Volunteers across Boulder and Broomfield Counties will be out in full force this Friday, August 19th, taking part in one of the largest one-day volunteers efforts in the area.
The volunteers represent local business and organizations including Amgen, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., The Boulder County Business Report, CableLabs, Covidien, Faegre & Benson LLP, IBM, Lockheed Martin, RICOH, Roche Colorado Corporation, and many more.
This year’s Day of Caring projects include:
- re-staining decks at the Bridgewalk complex for Boulder Housing Partners in Boulder
- fence-building, landscaping, and painting at the Ed & Ruth Lehman YMCA in Longmont
- planting flowers, trimming hedges and general cleaning at Bal Swan Children’s Center in Broomfield, in preparation for the first day of school
- landscaping at the Sister Carmen Community Center food bank/client services location and renovation help at Sister Carmen’s Thrift Store location, both in Lafayette
- creating Halloween bags and holiday ornaments for Meals on Wheels of Boulder clients
- wood cutting, painting and bunkhouse repair at the Girls Scouts’ Meadown Mountain Ranch in Allenspark.
The projects will be followed at 12:30 p.m. by a picnic for the volunteers at Boulder’s Gateway Park Fun Center. In addition to celebrating the volunteer spirit of our community, the Day of Caring Picnic serves as the official kickoff of Foothills United Way’s 2011 Community Support Campaign. Donations made during the annual campaign each year provide the bulk of funding for United Way’s partner programs in the community.
Gold level sponsors for Day of Caring 2011 are: Blue Mountain Arts/SPS Studios, Covidien, Faegre & Benson LLP, FirstBank, IBM, Pasta Jay’s, RICOH, and Roche Colorado. Bronze Sponsor: Lexmark International. Other sponsor: Longmont United Hospital.
