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More Than 1,200 Volunteers Participate in United Way of Southern Kentucky’s Seventh Annual Day of Caring

(July 29, 2015) – Wednesday, July 29, 2015, marked United Way of Southern Kentucky’s seventh annual Day of Caring. As a result of this program, more than 1,200 volunteers representing more than 80 companies and organizations across Allen, Barren, Butler, Logan, Simpson, and Warren Counties joined local non-profit organizations to complete more than 80 projects! This total represents an increase of more than 200 volunteers and 10 more projects over the 2014 Day of Caring.

The United Way Day of Caring is a structured volunteer opportunity that provides participants with a peek at volunteering. As part of the Day of Caring, businesses and organizations can make a commitment to offer their employees a chance to "step away from their desks" to provide hands-on, volunteer labor for a wide variety of projects.

Over 60 volunteers showed up at Morgantown Care and Rehab to visit with and engage with residents.  Kiana Coleman organized the event for Butler County. 

Over the last few months, volunteer teams participating in the Day of Caring have selected their projects based on the information provided at www.unitedwaydayofcaring.com on a first come, first serve basis. Following in line with United Way’s new Community Impact focus, this is the first year that all Day of Caring projects impacted only issues in Education, Income, Health, and Safety Net.

“Every day, life in southern Kentucky is made a little bit better by the caring spirit of tens of thousands of volunteers who work with United Way. On July 29th, more than 1,200 of them took their caring spirit one step further and joined the United Way Day of Caring movement. They completed over 80 projects for local nonprofits throughout our communities – important projects that many of these nonprofits would probably not have completed this year because of limited budgets, staffing, or simply time. I’m incredibly humbled by the compassion of all of our volunteers, and cannot think of a better way to describe what it truly means to LIVE UNITED,” said Steve Wallace, President & CEO of United Way of Southern Kentucky.

The following projects were completed by the following volunteer groups (volunteers have committed to completing any projects that remained incomplete at the end of the Day of Caring on a different date or rescheduling in full any projects left undone as needed due to inclement weather):

Butler County: Project completed by more than 60 volunteers:
PROJECT IMPACTING HEALTH:
Morgantown Care and Rehabilitation Center Senior Residents Visiting Day: PBI Bank, Butler County Jail, Butler County Library, Community Action of Southern Kentucky, KY YMCA Youth Association, Butler County Farm Bureau Insurance, Butler County Water, and several individuals.