New York Cares Day

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Overview

• Community Service Day in NY

• Volunteers come out to help fix up the city’s schools

• Painted mural, fixed libraries, painted classrooms and hallways

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• Over 8,000 volunteers signed up and participated this year

• Worked to fix up 117 public schools in the city

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Goal

• To create a more vibrant and cheerful environment for students to learn in

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Participants

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New York Cares

• Over 500 flexibly scheduled projects each month

• Examples: visit sick people in the hospital, take HIV/AIDS patients to the movies, help immigrants with their English, read to homeless children, teach soccer or other sports to children living in shelters

Annual Events

• New York Cares Day (October)

• Hands on Day (April)• Winter wishes for kids

and families November/December

• Coat Drive (December)

Youth Service

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• nycares.org