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Supporting the health of communities for Red Cross Month
March became Red Cross Month over 80 years ago with a proclamation from President Franklin Roosevelt. Every American president has...
NEIA Red Cross
Mar 72 min read
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Donated Blood Saves This Young Mom After Delivery
By Janet Flanagan Imagine planning for your first-born baby, attending classes, reading books, and going into delivery expecting a...
NEIA Red Cross
Jan 234 min read
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A special Blood Donor Month
By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca This blood donor month has special meaning for Trevor Oestmann. After almost a decade of employment at the Red...
NEIA Red Cross
Jan 163 min read
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Empowering Everleigh
By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca Five-year-old Everleigh Huskey loves sparkly high heels, a troll with bright pink hair and says her favorite...
NEIA Red Cross
Dec 17, 20243 min read
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Eternally grateful for donated blood
By Janet Flanagan Tom Hildebrand is “eternally grateful” for people who donate blood. He’s alive today because of them and will soon mark...
NEIA Red Cross
Aug 22, 20243 min read
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Nice to Meet You: Nicole Miller
The American Red Cross collects 40 percent of the nation's blood supply. This means that volunteers across the country need to roll up...
NEIA Red Cross
Jun 20, 20242 min read
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A Legacy Worth Leaving: Wanda's Experience as a Red Crosser
By Chris Overman Wanda Samson’s commitment to helping others originates through her experiences growing up on a farm and in the schools,...
NEIA Red Cross
Mar 15, 20242 min read
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Fremont (NE) High School student wins Red Cross scholarship
By Ellen Heddendorf Katie Proskovec of Fremont, Nebraska, helped save lives by hosting an American Red Cross blood drive and earned a...
NEIA Red Cross
Mar 13, 20241 min read
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Volunteer Travels to the Ends of the Earth to Tell the Stories of Those Impacted by Disasters
By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca “I’m a storyteller. When I’m deployed, I tell the stories of families who are impacted by national disasters,”...
NEIA Red Cross
Mar 7, 20243 min read
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Join the Red Cross Month Celebration
This week, the American Red Cross Nebraska-Iowa Region is kicking off its annual Red Cross Month celebration in March to honor local...
NEIA Red Cross
Feb 29, 20242 min read
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Don't wait. Donate.
As snow and freezing temperatures blanket the Midwest, the Red Cross is experiencing an emergency blood shortage. The nation faces the...
NEIA Red Cross
Jan 13, 20241 min read
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Student Leaders Save Lives, Earn Scholarships
Wyatt Ludemann, of Tecumseh, Nebraska, and Paxton Mitties, of North Bend, Nebraska helped save lives by hosting American Red Cross blood...
NEIA Red Cross
Dec 12, 20231 min read
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Blood Donations Help 8-year-old Aubrey Kick Cancer
By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca Aubrey Greiner of Glenwood, Iowa, is 8 and passionate about sports. She started soccer at just 3, moving onto...
NEIA Red Cross
Dec 6, 20233 min read
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Quilt Commemorates 96 Gallons of Blood Donated
On a balmy autumn day, Doug Dewaele drove the 45 minutes from rural Iowa to Omaha, Nebraska, to give blood, as he’d done for years....
NEIA Red Cross
Oct 26, 20231 min read
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Recent Graduate and Family Grateful for Blood Donation
By Aerial Woods Meet Trey Anderson, a Midwesterner who is all too familiar with medical practices and procedures. At the early age of 4,...
NEIA Red Cross
Jul 27, 20232 min read
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“Blood donations save lives. It saved my life. It saved my children’s lives.”
By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca Trish Robinson is one of the 100,000 Americans who have sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease distorts soft...
NEIA Red Cross
Jun 13, 20233 min read
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Family to Host Community Blood and Toy Drive
By Chris Overman Five-year-old Adeline Lovell of Clear Lake and her family will “pay it forward” at an upcoming American Red Cross...
NEIA Red Cross
May 16, 20232 min read
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Blood Donor's Life Saved By Blood Donations
By Chris Overman For over 50 years, come rain, shine, sleet or harvest, Steve Harms has been there to give when the bloodmobile arrives...
NEIA Red Cross
Apr 27, 20232 min read
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Blood Brothers at Iowa State
Gannon and Jack White are brothers, and the two of them share a lot. Both are marketing majors at Iowa State. They have similar eyes and...
NEIA Red Cross
Mar 11, 20232 min read
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Giving Blood is a Family Affair
The Jones’ family ties to blood donation with the American Red Cross run deep. Jeanne, a member of the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metro Chapter...
NEIA Red Cross
Feb 27, 20232 min read
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