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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deborah Cherry)
Wed Jun 18 10:41:54 1997
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:40:06 -0400
Reply-To: Deborah Cherry <dc30+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
From: Deborah Cherry <dc30+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:58:16 -0700
From: Nan Hawthorne <penguin@HALCYON.COM>
Subject: Make a Difference Day - LONG
To: VOLUNTEERS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
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Check out this web page for info on USA Weekend's and Points of Light
Foundation's Make a Difference Day, October 25.
http://www.usaweekend.com/diffday/index.html
Here's part of the info on it from their web page:
What is Make A Difference Day?
Make A Difference Day is the largest national day of
helping others -- a celebration of neighbors helping
neighbors. Everyone can participate. With 3 million
participants to date, Make A Difference Day is an
annual
event that takes place on the fourth Saturday of
October.
Last year, 1,042,467 people cared enough about their
communities to volunteer on that day, accomplishing
thousands of projects in hundreds of towns and helping
millions. Your project can be as large or as small
as you
wish! Look around your community and see what needs
to be done, and then send us the entry form to tell us
what you did.
Who takes part in Make A Difference Day?
Anyone. Young and old, individuals and groups, anyone
can carry out a volunteer project that helps
others. It
might be as ambitious as collecting truckloads of
clothing for the homeless, or as personal as
spending an
afternoon helping an elderly neighbor or relative. USA
WEEKEND, which created the day, features volunteers
and their projects in articles and photos in April.
What others have done on Make A Difference Day
What are the rules?
If you want to participate in Make A Difference
Day, just
make sure you participate on Saturday, October 25 in
1997. (Make A Difference Day is the fourth Saturday of
October, so in 1998, it's October 26.)
If you cannot participate on Saturday for religious
reasons, you may do your project on Sunday, October
26.
If you volunteer regularly, great! On Make A
Difference
Day, give an extra push tp your ongoing volunteer
activity. Example: Expand your regular tutoring by
creating a special event for the students, such as
a trip to
the library where they volunteer, or the
recruitment of new
students. If you don't volunteer now, here's an
occasion
to get started. You could clean up an elderly
neighbor's
house, or organize your block to replant and repair a
local park. You could visit lonely,
institutionalized kids or
elderly. You can join in on someone else's project
listed
on this web site.
If you need more than one day for your project,
still plan
to do a good part of your volunteering on Saturday
October 25, 1997. For example, if you are rebuilding a
community soup kitchen, you may have to do some
wiring the week before or some painting the week
after,
but a significant part of the construction needs to
take
place on that Saturday.
If your volunteers are together only Monday-Friday
(such
as schools and workplaces), still plan to do a good
part
of your volunteering on Saturday October 25, 1997. For
example, if students collect food for the homeless
during
the school week, get a special group of students and
teachers together on Saturday to hand-deliver the food
to homeless people or a shelter. If it rains or snows,
Make A Difference Day goes on. If your project is
outdoors, have a contingency plan, or forge ahead.
If you are an employee of Gannett, The Points of Light
Foundation and USA WEEKEND carrier newspapers,
you are invited to participate in Make A Difference
Day,
but you are ineligible for awards.
If you are selected to receive an award, you must sign
releases. The award carries a $2,000 charitable
donation. The top-10 honorees participate in an awards
ceremony and, in the past, have attended White House
events in Washington, D.C., during National Volunteer
Week in mid-April.
If you are not in America, we still invite you to
participate.
Thousands of employees of multinational corporations
have volunteered on Make A Difference Day. A large
group of Moskovites participated a few years ago. U.S.
military personnel stationed overseas are regular Make
A Difference Day volunteers, too.
If you participate but don't send in an entry form,
we can't
consider you for the $120,000 in awards and can't
count
you among the hundreds of thousands of people who
simultaneously reach out to help others.
Most important: Send in the entry form
Nan Hawthorne, Managing Director
Sound Volunteer Management
9594 First Ave NE, Box #413
Seattle WA 98115-2012 USA
206/525-2104 / FAX 206/525-3320
Volunteer "Job Hotline" 206/781-5708
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