George Herbert wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Are most Red Cross volunteers directly involved in disaster response? >> I would expect most of them to be doing fundraising, education and >> publicity, and long term projects. >> > > My experience - which may not be typical - is that they have a few > people doing training instruction (first aid / first responder > training, disaster training etc), a lot of people who are actual > disaster responders (with much of the first group, and many more), > and relatively few doing other stuff. > > I don't know what their statistics are, though, so I don't know if my > experience is statistically valid across their volunteer set... >
The Red Cross does a lot of things besides disaster response and first aid. I know a lot of people who've volunteered for them, and not a single one has ever gone to a disaster location. My experience might also not be typical, of course, but all the volunteers I know do things like help out with blood drives, collecting blankets for the homeless, organizing and staffing fundraisers, etc. -Mark _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l