Vote for the Red Cross! Red Cross Receives $1 per Facebook Vote    BKV, the contracted supplier for the Gift Planning Lead Generation program, is marking its 30th anniversary. To celebrate, they are awarding a total of $10,000 to five non-profit organizations-and the Red Cross is among them! BKV will donate $1 per vote on Facebook (up to $10,000), and the final amount given to each charity will be determined by your votes! Vote today...

LOCAL RED CROSS DISASTER WORKERS DEPLOYS TO JOPLIN, MO (SAN DIEGO, MAY 25, 2011) – Cruz Ponce and Amy Hegy are deploying tomorrow to Joplin, Missouri. As tornado warnings were broadcast Tuesday evening, the number of people staying in the Red Cross shelter at Missouri Southern State University jumped to 348 people triple the number the night before. In addition to operating a shelter in Joplin—where people have a safe place to stay,...

Ladies! Come build a home for a family in need! Women Build is a Habitat for Humanity program that encourages women to make a difference by building homes and communities. The program seeks to encourage women volunteers to further the home-building mission of Habitat for Humanity. Since the program’s launch in 1998, Women Build volunteers have constructed more than 1,750 homes...

Blue Thong Society keeps members feeling young and helping others By MARTIN DeANGELIS, Staff Writer | Posted: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 Mary Jo Wallo, a co-founder of the Blue Thong Society, with her specially designed Blue Thong surfboard. The Blue Thong Society is about to get some sand in its flip-flops – among other places, possibly. The women’s group with that intentionally provocative name, which claims almost 5,000...