Recruit volunteers, get ideas and show off your efforts. Here are all the places you’ll find Make A Difference Day online.
Look at all the good!
Check out photos from Make A Difference Day events (and share yours!) in our photo galleries from 2010 and 2011.
See what participants are posting to the MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY FACEBOOK PAGE.
See what participants are posting to the MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY YOUTUBE CHANNEL and post your videos. Be sure to share them with Make A Difference Day, so we can favorite them!
Follow Make A Difference Day on Twitter (@mdday) and tweet your plans for this year’s event using the hashtag #mdday11.
If you are looking for projects in your area or want to start a project, please go to the DAYtaBANK.
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Here’s an idea that could touch people for their meaningful deeds in the past or currently. Countless numbers of people do not have the resources or the physical ability to join an “hands on effort” however they could send an email, write a note or send a card to someone. Perhaps they could send a thank you to someone who helped them or influenced them in their personal or professional life. A scout leader, school teacher, good friend, sports coach would be thrilled to recognized. Thanks or a greeting could be sent anonymously to nursing homes, Wounded Warrior program or the Red Cross. It’s a touching way to be involved with others and “make a difference”. Thanks for reading. Anyone can have “an attitude of gratitude”.
I desperately am in need of help with picking up my leaves. I am 64 and disabled and can find no one to help me. Someone suggested this organization. Can you help me? I live in West Chester.
Thank you.
Nancy Juracek
Your information has been passed on to the Volunteer Center closest to you.
Every year I am frustrated when Make a Difference Day comes around. There are so many of us for whom EVERY DAY is make a difference day. We often struggle w/o funding, little or meager pay, refusing to turn people away. We’re generally not splashy, get little attention. I wish people would decide that every day is Make a Difference Day. 1 out of 365? If that’s all it is, it may well be a take a one day vacation from selfishness day. It may also make people feel okay about what they do the other 364 days a year. Could we set our sites a little higher?
Put in my information for make a difference day in Elyria Ohio- We are going to the Riverfront Hi Rise but at 10 Am in the morning of the 22nd and not in the afternoon- I want to change this and it will not let me in with my e mail and password and say I am not in the system- but My project is…
I’ll forward your information to HandsOn to see if they can help.
It would be nice if something was set up to help the people in Binghamton, NY who suffered devasting loses from Irene. Hundreds if not thousands of people lost their homes, and the ones that managed to save them, have weeks/months of cleanup and repair to do. It’s nice that celebrities want to help other countries, but let them help us in the US as well. It would be really great if something could be set up….
There are currently 50 projects in the DAYtaBANK within a 30 mile radius of Elmira. Check them out at this link:
http://daytabank.handsonnetwork.org/advance-search?start=1&where=Elmira%2C+NY&op=Find+Events&submit=Find+Events&distance=30
We are trying to get our recently completed project CHOP Break A Thon, which occurred on October 16, 2011 from 11-4pm at 2828 Ridge Pike in Trooper, PA when we raised 13,000 for Childrens Hospital of PA at Toma Martial Arts breaking over 2,000 boards. We may be contacted at 610-935-2290 (Claire Nzerem).
We would also Like to submitt Photos of our teens breaking boards for Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, how can our project be included?
claire nzerem
Register your project in the DAYtaBANK (http://daytabank.handsonnetwork.org). You can share pictures in our photo gallery or on Facebook. Check the links above.
I would like to help to make a difference day.At this point, I really don’t know what to do, I’m available if someone needs me, I live in Monroe Twp. NJ 08831.
Sincerely,
Virginia Menkes
I just thought of some thing, perhaps, we could get a project started, since someone mentioned, helping people in Binghamton ( I’m sure there’s many others also) who were affected by Irene, since many of their things are gone, maybe we could raise more awarness & by collecting blankets of any weight, which I’m sure they could use with the colder weather coming upon us.I know in my community( I live in an active senior commun.) I could get this started, just need a little help,like figuring how to get them dry cleaned withour much cost, posters and such for media work and collection vehicles for transportation. I used to be very organized, but with getting older, it’s not always easy, but I’ll do it, I know we can make a difference!!
again,
Virginia Menkes
Check out the projects that are registered in the DAYtaBANK. You may be able to combine your efforts with another group. If not, be sure to register your project there.
Thought I would be able to find information on where I could lend a hand but could not find it on your website…..
You can search for projects in the DAYtaBANK.
I would like to make a difference in a hospital and give the motivational strength to young children hope and help the nurses in the hospital!
Lisa Roggio
I live in brooklyn, ny
Does anyone know of anything set up in the Tampa/Riverview area? (Florida) I would love to pass this info on to my Girl Scout troop at tonights meeting.
Check out the DAYtaBANK. There are hundreds of projects within a 30 mile radius of Tampa.
Make A Difference is Every Day in my life in Santa Monica, CA!!! So, I’m just leaving a message for my friends, The Tamblyns, to wish them sucess on the Jefferson Community Project. Yea!!!
Now, Russ, Bonnie and Amber, will you all do one of those for us??? Please, Russ, put on your TAP shoes and do a jig for the youth?
We await. In Love, Bam, a volunteer in Santa Monica, CA community, begging your support for GED program, in your hood, here in Southern California.
I would like to know about events taking part in the northern California area.
Check out the DAYtaBANK. There are hundreds of projects within a 100 mile radius of San Francisco.
I love Make A Difference Day! It got me started in a program in 1998 called Adopt A Grandparent, this program is no longer available so now I donate to a group for preemies (Heavenly Angels in Need, I am the rep for SD), my local Abuse Shelter, (SDThreads of Compassion whichi I am the SD Rep for), I adopted a soldier in Iraq, write letters to people who are seriously ill (Angels2theHeart).
Without this program I wouldn’t have gotten started helping others and I am so glad that I did.
My Make a Difference Day is now everyday and I love it.
I represent a local non profit charity that provides help to children and families in Nassau County New York. This past year, a local family created a haunted house which attracted thousands from the tri state area and all the proceeds were donated to our organization as well as a charity that assists children of firefighters facing life threatening clallenges. It is always wonderful to see who is nominated to win, however, it would be very encouraging to get some acknowledgment from you. It often serves as encouragement for others to continue to give of themselves. And while I understand the rationale behind a computer poll and vote, sometimes winners selected through the computer are not always reflective of what is truly the best, but rather may only be reflective of those who possess technological savy. Hope next year looks different for all those trying to make a difference the best way they can!
Our 7th Annual Make a Difference Rockland (NY) free event will be held Monday 10/29/2012 from 3 to 7:30pm. It is a meet and greet for the public to learn about all of the wonderful deeds performed by the non-profits and other governmental agencies. Members of the student community and general public will come to Nanuet (NY) Senior High School gymnasium in order to learn about volunteering, community service and donation opportunities. All of this being done in an effort to encourage everyone to try and “give where you live”. Organizations use the opportunity to network within their own charitable community. Charities who previously attended the event last year (nearly 80 groups) receive their invitations in the mail. New non-profit groups and other agencies are always invited to attend. Public attendance was nearly 500 last year and we hope that the attendance this year will eclipse well over 1,000.