The United Way fundraising drive begins with a day of service to our community!
The region-wide United Way fundraising campaign will begin with the largest one-day volunteer service event in the region, United Way's Day of Caring. Day of Caring is scheduled for Friday, September 12, 2008. Sign-up registration for volunteer organizations is taking place now, through the end of July!
To sign your nonprofit agency or workplace organization up for Day of Caring, simply send an e-mail to dayofcaring@uwmidsouth.org with your Day of Caring leader's contact name, phone number and address information. You will receive an e-mail from United Way with information to get you started with Day of Caring, and we will be contacting you by telephone. IMPORTANT NOTE: Day of Caring has been created to match workplace organizations with nonprofit agency worksites. We encourage volunteers to participate as part of organizational workgroups rather than signing up individually!
During Day of Caring, employees from organizations across the region will sign up to help our community’s nonprofits and improve people’s lives with a variety of activities. In the past, these activities have included:
Assisting with picnics, field days, shopping trips, talent shows, carnivals and parties; preparing lunches, playing games, painting faces, fishing, baking, creating centerpieces, planting gardens, sewing, working together to make ornaments and crafts, serving ice cream, judging a fashion show, installing smoke alarms, delivering meals, reading, puppet shows, educating youth about careers; even joining a dance contest or basketball game.
Construction & Repair - such as erecting fences, storage units or gutters; garage door repair, installing wheel chair ramps and railings, assemble decking, shelves or cabinets; repairing cement steps, replace flooring; even framing and finishing doors and windows.
Landscaping, Cleaning and Organizing - such as planting gardens, tilling soil, tending flowers, digging for shrubs or trees, tree trimming, replenish playground gravel, tidying trails, or perhaps the seeding agency lawns. Trash pickup, washing windows or outer walls, sweeping, emptying gutters, brush removal, and yard work duties including raking, mowing, edging, weeding.
Interior Clean & Organize - such as cleaning toys, organizing supplies, deep cleaning various rooms including mopping, scrubbing walls, vacuuming or dusting.
Painting - such as interior or exterior walls, trim, fencing or furniture; scraping or patching walls; even moving furniture in preparation.
(These are examples of past projects. Projects vary every year, based on the needs of nonprofit programs across the Mid-South.)
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