Volunteers aid nonprofits with Day of Caring projects
More than 1,000 volunteers from area businesses, community groups and universities took park Friday in Foothills United Way’s 21st annual Day of Caring in Boulder and Broomfield counties, donating their time, talents and muscles to do projects for 40 different nonprofit agencies.
In Longmont, 20 volunteers from Xilinx Inc. worked with the Long-Term Flood Recovery Group to lay sod at a mobile-home park’s playground in Longmont that had been damaged in the September 2013 floods, while 74 people from IBM, GE Oil & Gas, Home State Bank and Hewlett Packard did yard work at the Ed and Ruth Lehman YMCA, and Premier Members Credit Union, CableLabs and Cummins Rocky Mountain wielded paintbrushes at OUR Center.
Forty volunteers from Ball Corp., IBM and Lockheed Martin worked on crafts for children at Meals on Wheels of Boulder, while 36 from Ball, IBM, Covidien and the Faegre Baker Daniels law practice repaired a shed, maintained the grounds, cleaned the kitchen and spruced up the surrounding neighborhood at the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless. Ten volunteers from Covidien were assigned to build a “horse playground” at Colorado Horse Rescue, west of Hygiene.
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WomenGive, a program of United Way of Larimer County, was started in Larimer County in 2006 as an opportunity for women in our community to come together to help other women.
After their morning of work, the volunteers gathered for a picnic lunch at Gateway Fun Park in north Boulder.
In recent years, the Day of Caring has been scheduled to align as closely as possible with the National 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance, which sprang from the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States.
More than 1,000 volunteers from area businesses, community groups and universities took park Friday in Foothills United Way’s 21st annual Day of Caring in Boulder and Broomfield counties, donating their time, talents and muscles to do projects for 40 different nonprofit agencies.
In Longmont, 20 volunteers from Xilinx Inc. worked with the Long-Term Flood Recovery Group to lay sod at a mobile-home park’s playground in Longmont that had been damaged in the September 2013 floods, while 74 people from IBM, GE Oil & Gas, Home State Bank and Hewlett Packard did yard work at the Ed and Ruth Lehman YMCA, and…
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