Our annual Fall Day of Caring took place last week on September 11th, in conjunction with the National Day of Service and Remembrance. We could not think of a better way to remember this day than by giving back to our community, and neither could the hundreds of volunteers who joined us. This year, volunteers gave back what equates to more than $80,000 worth of work in just one day!
More than 1,000 volunteers spent the day giving back at 40 projects across the city, including gardening projects, clean ups, assembling materials for our programs and sprucing up afterschool and Pre-K sites.
Many of the volunteers came from our corporate partners, who utilized the day to not only give back but as a great opportunity for team-building. Team members from GM and UPS assembled materials for our Play To Learn program and loaded tablets for low-income families with educational apps and parent resources. Austin Coca-Cola assisted our funded partner BookSpring with sorting books. Rockwell Automation, PBK Architects, Aspen Heights, Build-a-Sign and Liquidation Channel teamed up to prep Creative Action for their variety of youth programs.
Freescale employees worked on a variety of projects at Girlstart, the Empty Bowl Project and the Capital Area Food Bank. Farmers Insurance worked at Blackland Community Development Corporation.
UWATX’s Women’s Leadership Council, a group of our most invested women donors dedicated to our early childhood education work, spent the day at El Buen Pastor organizing the resource room. JE Dunn and Advisory Board Company worked on improving the playground and building at Mainspring Schools, while Kerbey Lane Café also got their hands dirty fixing up the teaching garden at the Sustainable Food Center. We thanked volunteers with a free lunch at UWATX after all of their hard work.
Thank you to everyone who volunteered on this year’s Fall Day of Caring and to our sponsors Freescale, Austin Coca-Cola,Kerbey Lane Café and JE Dunn–there were so many projects we couldn’t include them all! Share your experience with us on Twitter by tagging @uwatx and #UnitedCaring.
Even though our Fall Day of Caring is over, we still always have opportunities for every skillset on our Hands On Central Texas site. Find a project that speaks to you and sign up today!
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