Make A Difference Day

A national day of service celebrated annually in the month of

October in Summit County by matching hundreds of volunteers with non-profits

and schools to complete action projects

Attention All Community Members! Mark Your Calendars!

Saturday, October 13, 2001

Make a Difference Day is celebrated each October in Summit County. On this day, hundreds of volunteers will join together with the common purpose of giving back to our community by providing local non-profits and agencies with free volunteer service. Volunteer projects will range from building trails to stuffing envelopes to painting murals – whatever the need may be.

A Special Thanks! -- To the hundreds of volunteers who participated in last year's event and helped to make it such a success. We look forward to seeing you again this year.

Our Mission

Make a Difference Day, a project of Shaping Our Summit, is dedicated to creating and improving opportunities for citizen involvement and community collaboration.

Last Year's Totals

Volunteers = 500

Sites Worked = 30

Work Value = $24,000

CALLING ALL NON-PROFITS!!

Shaping Our Summit invites all Summit County non-profits to register as an official site for this year's Make a Difference Day.

Site projects last year ranged from painting and landscaping, to cleaning and office work. If you have an interesting project for your organization we’d love to do it! This event will provide the man and womanpower to your organization for the whole day! The more complex and fun the project the better. We want to make this work fun for our volunteers as well.

Your responsibility is to provide the project, the tools and supplies, and a contact person for the day of the event. In order for us to plan for the best quality at all of this year's sites we need to have them all planned well ahead of time! To register as an official project site, contact Jake Quigley at 668-4153, or by email at danielq@co.summit.co.us. For further information on Make a Difference Day call Tara Eaton at 668-4155.

For more information, please contact

Jennifer Pratt Miles

Shaping Our Summit

105 Village Place; PO Box 1829

Dillon, CO 80435

phone: (970) 513.8340 x213;

fax: (970) 513.8348; sos@merid.org

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