Red Cross braces for huge cutbacks at headquarters

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald/Associated Press

Red Cross braces for huge cutbacks at headquarters
The American Red Cross is going to cut 1,000 jobs at its national headquarters amid a severe cash shortage.
Posted on Sat, Feb. 02, 2008D
By DAVID CRARY
Associated Press

In its freshest set of troubles, the American Red Cross is cutting a third of the 3,000 jobs at its national headquarters in an overhaul intended to eliminate a $200 million deficit within two years.

The charity's board of governors gave general approval to the cutbacks in January, and details of department-by-department layoffs will be presented to the board later this month, chief public affairs officer Suzy DeFrancis said.

DeFrancis said employees in each department are being informed of the cutbacks in individual and group meetings.

LATEST BLOW

The budget crisis is the latest blow to the 126-year-old Red Cross, America's foremost disaster-response organization, which was criticized for its handling of donations contributed after the Sept. 11 attacks and for an inconsistent response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.



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[stox]

1. Maybe, just maybe

The Red Cross will figure out that it needs to spend money on it's mission, and not it's executives. I stopped giving to them long ago.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. wasn't the president earning

close to 2.7 million, and the board of directors averaging 500k each?

or was that another "charitable organization"?

[uppityperson]

3. Yup. k&r

I quit during the post Katrina fiasco.