Disaster Relief and Community Disaster Education
When a disaster threatens or strikes, the Red Cross is there. This year we responded to 41 local disasters, including 41 residential fires. We helped 40 affected individuals and families with emergency food, shelter and supplies.

Because being prepared can make your family and community safer and sometimes minimize injury and destruction, we provided disaster response and preparedness education information to 200 persons in the community.

Health and Safety Services
From first aid, CPR and AED training to swimming and lifeguarding, American Red Cross programs help people lead safer and healthier lives. This year, 4,619 individuals learned lifesaving skills through 774 First Aid, CPR, AED and mission-related caregiving classes offered by the chapter. In Aquatics, we taught lifeguard, parent and child aquatics, water skills and water safety instructor training to 1,481 individuals.

International Services
The international tracing program helps local families find relatives with whom they have lost contact because of a natural disaster, war or internal conflict. We help reconnect family with loved ones in foreign lands. We provided international tracing information to 3 persons and taught 10 individuals in International Humanitarian Law.

Armed Forces Emergency Services
The American Red Cross provides communication between those in the Armed Forces and their families. We have a worldwide network that reaches service members wherever they are to communicate a birth, death or illness. This year we provided emergency connections for 86 military families. We outreached 82 families of military personnel with our “Get to Know Us” Outreach Program.

Community Services
Because being prepared can make your family and community safer and sometimes minimize injury and destruction, we provided help through thousands of calls from residents for information and referral. We began an Indiana University Red Cross Club last year, which aided in several Red Cross activities such as blood drives on campus, Heroes fund raising campaign and lifesaving certifications.

Lifeline Emergency Response System
This program enables individuals with disabilities or chronic illness to live independently at home. The personal emergency response system puts them immediately in touch with help and gives family members peace of mind and assures prompt assistance is close at hand. Our program served 568 clients last year in our 10-county area.

A Note About Volunteers
We depend on volunteers of all ages and backgrounds to carry on our work. Volunteers constitute 97 percent of our total workforce, serving as members of the board, instructors teaching lifesaving skills, disaster action team members, office administrators, event organizers and more.

This year, 289 volunteers made the work of the chapter possible, contributing thousands of hours in all of our community services, as well as traveling to other regions to provide emergency services to persons affected by disasters.

Statement of Financial Position For the Year Ending June 30, 2007
BEGINNING NET ASSETS	$498,750
ENDING NET ASSETS	$537,622
Statement of Activities
TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS, REVENUES AND GAINS	507,215
Expenses and Losses
Program Services	11,697
Armed Forces Emergency Services	142,361
Disaster Services	173,796
Community Services	45,710
International Services	4,928
Total Program Services	378,492
Membership and Fund Raising	46,672
Management and General	56,232
TOTAL EXPENSES AND LOSSES	$481,396
Change in Net Assets	$25,819

For a downloadable version of this report, please see our 2007 Annual Report (PDF)