Friday, September 22, 2023
1 - 4 p.m. 
2 States - 7 Counties - Countless Transformations

Metro United Way’s Day of Action launched in 2018 to harness the spirit and power of volunteers, bringing corporate teams together to take on some of our community’s toughest challenges. Over the last five years, 2000 volunteers from 105 companies have completed 130 projects in seven counties in two states.

Thank you for building a brighter path forward and showing what it means to LIVE UNITED!

2023 Day of Action projects will take place
Friday, September 22, 2023,
from 1 – 4 p.m.

Day of Action is an unforgettable, hands-on experience. By giving your time to volunteer, we show what commUNITY can do to meet people’s immediate needs and work for a better tomorrow, ensuring positive, sustainable change across our seven-county region.

How You Can Take Action:

  1. Scroll below to discover more about each of the projects and pick the project(s) that are the best fit for your team.
  2. Decide how many participants your volunteer team will have. You will reserve the number of spots your team needs and fill in the individual names later. You will be provided with a link to share with your team. Please note, you do not have to take all the spots on a project and your company can also have more than one team and participate in more than one project!
  3. Once you’ve determined the best project(s) for your group, click on the Register button. That button will take you to our Volunteer Connection website, which is where you will complete your registration and manage your team.

Learn more about the registration process here. 

 

 

Ask Your Questions at our Team Lead FAQ Session on Thursday, August 31 at 11:30 a.m. 

If you have any questions about Day of Action, please join us on Zoom for the Team Lead FAQ call. There isn’t a set agenda for the call, we are here to answer any and all of your questions.

Zoom Meeting Link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88669426622?pwd=SjBHcmw2QU4wR21ad3ZlcHNDTHJJUT09

Meeting ID: 886 6942 6622
Passcode: 652462

 

Registration opens Tuesday, August 29th
and closes Friday, September 15th   

Projects are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. | Volunteers must be at least 18 years of age.

 

For more information: email Margaret Seifert at margaret.seifert@metrounitedway.org.

2023 Day of Action Projects

  • Arthur Kling Senior Center - Sprucing Up

    Location: Louisville, KY

    Volunteers will be gardening/landscaping, painting, hanging new blinds, building furniture and removing of trash.

    Volunteers Needed: 15

  • Center for Lay Ministries - Food Snack Bags

    Location: Jeffersonville, IN

    Volunteers will create 150 snack bags for CLM Food Pantry’s houseless clients.

    Volunteers Needed: 8

  • Kentucky Refugee Ministries - Donations Warehouse Support

    Location: Louisville, KY

    Volunteers will help sort donations ensuring that good quality items are being sent to refugee homes, and organize items within the warehouse so they are easily accessible.

    Volunteers Needed: 15

  • New Directions Housing Corporation - Repair Affair

    Location: Louisville, KY

    Volunteers will assist elderly and/or disabled homeowners with exterior painting, minor home repairs, and yard work.

    Volunteers Needed: 15

  • Zoras Cradle LLC - Project Beautify

    Location: Louisville, KY

    Volunteers will be organizing and redecorating the resource center making it an inviting and well oraganized environment for families who need resources such as diapers, lactation supplies and to other needed supports. Volunteers will also create care packages for parents in need.

    Volunteers Needed: 6

  • ACE Project - Painting

    Location: Louisville, KY

    Volunteers will paint a couple of rooms in the community maker space, an office and an additional room.

    PROJECT FULL

  • Americana World Community Center - Natural Outdoor Classroom

    Location: Louisville, KY

    Volunteers will build an outdoor classroom which will help to instill a passion for learning, nature, and creativity in our children. Playing with water, plants, bugs, rocks, mud, etc. Breathing fresh air! All while learning the skills needed for school but in a fun, non-stress way.

    PROJECT FULL

  • Blackacre Nature Preserve & Historic Homestead - Education Nature Center landscape renovation

    Location: Louisville, KY

    Volunteers will be renovating the outdoor space at the education nature center to align with our mission of educating children in nature.

    PROJECT FULL

  • Blue River Services, Inc. - 1st Albany Beautification

    Location: New Albany, IN

    Volunteers will be cleaning up the entrance walkways of the 1st Steps office. Work includes removing chipping paint and repainting the handrails and pressure washing the walkways.

    PROJECT FULL

  • Centro Latino - Sprucing Up

    Location: Louisville, KY

    Volunteers will repaint the front entrance of our building and help us clean area rugs to help freshen up our space.

    PROJECT FULL

  • Day Spring - Day of Action

    Location: Louisville, KY

    Volunteers will gather to help make Day Spring a better place to be. Together we will improve the atmosphere of each living area. Tasks will be assigned that day.

    PROJECT FULL

  • First Gethsemane Center for Family Development, Inc. - CFD ground cleaning

    Location: Louisville, KY

    Volunteers will be cleaning out the landscaping, cutting back bushes, pulling weeds, cleaning out the play area, etc.

    PROJECT FULL

  • Franciscan Kitchen - Kitchen Deep Clean

    Location: Louisville, KY

    One group of volunteers will help us clean the cooking, prep, and serving areas of our facility (indoors). Another group will clean the outdoor dining areas.

    PROJECT FULL

  • Oldham County American Red Cross - Painting

    Location: La Grange, KY

    Volunteers will paint a sign, garage door, and waiting room at the Oldham County Red Cross office.

    PROJECT FULL

  • Our Place Drug and Alcohol Education Services, Inc - Brighten Up Our Place

    Location: New Albany, IN

    Volunteers will paint an intake office and single-use bathroom, install new lights in our education room, and do some general cleaning.

    PROJECT FULL

  • Play Cousins Collective - Office Odyssey: A Grand Move to New Horizons

    Location: Louisville, KY

    Volunteers will help prepare our new office space, a crucial step in ensuring our continued impactful work within the community. Your support will directly contribute to our mission’s success. Together, let’s transform our new office into a hub of innovation, collaboration, and lasting change.

    PROJECT FULL

  • Saint Bernadette Diaper Bank - Diaper Wrapping

    Location: Louisville, KY

    Volunteers will be counting, tagging, wrapping, and bagging diapers to prepare them for distribution.

    PROJECT FULL

  • Second Chances Wildlife Center - Enclosure upkeep

    Location: Mount Washington, KY

    Volunteers will put a protective stain coating on the wood in an outdoor tortoise enclosure, as well as put mulch down on a pass volunteers rarely take back and forth from the building to outdoor animal enclosures.

    PROJECT FULL

  • West End School - Mural Painting

    Location: Louisville, KY

    Volunteers will be painting a large mural at the school.

    PROJECT FULL

  • YouthBuild Louisville - Organizing Alumni Center

    Location: Louisville, KY

    Volunteers will be moving furniture and large equipment and assisting in the garden.

    PROJECT FULL

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