Join us for the Day of Caring!

What better way to recognize the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 than spend the day helping the community? The United Way Day of Caring was created as a national day of action in honor of the victims of 9/11, thus the date of the one-day volunteer event this year, 9/9/11.

Last year we had 1,600 volunteers on the Day of Caring from 45 companies that run United Way worlplace campaigns. These volunteers from our workplace campaigns gave a total of 5000 hours of service, completing 79 projects.

This year we have 105 volunteer projects around Greater Grand Rapids to choose from. They range from skilled projects like holding a focus group at Safe Haven around the topic of creating a safe workplace, to getting dirty doing grounds work at Blandford Nature Center. The projects are all either morning or afternoon.

If your employer is involved in a United Way workplace campaign, talk your boss into sending a team of coworkers to participate, give back to the community and LIVE UNITED!

Click here for the project list which is updated often and the project selection form. Deadline to sign up is August 15.

Contact Emily López in the Volunteer Center for more information, 616-752-8608.