The American Red Cross is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1881 by Clara Barton. “For more than 122 years‚ the mission of the American Red Cross (ARC) has been to help people prevent‚ prepare for‚ and respond to emergencies” (FEMA / Ready.gov‚ 2012). The focus of their mission is to assist people who have been affected by disasters with the help of volunteers and the generosity organizations’ and individual’s monetary donations. The assistance the Red Cross provides is through shelter
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The Red Cross The Canadian government and individual Canadians are also frequent supporters of international aid initiatives to assist people in war torn or developing nations. Canada has also been a key endorser to many international treaties and plays a very important role in promoting positive change socially and physically. We all probably have heard about the Red Cross. Some of us might have seen it in action helping people in need all over the world. Red Cross is an international
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The Importance of The American Red Cross During World War Two The American Red Cross is an emergency response organization that was founded by a historical-well known woman named‚ Clara Barton in 1881. The American Red Cross were not only care takers but they also delivered personal messages and packages to military families. Sending important urgent information to the loved one’s of American soldiers. Blood donations were taken by the American Red Cross allowing blood and plasma to be given to the
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The main ethical issue inside the American Red Cross is the general trust of employees and volunteers and believing that they have the same ethics and values that are needed to be in place in this nonprofit organization. For years‚ there has been a total lack of accountability when it comes to donations‚ supplies or equipment that is needed during an emergency. There are no checks and balances in place and the organization is far from transparent as to where the funds or equipment is going. A recent
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The American Red Cross is an organization that makes available the emergency assistance to people around the world who are in need of help. Its mission is to make suffering less severe while the volunteers promote compassion and welfare of humanity. After serving as a Red Cross volunteer in Europe in 1870 caring for the injured of war‚ Clara Barton embraced the idea of humanitarian aid for victims of misfortune and started the concept in the United States in 1881. The organizational structure consists
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enough capacity to receive donations. The American Red Cross has questions of ethical issues and of these ethical issues it is present to doubt whether or not the company can be looked at as trustworthy with donations as they are known to lack in the capacity for online donations. The company decided to solicit donations during 9/11‚ but lacked the capacity for online donations. Once hurricane Katrina hit the United States‚ the American Red Cross once again failed in the capacity needed for online
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The visual artifact I choose to rhetorically analyze is the "super racist" Red Cross safety poster. This visual artifact was introduced into the mainstream media on June 27‚ 2016‚ after it spread throughout Twitter and sparked for being racist. The goal of this poster was to introduce pool/swimming safety to children across the nation. The poster was posted in two Colorado pools in Salida and Fort Morgan. This poster displayed safe and unsafe actions of children playing in the pool‚ titled "be cool
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1. Explain the possible problems in the ethical culture of the Red Cross that created the issues discussed in this case. One of the possible problems in the ethical culture of the Red Cross that creates issues is because it is a charitable organization‚ its leaders have assumed that all employees and volunteers will act ethically. Although this has been disproven many times recently‚ the Red Cross still has not taken all necessary steps to ensure that it is truly a socially – conscious and ethically
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industry must have oversight over the program” (Ferrell‚ Fraedrich‚ & Ferrell‚ 2015 p. 114). Currently‚ the American Red Cross (ARC) has sighted major issues with the APC practices of collecting blood donations (Strom‚ 2008). Furthermore‚ Eric Blumberg‚ the FDA’s deputy general counsel‚ stated “if fear is a motivator‚ we’re happy to help out in that way”- when he attend a closed Red Cross
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There are many possible ethical issues in the culture of the American Red Cross that created the problems discussed in this case. The American Red Cross failed at delivering organizational transparency. This failure allotted to employee embezzlement‚ unorthodox executive compensation‚ and employee misconduct. The organization experienced a high turnover. With this high turnover rate‚ deemed lavish executive compensation payouts. The organization’s reputation and culture has been further tarnished
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