International Services

In Fiscal Year 2022, the American Red Cross contributed millions to the global Red Cross network to help alleviate the suffering of those impacted by the Ukraine crisis like Maksim and Artem. This support allows teams on the ground to provide lifesaving aid, such as food, shelter, water, medical care and mental health support.

International Services Highlights

July 2021–June 2022

More than 1.6 million households were visited to encourage measles and rubella vaccination.

More than 4,600 families separated by international crises were reconnected.

36 countries were supported by disaster response.

More than 113,000 individuals were reached through disaster preparedness activities.

Brothers Artem and Maksim stay at a Red Cross shelter, where they can just be kids after fleeing their home in Ukraine.

Bill Ritter Master of Ceremonies

Bill Ritter started at Eyewitness News in June 1998 anchoring weekends while working full time Monday through Friday for ABC News and 20/20 as a correspondent.

He started anchoring the 11:00 p.m. newscast on Eyewitness News in October 1999 succeeding the great Bill Beutel, and then added the 6:00 p.m. newscast in February 2001. He has covered, for Eyewitness News and ABC News, the big and important events since 1992 when he joined ABC as founding co-host of “Good Morning America/Sunday.”

Earlier in his career, Bill, a native of Los Angeles, reported on the Rodney King trial and the subsequent Los Angeles riots for the Fox Television Network. From August 1991 through February 1992 Ritter also served as a reporter for the Fox Network’s nationally syndicated show Entertainment Daily Journal (E.D.J.); and from February 1990 to August 1991 was an investigative reporter for KTTV-TV (Fox Television) in Los Angeles. He also was an anchor for the station’s Gulf War coverage.

He began his television career as a business and then investigative reporter for KNSDTV (NBC affiliate) in San Diego from February 1987 to January 1990.

Bill began his career in print journalism in 1972. He served as a reporter and then business editor of the San Diego County edition of The Los Angeles Times from February 1984 to January 1987. He also worked as a reporter and editor for the San Diego Business Journal from June 1980 to January 1984.

Additionally, Ritter served as a board member and then chairman of Crash, Inc., a nonprofit drug education and prevention organization in San Diego, from 1980 to 1990. He also was on the San Diego State University Business School advisory board in 1984 and 1985.

Ritter attended San Diego State University from 1968–1972. He was kicked out of school for demonstrating against the Vietnam War. Forty years later he went back to college, graduating from The New School in May 2016.

Betsy Alexandre is a charity auctioneer at Christie’s Auction House. She earned her B.A. in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has worked for Christie’s ever since. She currently works as a project manager on the Christie’s client experience team, where she spearheads a variety of global digital initiatives.

We congratulate the people who dedicate their lives to making a difference. As a company committed to unlocking potential for all, we are honored to be recoginized alongside John B. Osborn, Humanitarian Award recipient; Fritz Sam, Good Samaritan Hero; Corian Evans, National Hero and Davyon L. Johnson, Youth Humanitarian Hero.

BNY Mellon is proud to support the Heroes Among Us Gala and the mission of the American Red Cross. bnymellon.com