On September 24, over 9,000 volunteers will join together with colleagues, family and friends for our annual Day of Caring. It’s an amazing day of hope, unity, action and accomplishment, the largest single day of volunteering in Washington. You can be a part of it, too!
Registration is now open, but projects are filling up fast. Right now, you have hundreds of projects from which to choose! Help paint a house for homeless families, clean and organize an area at the Union Gospel Mission for…
After Joe Cunningham drops off his 11-year-old son Patrick at school, he carefully watches the fifth grader enter a crowd of classmates. Even after all of these years of therapy, he can’t help but worry about how the children will receive his son.
Diagnosed at age 3 with autism, Patrick and his family faced an uphill battle. It wasn’t until Joe got involved with the Fathers Network, a program offered by United Way grantee Kindering Center, that he got a clear sense…
Colleen Laing, UWKC’s grant writer, is on the board of UrbanArtworks!, a Seattle nonprofit that provides pre-employment training and self-confidence to at-risk and court-involved teens through mural painting and other public art projects. “Helping at-risk teens engage in pro-social activities and build job skills is important, and doing that through community beautification is a win-win,” she says. Participants in UrbanArtworks! have much lower recidivism rates than adjudicated youth generally.
UrbanArtworks! was featured on the Today Show on July 1 as part
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Here at United Way of King County, we’ve taken the “throw noodles at the wall and see what sticks” approach to social media thus far, experimenting with different tools and projects. While some strategies have seen more success than others, each is a learning experience. In the spirit of social media and social networking, I thought I’d share some of the social media resources I have found to be most valuable. There are so many great ideas and resources out there, it’s hard to narrow the…
Have you been thinking about donating to your local food bank? Well, your mail carrier is about to make it a lot easier. On May 8th, you can take part in Stamp Out Hunger, the nation’s largest single day food drive. Letter carriers in more than 10,000 communities will collect food items and deliver them to local food banks to help some of the millions of Americans, including an estimated 16.7 million children who face hunger every day.
Here’s how you can help:
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As you may have heard, this week is National Volunteer Week. Here at United Way of King County we’ve taken this opportunity to collect stories from local organizations of exceptional volunteers. The story below was submitted by the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks / Parks & Recreation Division. Geraldine has been a Park and Trail Ambassador for 9 years. Read about how she has volunteered her time to protect and promote her neighborhood park:
Geraldine became a Park & Trail
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As you may have heard, this week is National Volunteer Week. Here at United Way of King County we’ve taken this opportunity to collect stories from local organizations of exceptional volunteers. The story below was submitted by North Helpline Emergency Services and Foodbank, an organization that offers an array of human services to the North Seattle community including health services, a food bank and baby cupboard and emergency services. Bob has been a North Helpline volunteer for ten years. Read about his impressive contributions to helping…
As you may have heard, this week is National Volunteer Week. Here at United Way of King County we’ve taken this opportunity to collect stories from local organizations of exceptional volunteers. The story below was submitted by Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS), an organization that offers a broad array of human services and behavioral health programs to Asian Pacific Americans in King County. Dongkyu Hwang volunteers as a line dance teacher at ACRS. Read what those who have worked with Hwang have to say…
As you may have heard, this week is National Volunteer Week. Here at United Way of King County we’ve taken this opportunity to collect stories from local organizations of exceptional volunteers. The story below was submitted by Outdoors for All Foundation , an organization that provides year round instruction in outdoor recreation for people with physical, developmental, and sensory disabilities. Ralph “RB” Brown has volunteered with Outdoors for All as a Volunteer Ski Instructor, Summer Program Volunteer and Board Tresurer. Read about RB’s impressive…
While not quite as funny as Dave’s Top 10 lists, it’s always interesting to me to see what types of volunteer opportunities people are most drawn to. There seem to be a few common threads (one day projects are always popular) but overall the range is pretty broad. Of the 1,398 volunteer opportunities posted to the UWKC Volunteer Website since the beginning of 2010, the following have been the most popular among visitors to our site. Interestingly, #1 of 2010 was also…
