Our Heritage and Our Hope

Clara Barton personified compassion, fortitude and mercy. When the Civil War started, Clara began a tireless Our Heritage and Our Hope

Clara Barton personified compassion, fortitude and mercy. When the Civil War started, Clara began a tireless campaign to comfort sick and wounded soldiers. Undaunted by the bullets that flew around her, she risked her life to take food and medical supplies to soldiers in the midst of battle. For these acts of courage, Clara was known as the “Angel of the Battlefield.” She went on to found, in 1881, one of the greatest humanitarian organizations in the world, the American Red Cross. That was how the Red Cross Movement began in the United States.

Today, more than one million volunteers for the American Red Cross continue to change lives and save lives. They are modern day heroes, responding to the needs of thousands of disaster victims and teaching lifesaving skills like CPR, first aid and preparedness. Like Clara, these volunteers demonstrate compassion, strength and elfless love for their neighbors.

Will you join the Red Cross and share your time, talent and treasure in its mission to provide relief to victims of disaster and help people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies? As a member of the Tiffany 

 

The Tiffany Circle is a society of women leaders and philanthropists. By investing $10,000 annually in their local American Red Cross chapters, these women follow in the footsteps of a long line of women leaders who have helped the Red Cross serve the American public in times of war and peace with disaster assistance, blood collection, safety training and countless other community assistance services.

The name Tiffany and the $10,000 amount have historical precedent. The society is named for the beautiful Tiffany windows in the Board of Governors Hall at Red Cross national headquarters in Washington, D.C. These windows, produced by the Tiffany Studios, were commissioned by Red Cross President Mabel Boardman in 1917. As an act of reconciliation and hope, they were paid for with a $5,000 gift from the Women's Relief Corps of the North and $5,000 from the United Daughters of the Confederacy of the South.

The women in these windows personify virtues at work in the Red Cross Movement: hope, mercy, faith, charity, truth and fortitude. Members of the Tiffany Circle provide living examples of these virtues in their local communities, by ensuring the Red Cross has the ability to help people prevent, prepare for and respond to life's emergencies.

 

 of the American Red Cross, a powerful leadership network of women who want to change lives, you can save lives and strengthen communities through a focused investment of your time, talent and treasure.

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Mission: Possible! to comfort sick and wounded soldiers. Undaunted by the bullets that flew around her, she risked her life to take food and medical supplies to soldiers in the midst of battle. For these acts of courage, Clara was known as the “Angel of the Battlefield.” She went on to found, in 1881, one of the greatest humanitarian organizations in the world, the American Red Cross. That was how the Red Cross Movement began in the United States.

Today, more than one million volunteers for the American Red Cross continue to change lives and save lives. They are modern day heroes, responding to the needs of thousands of disaster victims and teaching lifesaving skills like CPR, first aid and preparedness. Like Clara, these volunteers demonstrate compassion, strength and elfless love for their neighbors.

Will you join the Red Cross and share your time, talent and treasure in its mission to provide relief to victims of disaster and help people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies? As a member of the Tiffany Circle of the American Red Cross, a powerful leadership network of women who want to change lives, you can save lives and strengthen communities through a focused investment of your time, talent and treasure.

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