these emergencies affect people who do not normally experience a major disaster, while other communities suffer the devastation of disasters several times a year. In 2020 and 2021, the Red Cross averaged a new, major disaster response every week and a half with volunteers constantly on the ground, setting up shelters, preparing meals and sheltering in thousands of people with nowhere to go.
As communities across the country continue to experience more severe weather events, the Red Cross provides critical support on a near-constant basis to help struggling families cope. Tens of millions of US households are at risk of being forced from their homes with many facing the threat of poverty due to a sharp increase in billion-dollar disasters, which have nearly doubled in the past five years compared to the previous five years .
This summer alone, the organization responded to devastating floods and dangerous heat waves across the country. Currently, the Red Cross is on the ground at California, Oregon and Washington where wildfires are raging and conditions remain grim. More than 6.6 million acres have burned across the country, and forecasters are still warning of an active hurricane season.
In addition to life-saving response and post-disaster recovery efforts, the Red Cross also works every day across the country to help people prepare for emergencies. ADGP and Disaster Responder members also support this important preparedness work. These partners strengthen the organization’s efforts to help families prepare for natural disasters while supporting programs to help prevent everyday crises like home fires, consisting of of the majority of Red Cross response efforts each year. The Home Fire Campaign is one such preparedness initiative, which has saved 1,393 lives across the country since its launch in October 2014.
Just as the Red Cross prepares for emergencies, so should families and communities. National Preparedness Month is the perfect time to do this by taking three simple steps: 1) Get a kit. 2) Make a plan. 3) Be informed. Individuals can download the free Red Cross Emergency app or text GETEMERGENCY to 90999 to get lifesaving preparedness information and weather alerts in the palm of their hand.
The American Red Cross thanks the members of this program for their generous contributions.
Current members of the Red Cross $1M The Annual Disaster Giving Program (ADGP) is: Amazon; American Airlines; Anheuser-Busch Foundation; Bank of America; Best Buy; Caterpillar Foundation; The Church of Lord Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints; Costco Wholesale; Delta Air Lines; Elevance Health Foundation; Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation; FedEx; Lilly Endowment Inc.; Lowe’s Companies, Inc.; McDonald’s Corporation; Microsoft Corp.; Nationwide Foundation; PayPal; PetSmart Charities; The Starbucks Foundation; State Farm; Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited; Truist Foundation; VSP Vision; Walmart and the Walmart Foundation; and Wells Fargo.
Current members of the Red Cross $500,000 The Annual Disaster Giving Program (ADGP) is: Altria Group; American Express; Aon; Financial Bread; Calmoseptine, Inc.; Capital One; CarMax; Citi Foundation; The Clorox Company; Darden Foundation; Delta Dental; Dollar General; Edison International; Energy Transfer/Sunoco Foundation; Ford Motor Company Fund; Fox Corporation; General Motors; Google.org; The Home Depot Foundation; Global Role; The JM Smucker Company; Johnson Controls Foundation; The Kroger Co. foundation; Liberty Mutual Insurance; Lockheed Martin Corporation; MasterCard; Merck; Mondelēz International Foundation; New Balance Foundation; Organon; PepsiCo Foundation; PwC Charitable Foundation, Inc.; Salesforce; Southeastern Grocers Gives Foundation & Southeastern Grocers, home of Fresco y Más, Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie; Stanley Black & Decker; target; The TJX Companies, Inc.; Toyota; United Airlines; UPS; USAA; Visa Foundation; The Walt Disney Company; and The Wawa Foundation.
Current members of the Red Cross $250,000 The Disaster Responder Program is: 7-Eleven Cares Foundation; Adobe; The AES Corporation; Ameriprise Financial; Assurant; AT&T; AvalonBay Communities, Inc.; Avangrid Foundation; Barclays; Big 5 Sporting Goods; CDW; Choice Hotels International; Cisco Foundation; CNA Insurance; The Coca-Cola Company; CSX; The DICK’S Sporting Goods Foundation; Discover; Duke Energy; Dutch Bros Foundation; Equal; FirstEnergy Corporation; Gopuff; Harbor Freight Tools Foundation, LLC; HCA Health Care; Hewlett Packard Enterprise Foundation; HP Foundation; Kaiser Permanente; Kimberly-Clark Corporation; The Kraft Heinz Company Foundation; The Labcorp Charitable Foundation; Lenovo Foundation; LHC Group; Major League Baseball; Marathon Petroleum Foundation, Inc.; Martin Marietta; Mattress Firm; McKesson Foundation; MetLife Foundation; Neiman Marcus Group; NextEra Energy, Inc.; Northrop Grumman; Northwestern Mutual; Old Dominion Freight Line; Pacific Life Foundation; Procter & Gamble; Prudential; Raytheon Technologies; Reckitt; Rodan + Fields Prescription for Change Project, a project of the New Venture Fund; Ross Stores Foundation; Ryder Systems, Inc.; San Manuel Band of Mission Indians; Lending Hand Foundation of Security Finance; ServiceNow; Southwest Airlines; Tata Consulting Services; U-Haul International; US Bank Foundation; and Zurich.
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