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Every day, people are introducing lasting solutions to local issues. Here are a few ways volunteers are changing lives and communities.
When you volunteer through United Way, you’re joining 2.9 million people who are giving back so others can get ahead. Make a mark in your own backyard—join our global community of game changers today.
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Every day, people are introducing lasting solutions to local issues. Here are a few ways volunteers are changing lives and communities.
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Search nowEach year on and around June 21, communities around the world come together to harness the volunteer spirit and improve the conditions in which they live. In 2014, thousands of people in more than 300 communities—from Macon, Georgia to Mumbai, India—committed their time and their passion to creating long-lasting solutions that benefit everyone.
Day of Action is an opportunity for communities to come together and address the issues that matter most to them. For some, it’s stuffing backpacks full of books to encourage reading and improve early literacy. For others, it’s planting community gardens to foster civic pride and promote affordable, healthy eating. In that sense, Day of Action mirrors the work that United Way does year-round: empowering people to affect positive change in their own backyards, and across the world.
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As a key strategy to ensure children enter school ready, are successful in primary school and can gain credentials necessary to obtain a good job, United Way launched a commitment to recruit volunteer readers, tutors or mentors to support education initiatives.
Since launching this national call to action, over 353,000 individuals pledged to volunteer and more than 635 United Ways across the U.S. contributed to the call to action.