Most of the money sent to the Red Cross will not go to help people truly in need of emergency help.
The Red Cross has many government contracts that gets their name listed as a “go to” charitable organization.
They are essentially a government agency, and frankly just syphon off desperately needed charitable funds to pay for their large and basically useless bureaucracy.
The Salvation Army does the hard, unglamorous grunt work that needs to be done “right now”, and doesn't demand media attention for doing what must be done.
And yes, I once worked in a paid, part-time position at the Red Cross.
Some truths must be experienced, to be believed.
In this...at least pay attention to experienced honorable USA military veterans of every era for the past 60 years.
Ignore the Red Cross.
That seems to be the consensus of opinion here and I've given more to the SA than to other charities on this one. The SA is my most basic charity, it was just less than clear to me that they operated well outside of the US.