Days of Caring ®

Day of Caring® is a community-wide expression of the power of volunteering! It is a day of hands-on, volunteer initiatives in which United Way connects volunteers from businesses, corporations, union groups, and/or donors with non-profit organizations in their communities to complete various projects that may not otherwise be done without the support of the community.

During Day of Caring®, agencies are matched with volunteers who are recruited from the community. The volunteers from workplaces are given time off by their employers and spend the day working on projects or doing assignments under the supervision of agency staff or volunteers. Volunteers from organizations gain insight into agency’s services, and how such agencies make a difference our community.

Projects are submitted by agencies and can be a half day or full day projects. Most volunteers want their Day of Caring® experience to be different from their day-to-day work. Our research strongly suggests proposals that are strictly administrative or clerical in nature are not that popular.

Projects include:

• Interior/exterior painting
• computer training
• arts and crafts
• fall clean up
• building of sandboxes
• interior/exterior renovations that don’t require building permits
• electrical, plumbing
• drywall
• landscaping
• spring house cleaning
• organizing of garages/building shelves
• planting/taking out gardens
• nutritionist preparing/teaching healthy meal planning
• collection of supplies for shelters i.e. clothing, toiletries, dry food goods, school supplies, backpack program
• sorting; organizing (e.g., food bank, clothing exchange)
• painting murals

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