Day of Caring is an annual volunteer event that provides local employees and residents with the opportunity to engage in day-long community service projects. Middlesex United Way held its first Day of Caring in 1995 when 34 employees in Middletown volunteered at 5 non-profit organizations. Since that time, Day of Caring has engaged nearly 3,500 volunteers from local companies and organizations at 330 projects in towns and communities throughout the county.
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DAY OF CARING 2009
In 2009, we held Project Homeless Connect (PHC), an event that engages individuals who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness in one location and connects them with needed services. The event served as our one large-scale community-wide Day of Caring project. Read more about it >>
MORE ABOUT PROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT
PHC, a national initiative sponsored by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, originated in San Francisco in 2004 and has since taken place in more than 200 cities throughout the world. The goals are: to improve access to services and housing for individuals who are homeless; to engage and increase the community's involvement in collaboratively finding solutions to homelessness; and to provide opportunities for a better life for individuals.
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Many thanks the following individuals, organizations and businesses who provided services, volunteers, contributions, or in-kind donations to help make Project Homeless Connect a success. They are in no particular order and they all deserve our special thanks:
Saint John School - Old Saybrook; Old Saybrook Middle School; Hale-Ray Middle School; Bus 8 East Haddam; Wesley School; Lawrence School; Mercy High School; Middlesex Community College Library; Comcast; Middlesex Hospital; City of Middletown; Citizens Bank; Town of Durham; Seasons Federal Credit Union; Guilmartin, DiPiro & Sokolowski, LLC; Saint John CCD Old Saybrook; Youth & Family Services - Old Saybrook; Subway - Haddam; Children's Home; Church of the Holy Trinity; One McDonough Place; Gotta's Farm; Starbucks - Old Saybrook; The Main Switch ; Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts Center; Paul and Lisa; St. Luke's Eldercare Solutions; Rite-Aid - Middletown; Young's Printing; Select Physical Therapy - Old Saybrook; Cross Street AME Zion Church; Covenant Village of Cromwell; CT Rental Center; Harding Development; AT & T - Middletown; Lifestyle Financial Strategies; Brownstone Intermediate School; Liberty Bank; Gildersleeve School; Teens in Action - East Haddam; Portland Middle School; Farm Hill School; Independent Day School; Wesleyan University; Middlesex Community College employees; Godiva; Pratt & Whitney; Meg Plumb and friends; the Inn at Middletown; Unilever; Cooper Atkins; Spectra Energy; Village Pizza - East Haddam; Luigi's Restaurant; Thyme in a Bottle; Old Saybrook Ladies Guild; Lyman Orchards; O'Rourke's Diner; American Red Cross/ERV; Wal-Mart - Old Saybrook; Shaw's Supermarket - Clinton; Tanger Outlets - Westbrook; Old Saybrook Lions Club; Middletown Transit District; Oddfellows Playhouse; The Connection, Inc.; CHFA; Tower Labs; Middlesex Health Care Center; Crest Graphics, CT Chapter of Certified Fraud Examiners; MILES; Crowne Plaza - Cromwell; Middlesex Health Care Center; Polish Falcons; Timberland; Middletown Emblem Club.
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