New York Volunteers Make A Difference on October 26 - Dozens of Projects Take Goodwill, Needed Resources and Health Information into Communities
New York, NY – While an estimated three million volunteers will be gathering for projects to help their communities around the country, New Yorkers will be joining the effort by launching dozens of Make A Difference Day activities. Make A Difference Day, which occurs annually on the fourth Saturday of October, this year on Saturday, October 26, is the nation’s largest national day of volunteerism.
(PRWEB) October 19, 2002
New York, NY – While an estimated three million volunteers will be gathering for projects to help their communities around the country, New Yorkers will be joining the effort by launching dozens of Make A Difference Day activities. Make A Difference Day, which occurs annually on the fourth Saturday of October, this year on Saturday, October 26, is the nation’s largest national day of volunteerism.
Some New York highlights include:
• Citigroup is participating in 18 cities with volunteer projects focusing on community development, environmental stewardship and financial education. In New York, the High School of Economics and Finance located near Ground Zero is still in need of repair and Citigroup’s potential workforce of 25,000 will be there to help out. (address needed)
(Event Location – 100 Trinity Place, New York, NY – p: (212) 559-3771)
• Just as a new study on obesity reveals that 64.5% of adults are overweight, a Bronx, NY project will distribute free healthy food alternatives to fast food while trying to raise the awareness of the connection between diet, lifestyle and disease.
(Event Location – Southern Blvd. (off Fordham Rd, across from the zoo, Bronx, NY – p: (718)328-2310)
• Sheena Washington, age 14, , Spencer, age 8, will clean out their entire family’s closets, including that of their grandparents, to find treasures to donate to Goodwill Industries of Astoria. It’s their way of helping to raise money for job training and education in their community.
(Event Location – 133-20 225th Street Laurelton, New York, NY – p: (718)723-5726)
• Just across the river in New Brunswick, NJ, Wynonna Judd, along with her children, will join New Jersey Governor James McGreevey at a library to help him reach the goal of having 80,000 state employees donate 100,000 books at various locations across the state.
(Event Location – 60 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ – (732)745-5108)
Make A Difference Day is sponsored by USA WEEKEND Magazine in partnership with the Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network. Now in its 12th year, Make A Difference Day participants includes hundreds of community and nonprofit organizations that use the day to rejuvenate, clean, educate and make America a better place.
For more information or to find additional projects in the New York area, visit the Make A Difference Day Web site at www. makeadifferenceday. com.
