Community Care Day 2013

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COMMUNITY CARE DAY… WHAT IS IT?

WHAT

Our annual Community Care Day is a volunteer event that mobilizes hundreds of people in our area to help those in need.  Participants assist local non-profit organizations in completing a variety of projects, such as painting rooms or playground equipment, assisting clients with daily activities, repairing or building a home or facility, outdoor clean-up, stocking inventory at food pantries and resurfacting a parking lot.

Community Care Day projects are completed by students and teams of employees from companies throughout Fairfield County. Sites include community servics agencies, United Way-funded organizations, schools, playgrounds and client homes. 

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WHEN

Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 (Normal Schedule)

• 7:45 a.m.   Breakfast Rally 

• 9:00 a.m.   Leave for project sites

• 9:15 a.m.   Arrive at agencies and begin projects

• 4:00 p.m.   Volunteer work complete

WHO

Students, individuals and employees from companies throughout Fairfield County complete projects. 

WHY

Volunteers see first hand the needs in our community and how their efforts can have a positive impact on the lives

of people in need.

WHY SHOULD WE PARTICIPATE?

• Community Care Day is an opportunity to complete needed projects.
• You may recruit new volunteers to meet the needs of your agency – often Community Care Day volunteers make a long-term commitment.
• You will build relationships with local companies.
• Your organization will feel special because someone cares enough give the gift of time.

HOW DO WE GET INVOLVED?

• Mark your calendars for the next Community Care Day: September 10th, 2013

• Read the attached information and make a commitment that your agency/organization will participate.

• Volunteers download the Photo Liability Release and return it to the United Way office.

• Photocopy this PACKET and distribute the information to your staff.

• Dedicate a portion of a staff meeting to brainstorm creative projects.  Our United Way Staff would be more
  than happy to attend your meeting! 
• You may submit multiple projects, so long as you have someone who can direct each group of volunteers on Community Care Day.
• The United Way staff is available to help you develop projects.  Just simply call the United Way office.

Please develop your projects now, as most of the Community Care Day preparation takes place during the summer.

 

For additional information contact Molly Neighbor at the United Wayoffice: 653-0643 or mneighbor@uwayfairfieldco.org.

COMMUNICATION FROM UNITED WAY

• It is most helpful for the United Way to have one contact (Main Contact) at your organization.  It is also beneficial to have a project coordinator assigned to each project that you submit.  That way you will not have volunteers waiting around while your Main Contact instructs all of the volunteer groups about what they will be doing.
• The United Way will send all information to the Main Contact.  The main contact should ten distribute the information to all Project Coordinators so that they know what to expect.

Project Coordinator (person coordinating a specific project) should speak directly with the Company Coordinators (people coordinating the volunteer team for their company) as Community Care Day approaches.  It is essential those volunteers know what to expect and that both parties are prepared.  Good communication leads to very successful projects!  Have fun!

 

2012 Recap

As written by Carl Burnett Jr. of the Eagle Gazette "At the Maywood Mission in Lancaster, two groups were helping out. Fisher Catholic students Michelle Bowes, Cat Brown and Cori Walters were helping clean and organize the second-hand store and food pantry. At the same time employees with Fairfield Federal were painting a hallway in the building. One of the people working the paint brush and roller was Judy Root, president of the bank. 'We've been volunteering for these projects since the United Way began them,' Root said. 'These are community projects that improve our community and we are a community bank. It's a great way to give back to our own community.' Root said many of the employees donating their time this year have been doing it for years. 'They love it,' Root said. 'It's great to get out of the dress suits and help out.'"

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See the full article here.

 

Project sites included: 

• AHA! A Hands-on Adventure
• American Red Cross
• Art & Clay on Main
• Bremen Historical Society
• Child Advocacy Center of Fairfield County
• Community Action
  
• Decorative Arts Center
• Fairfield Affordable Housing, Inc.
• Fairfield Center for Disabilites & CP
  
• Fairfield County 211
• Fairfield County JFS-CPS Reality House
• Fairfield Heritage Trails Association
  
• Fairfield Mental Health & New Horizons
• Fairfield Union Local Schools
• FairHope Hospice & Palliative Care
• First Church of God
• First United Methodist Church
• Foundation Dinners
• Geneva Hills
• Good Shepherd Church
• Habitat for Humanity
• Lancaster Police Dept.
• Lancaster Water Dept.
• Lancaster Water Pollution Control
• Lutheran Choice Food Pantry
• Lutheran Social Services
• Maywood Mission
• Meals on Wheels
• New Horizons Youth & Family Center
• Robert K. Fox Family Y
• Salvation Army
• The Lighthouse
• West After School Center