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20th Annual Heroes Breakfast
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
7:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. CST
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For the past 20 years, we have honored individuals and groups for acts of immense bravery, dedication and service to the community. Join us in celebrating the 2022 Class of Heroes.
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Now through May 11, your gift will be matched TWICE for every dollar donated up to $100,000
Help provide immediate relief where it is needed most. We are so grateful for your generous support that powers the urgent humanitarian needs of the American Red Cross.
Thank you to our generous Matching Gift Sponsors
Edwardson Family Foundation
Susan and Nick Noyes
Karen Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr.
See how your gift could make an impact on all those who rely on the Red Cross in times of crisis. A gift of any size truly will change lives.
$10,000 can provide two nights of safe shelter for 250 people who have just lost everything due to a natural disaster, ensuring their most pressing needs of food, shelter and water are met.
$5,000 can send 16 Emergency Response Vehicles (ERVs) and volunteer drivers to a disaster - delivering water and meals directly into the hands of people who need them.
$2,500 can install more than 150 *free* smoke alarms into homes. On average, 7 people die every day from a home fire. Since this program's inception in 2014, a documented 1,201 lives have been saved.
$1,000 can help keep 22 military families connected during an emergency. Trained caseworkers operate a 24/7 phone bank to get deployed service members home, most often after the death of a loved one or the birth of a child.
$500 can provide 500 children around the world with the measles vaccination. As a founding member of the Measles & Rubella Initiative, we have led efforts to help vaccinate more than 2.9 billion children in 88 countries against this deadly disease.
$250 can provide hot meals to 25 people after an emergency evacuation, offering comfort in the difficult days away from home.
$100 can underwrite the cost to test, type and match a donated blood unit for sickle cell disease, offering relief from the severe that that 100,000 people in the United States with this condition suffer from.