Welcome to the American Red Cross. Each year over one million Americans serve as Red Cross volunteers serving local community needs — helping people in emergencies, providing half the nation's blood supply, teaching first aid and CPR courses, delivering emergency messages to members of the military, organizing programs for the elderly, for the youth…

American Red Cross Volunteer Services Homepage

Red Cross volunteers work directly with people, serve on boards of directors, serve as managers, advisors, and provide behind the scenes support.

Be a Red Cross volunteer! Helping others feels good, and helps you feel good about yourself. Your local Red Cross can work with you to provide rewarding experiences, opportunities to utilize your talents, or provide training to help you serve your community.

If you are ready to volunteer…

• Find the Red Cross unit nearest your home or work by entering your Zip Code in the Find your Local Red Cross feature on the left of your screen. Over 1,000 local Red Cross units serve communities across the country. Or…
• Review current volunteer opportunities in over 100 communities listed at the American Red Cross VolunteerMatch.org Web site http://redcross.volunteermatch.org/. Or…
• Visit the local Red Cross unit Web site for your community. Note: Many Red Cross units that have local unit Web sites provide information on how to volunteer, or provide a list of current local volunteer opportunities http://www.redcross.org/where/chapts.html.
• Review current volunteer opportunities at the American Red Cross national headquarters in Falls Church, VA or Washington, DC at http://www.volunteermatch.org/directory/org_detail.jsp?orgid=31898

To learn more about volunteering with the American Red Cross, please visit our Volunteer Services pages.

Thank you for your interest! The American Red Cross delivers services in your community through the support of people just like you giving their time.