JOIN US!How do I start? If you want to participate, just help someone else on the next Make a Difference Day, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. If you cannot participate on Saturday for religious reasons, you may do your project on Sunday. MEET WITH US!
Community meetings Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010 and Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010, 4-5 p.m. in The Wenatchee World Columbia Conference Room, 14 N. Mission St., Wenatchee. Brainstorm, network, find projects and resources, get motivated! If you volunteer regularly, great! On Make a Difference Day, give an extra push to your ongoing volunteer activity. For 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 the 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 Make a Difference Day. 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 Make a Difference Day. 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, Hands On Network or 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 top-10 honorees participate in an awards ceremony. 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 awards and can't count you among the millions of people who simultaneously reach out to help others. Go to USAWeekend.com/diffday for more information. |
