American Red Cross Recensioni 

They try to make their online course seem like it will fill requirements for CPR courses for rural students. THIS IS WRONG! They take your money and do not offer any support to anyone except those in urban areas. The agents then lied to me and said that I purchased it a day before I did and that's why they refused the refund. Even though my card + their emails said the correct date.

worst experience ever. The staff is so incompetent. They couldn't find my vein and created a blood clot which blocked the flow of blood. It's not worth it to risk your life in your health to donate blood when the staff doesn't know what they're doing.

I signed up for a class and canceled it because of problems finding how to take it online and couldn't figure it out. I am not receiving a refund because it was over 24 hours. Customer Service was horrible.

I will never donate blood again for the soul reason of the unwanted phone calls. I have told them to stop several times through the years. But still get the phone calls 1 - 4 times a week to donate blood. I've blood the number and been in contact with a lawyer do to the calls. Any one donating beware. I hope the phone calls was worth someone giving you a bad name and not donating blood anymore.

On January 27th I had a devastating fire in my apartment. It was a total loss everything's gone. Material things are replaceable. But there's some things that aren't, such as my late husband's ashes. The First Responders from ARC I have to say we're amazing. They were kind, compassionate, and extremely understanding. It was 3:30 in the morning when they were talking to me. I have a lot of respect for the First Responders that came out. They gave me a debit card with $350 on it and I got a $50 voucher for clothes at the Goodwill. They were just amazing like immediate needs right there I got a blanket and I got toiletries a little bag of toiletries. I just couldn't thank them enough.
My nightmare, however begins a couple days after the fire when Red Cross contacted me. They connected me with a caseworker who seem to have a problem with the fact that I was just pretty miserable after the fire. She kept trying to push him Mental Health Services on me and I explained to her more than once that I already have a counselor. I suffer from depression and anxiety and there's times that it's really bad for me. I have a therapist that I see every week and I have been seeing him for the past 8 and 1/2 years since my husband passed away.
I can't explain these last two weeks except to say that I have no clue where I'm going or what I'm doing. I can also admit that there have been a few times when I was snappish or snotty. It was never intended towards anybody. I even told the caseworker this the second time I spoke with her. Because the first time I was quite upset it was the day after the fire. I apologize to her and I told her I said you know my whole life was in that apartment. She said she understood. Apparently she didn't. From that point on she did nothing but give me a hard time. She called my friend up and told her that I am a liar and that I wasn't checking into the resources she gave me. I was. I checked into every shelter and every place she gave me to try to get warmth and guess what none of them had a place for me to stay overnight. That usually happens a lot when the weather gets bitter cold. My husband passed away and eat and a half years ago and since then my life has just been a crap shoot. My caseworker would call everybody else including my landlord and texting people at 11:30 at night saying that she was trying to help me. She had my number she knew she could get in touch with me. She had actually left a message on my phone telling me to get back in touch with her that I could call her or text. The only thing she forgot, was her cell phone number. It was four days until I was able to touch base with her. I was sleeping in my car and I had no gas and I couldn't start the car for warm because I had no gas or no money. Her first response was I was exaggerating that I didn't call all those times. I have no reason to lie. I will admit that I have mental health issues with depression and anxiety, It doesn't make me a bad person and it certainly doesn't make me a liar. I have every text message that she ever sent me. She would talk over me and not listen. And then when I got snotty she got offended. I felt so discriminated against and looked down upon. When I finally got in touch with that day and I explained to her that I was cold and then I needed some food she offered to put $100 on the debit card that they gave me because I was running low so that I can get a room and I can get some warmth and I could sleep in a bed. She never put that on and because of that I spent an entire weekend out in the cold and then from there I ended up in the hospital. I hadn't eaten in about 5 days it was so cold and I had no gas to get anywhere. I would have loved to have gone to a shelter or any place for that matter to get a little warmth. I then proceeded to call the ombud who supposedly is in charge of the Red Cross or that's where you would make complaints to. When they got back to me they did the same thing they talk to you like your scum. Like well why didn't you do this and why didn't you do that? Well I did but all those resources there was no room for me in any of those shelters. Then because I couldn't find a shelter they called me a liar. I do have proof of everything I'm writing every text message she sent. All my memories of my husband. The few things I had left of him or gone now. And they couldn't understand why I was in a crappy mood and why I wasn't friendly. AMR should screen their volunteers a little better. The case workers make you feel like you just want to end it oh. I'm on ssdi. I'm on limited income and will be getting my dep. & rent back. I have taken care of myself a long time. I just need a hand up for a few days. I'm just about 60 and I have health issues it's really tough on me being out in the cold. But make no mistake, AMR does not care. When I complain to the Ombud, my case was closed, saying I had everything I needed. Except for gas in my car, warm food and a place to sleep. They abandoned me.

I have donated to the American Red Cross before but I quit after a while, I noticed another review stating how much the people made at the organization and that's one of the reasons I stopped giving, they make a obscene amount of money but a lot of it doesn't go to where they say it does, I haven't donated now for a couple years because the money doesn't go to people in need, it goes into the pockets of the people running it, that's sad! I won't be donating any more to the Red Cross either, I was hoping my donation would help families in need but it does not, shame on the Red Cross.

ARC is NOT a charity...STAY AWAY....they pretend to be a charity to make $Money. 2021 Salaries:

$781,120: Clifford Holtz, Chief Operating Officer
$751,789: Chis Hrouda, President, Biomedical Services
$723,696: Shaun Gilmore, Chief Transformation Officer
$640,483: Gail McGovern, President and CEO
$629,954: Brian Rhoa, CFO
$535,518: Paul Sullivan, SVP, Donor Services
$491,333: Phyllis Harris, General Counsel
$488,883: Melissa Hurst, Chief HR Officer
$468,179: Don Herring, Chief Development Officer
$451,121: Jack McMaster, President, Training Services
$444,692: Peter Giamalva, SVP, Biomedical Sales and Marketing
$409,434: Pampee Young, Chief Medical Officer
$408,920: Ronnie Strickland, CIO
$407,120: Harvey Johnson, President, Humanitarian Services
$326,631: Jennifer Hawkins, Corp Secretary and Chief of Staff

Expenses totaled $2.8 billion with the largest expense reported to be compensation (salaries, pension, benefits, and payroll taxes). 17,918 employees received $1.353 billion or an average compensation of $76,000. Expenses totaled $2.8 billion with the largest expense reported to be compensation (salaries, pension, benefits, and payroll taxes). 17,918 employees received $1.353 billion or an average compensation of $76,000.

Friendly Staff, misleading email promotions. STAY ALERT AND BE AWARE! $45 donation invite for a platelet donation. DONATED IN AUGUST, received a $10 gift card via tangocard. Customer service was not interested in helping in their promotion that they are running to get donors in the door. I WILL NOT be donating again. Misleading lure to get people in.

I'm sorry I have to tell how I feel Red Cross is right down the street from my house I have three fires in my house this last fire I had in my house the whole house was smoke damage one room was saved I lost everything I'm talking about everything I had one room left with stuff in it!
The manager was trying to kick me out because he said it was unhabitable so did my housing company
Everybody was looking at our family like we were crazy cuz they said Red Cross put them in hotels we bought everything they had helped him fix their car all this great stuff you're on the commercial saving people giving them blanket doing all this extra stuff why is it that I can get a hotel why is it that I couldn't get the services that everybody else got they gave me a Goodwill voucher and I can only get certain things $50 I said my whole house was affected I don't understand they couldn't help me with my deposit they gave me $600 to fix my car at this time I wasn't getting food stamps because the landlord didn't change my address when I moved on his application to the housing place so I couldn't get any services from anybody cuz it look like I was doing fried my address was not correct in the system the first time I moved there a month after I moved in my dishwasher caught on fire I didn't know what was going on the second fire was in my bedroom I almost got burnt up my bed was burnt up if I had the pictures to show you I would I can't show you any pictures right now this time I'm going to recover them but that fire happened because of the outlets in my house clearly the last fire was on the stove the fire started because the stove gets really really hot and he gets really really cold then really really hot didn't really really cold my dishwasher was on the same energy line and my sink and my and my refrigerator clearly this is a freak tragedy that is mentally stressful seeing all I've been through you would you would think that Red Cross would help more I got the parts for my car but I wasn't able to fix it or get it fixed because it cost money to fix your car at least if I didn't get a hotel I would think that they would help me get my car fixed so I can least drive it off the lot so it won't get burnt up too no there's no sympathy but everybody else in this whole neighborhood everybody that I talk to you on the commercial is happy and Red Cross is saving them okay let me ask you this why is it that I call Red Cross before the first apartment when I moved here from California 5 years ago my house was in a flood for three holidays Christmas New Year's and Valentine's a flood because the sub pump will kept breaking the pipes Red Cross came out they didn't help me do a single thing they didn't even call me back they didn't get nobody to call me back and say they didn't have no services they was not responding to me for 3 months oh yeah and I'm going to give reviews about every apartment complex that had all these problems in them and I'm looking like something's wrong with me Red Cross is supposed to be the preview of people that help people get back on their feet but you think they can do that for me no not at all I'm really irritated with it I'm not even frustrated because I'm a brat I'm saying this is the second time it's something happened to me tragically and Red Cross for some reason treating me like we understand but you didn't understand because you did I would still be in a situation my car still sitting out there with the parts that I bought turn around and gave me three more $100 you could buy a lollipop with that I'm just saying I told him exactly what I wanted to do that's all I needed from them if I could have got my car fixed and I couldn't start working so I wouldn't have to ask nobody for anything I have no support it's scary that situation messed up my son's mental health he had to go to the crazy house when all Red Cross had to do was act like I was everybody else they helped so no I'm not happy I don't expect them to still do nothing for me it would be nice but I'm okay I'm not begging for anything I just need help the kind of help that everybody else received makes me feel like I was discriminated against it's always some type of discrimination why why can't I get help I still don't have what I need that's going to become another review for Seattle housing authority so look out for it I'm tired if I can help myself I would help myself but I can't as far as starting over and getting back on my feet if someone could just help me get back on my feet I don't have any panties I don't have any and if I would have knew that it would have been enough to fix my car I wouldn't have bought no parts for my car I wouldn't even talked about my car I would have let it burn up with the rest of the house I would have got some underwears and some bras and then I had to go to a certain Goodwill which is very expensive why can I go to the outlet where you can get everything for 2 dollars a pound so yeah I'm depressed

I would get them zero if I could. There was an apartment fire a couple years ago in my apartment and it was completely destroyed and I barely got out alive with my roommate. I finally got a hotel and as soon as I got a room at a phone I called the Red Cross for clothing and hygiene products and help to start rebuilding. Guess what response I got? "So you're telling me that your apartment burned down a couple days ago,and you're just now calling? Like b I t c h yes. Didn't have a phone options or money until then..ugh they are useless.

Great organization made up of thousands if not millions of volunteers. One of the most important non profit organizations in the world. Has saved so many countless lives it is hard for me to count. I've done some volunteer work for them and in the process I've met dozens of people especially on the phone that are some of the best and brightest people in the world from nurses to doctors to Pilots to IT personnel to Legal Representatives. You name it they do it. Got my CPR certification through them and almost became a CPR certified instructor. And maybe one day I still will and work for them part-time as a volunteer. My only real issue with the company is for such a large organization with so many generous dedicated people the communication factor between the volunteer work you do when to meet up with people how to do it how to organize things Etc leaves much to be desired. This is definitely one of the most generous organizations in the world that does many things for people but trying to stay in contact with people is incredibly difficult trying to get facts and details very directly is very very difficult. Something that could be very much improved especially for something that does so much important work is who to call when to meet up how to do it what to be prepared for. In this area there's constantly changing times and dates changing contact information who and where to contact someone what you are not qualified with seems to be very difficult to clarify with them and who to speak to and things get mixed up very constantly. Based on this it's very hard for me to rate them very high on an organized company that can efficiently distribute much needed care to lots of people. Like I said on this level there's much to be desired on an organized way to stay in contact with people to give the best service to people when and where they need it. That being said if you're one of the people who's had blood donated when you need it Services donated when you need it and got out of medical school when it did some volunteer work for them and they got you a job as a doctor you probably have nothing but nice things to say about them being maybe the best company in the world and rightfully so. I only wish the level of skill and efficiency and dedication this organization had to saving people's lives was put into the same level of communication and effective distribution of necessary volunteers wearing when is needed without going through a headache of stuff to try and contact one person once a month for just a few minutes to figure out what's going on next. Thank you for reading

Donate blood directly to your local hospital so they don't have to buy it from the Red Cross. They use a huge portion of their donated funds to pay for upgraded call centers and executive salaries. They borderline harass their donors to give more, whether it be blood or money. There are better charities out there.

The Red Cross is an actual real charity, which is more than can be said about a top rated charity on TrustPilot, the least TrustWorthy source for reviews on Charities. For that and many other reasons, they deserve 5 stars.