Hope In The American Red Cross

The American Red Cross (ARC) is an organization that was founded in 1881 by Clara Barton and established itself as the most well-known emergency relief organization devoted to the care of war victims, disaster victims, and the suffering worldwide. Unfortunately, the ARC has been plagued with a high executive turnover, slow response to disastrous events, and mismanagement of donation funds. These problems now have the ARC facing another problem, fixing their credibility for the future.

It can’t be disputed that since its inception, the Red Cross has had a lasting impact on the overall well-being of American citizens, instilling confidence in them that if a disaster does strike in their lives, the Red Cross is there to ease the pain a bit. However, much like any other organization, the Red Cross has had its fair share of flaws and mishaps. A crucial mistake in the business world may result in a substantial loss of money or even a sentence to prison. Unfortunately for the Red Cross, everything they do and participate in deals with the lives of everyday individuals. As a result, if their jobs aren’t done correctly or mistakes are being made, it could put the lives of thousands at risk and therefore jeopardize their institution. Some may argue that in several instances, there has been mistakes made that have directly and negatively impacted the lives of Americans. An

This organization is a very powerful and recognized thing in today’s world. Some people donate a pint of blood which can save three people’s lives. Clara Barton spent many years helping soldiers heal back to health but the American Red Cross provides healing for everyone in the United States even just by donating something little can save someone’s live or make their day

The American Red Cross is a major organization in the United States and around the world. Clara Barton founded the American chapter in 1881. She was a public servant who decided to get involved during the civil war by attending to wounded soldiers and feeding them on the battlefield. Her sense of humanitarian work was only strengthened by her trip to Europe during the Franco Prussian war, where she discovered the initiative of Henri Dunant (Reitman, 1996). After the battle of Solfinero, this Swiss banker was shocked by the carnage of war and decided to gather doctors and volunteers around the village to help tend to the wounded. This action motivated him to create a nonpartisan organization that can focus on caring for people wounded in wars and conflicts regardless of their origin. (Reitman, 1996). The organization was ratified in the 1864 Geneva Convention by twelve countries and later by many others. The United States Red Cross was founded due to the efforts of Barton in Washington (Reitman, 1996). The first chapter of the national American Red Cross was created in upstate New York. Later, the organization received funding to create its national headquarters in Washington. Since then, the Red Cross has benefited form a close relationship with Washington as it was created by congressional charter more than a century ago and plays a

Does hope really demolish one from achieving the best or is hope the fuel that ignites one’s ambitions? According to Pema Chodron, a Buddhist nun, one can only be successful if they give up all hope of succeeding. In her article, “Start Where You Are”, Chodron shares her perspective on Buddhism and how giving up hope is the solution to all problems. On the other hand, Thomas Jefferson advocates hope by persuading his nephew in a letter to always strive to become better. These two authors provide readers with two very different views on how one could live an exceeding life.

The most notable achievement made by Clara Barton is the founding of the American Red Cross. After the war, she took a deserved cure vacation to Europe. While on her stay, she came in contact with some members of the National Red Cross Committee. With her heart set on creating an American Red Cross, she returned to America. The government was hesitant to begin the organization. They were afraid of getting entangled into foreign affairs. Finally, “it was finally approved in 1882 at the Geneva Convention.” (Former and Garraty) Thanks to the Clara Barton’s work, there are nearly 64,000 disaster responses yearly made by the American Red Cross. (“Disaster

The purpose of this paper is to explore the Red Cross of America. The paper discusses the historical background of the Red Cross along with the current status of the organization. Nevertheless, the study intends to focus on the section 501 (c) (3). The section specifically enlightens the prospects through which the tax exemption may be applied. International Committee of Red Cross (commonly known as Red Cross) was established in 1863 as a non-profit social organization. Red Cross works under the head of The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, which is the world’s largest humanitarian network. Main objective of the Red Cross is to protect life and health, assuage human suffering, and endorse human dignity. Red

There are numerous reasons for the American Red Cross (ARC) ethical dilemmas. First, the ARC has a history of mismanagement of money for both executives salaries and monetary donations. The ARC has a history of awarding generous severance packages, even to ousted executives with short tenures (Ferrell, Freidrich, & Ferrell, 2015). Additionally, we have learned from numerous disasters where the ARC misappropriated monetary donations. For example, in Laura Sullivan's article, she describes the ARC's actions after the Haiti earthquake. The ARC vowed to help Haiti rebuild, however, years later, there is no sign of ARC's help. A search of the nearly $500 million in donations resulted in, "a string of poorly managed projects, questionable spending and dubious claims of success" (2015, para. 3).

Since 2010, the American Red Cross (ARC) annual expenditures on domestic relief services have been between $250 million and $400 million with majority of the donations coming from private donors. Additionally as of 2015, approximately 90% of the Red Cross workforce during disasters were comprised of volunteers. 2014 the Red Cross saw an enormous influx of expenditures as a result of Hurricane Sandy. This national disasters tested the overall efficiency of the Red Cross Operations since the Hurricane Katrina debacle. One of the significant issues raised by the society was the lagged response time of the ARC. One the reasons for this delay was due to the uncertain of the responsibilities between the ARC and the Federal Emergency Management Agency

As part of a worldwide movement the American Red Cross offers care and hope to victims of war, poverty and natural disasters, and, as such it is with great anticipation that I will undertake the task of researching from various sources, and presenting its history, philosophy, mission, vision and value statement. Among this, I will briefly describe the culture of the organization, noting whether the organization’s espoused values align with its enacted values. I will also address the extent to which organizational culture is determined by communication or lack thereof and the role communication plays in perception and organizational culture. I will also explain how misalignment between espoused values and enacted values affect

Alexis Moloney was just another person in this world. But one day, something horrible happened. She was just enjoying another day of life, doing what she does every other day, but then it happened. She came home and was devastated. An fire had broken out in her house and most everything was burned. She didn’t have many people to turn to, and those she could have, didn’t have enough money to support her. So she went from place to place and finally she found a place at her cousin’s home. While she was there she listened to what the news had to say about the fire that consumed her home. The news didn’t report anything for a while after it happened. She waited and waited, and when it finally came on the news, there wasn’t much about it.

From the novel Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, the author, writes about the importance of hope people should have during difficult times to make them stronger. For instance, he states, “The kind of hope that creates a willingness to position oneself in a hopeless place and be a witness, that allows one to believe in a better future, even in the face of abusive power. That kind of hope makes one strong” (Stevenson 219). A person who gave people hope that made them strong was Vera Brittain. She was the author of “Testament of Youth” which stated horror of World War One ("Vera Brittain Biography"). Vera Brittain brought hope to people during the World War One and even brings hope to people today.

The reasons for the American Red Cross’s ethical dilemmas are due to the lack of systems and policies for dealing with the unique situations that require a response from the organization. This is apparent with Hurricane Katrina and the enormity of the response that was needed to address all of the needs of the victims, donations received, and the orchestration of the volunteer effort to include coordination of efforts with various organizations.

Many of the reasons for the American Red Cross' ethical dilemmas was because of their untruthful presidents and CEOs as well as some of their employees' greed. Many of the ARC's staff were greedy and were only concerned about padding their own pockets and not about the welfare of others and this is one of the biggest reasons for the ARC's ethical dilemmas. Also, the organization had to many people that were not looking out for the welfare of the company as a whole. Another reason for the dilemmas of the ARC is because they did not have to account for their actions and did not have to report to someone who would hold each and every one of them accountable (www.citizen.org). The company should have all of their members held to the highest standard possible in ethics and values when they are hired and randomly throughout one's employment. Not just anyone can work for an organization like American Red Cross, but it has to be someone that holds themselves at high standards, both

The ICRC Fundamental principles of the Red Cross’s purpose is to respond to the suffering and needs of individuals. The Red cross has developed seven principles: 1. Humanity: is to bring assistance without being discriminate of others. The purpose of this principle is to reduce and ease the suffering a human obtains. It protects the life and health of a human and it develops the understanding between friends makes peace with people. 2. Impartiality: It does not discriminate against any race or religion or opinions. It also attempts to reduce the suffering the individuals obtain by looking at the needs they have and helping them with stressful situations. 3. Neutrality: You must not take any sides when hostile conflicts happen and you must not become involved in political and religious disputes. 4. Interdependence: When you act in ways with movement principles. They have to maintain and be free from the control from self-governments. The last three principles are Voluntary Service, Unity and Universality. An example of unity is that there is one Red cross in one country and it is open to the public. It also needs to continue the humanitarian work across its region. An example of Universality is all populations are equal and have equal tasks when their helping one another.