MLK Day Photos

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MLK Day Thank you!!

Met Council, our Volunteer Department and I personally want to thank all of our volunteers who came out to support us and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream yesterday! The official count is not in yet, but we had about 100 volunteers, at times it was crazy, but Stefanie was very organized and the volunteers were very efficient! We sorted through an untold number of bags of donated clothes and shoes, that are now nicely hung in our closet for clients to take. We cleaned and rearranged the Crisis Services waiting room. We decorated and hung bulletin boards, flyers and framed posters. We painted our main hallway, that will now impress clients and donors a like. Everyone did a stellar job , we were very luck to have such an amazing group of volunteers!

Photos to follow!

Rewards

Starbucks, love them or hate them, is rewarding people for good public service. On election day they gave out free coffee to anyone who voted, this week, if you pledge to volunteer 5 hours in the next year they will give you a free coffee (or tea)!

We still need volunteers

Since 1994 when Congress declared Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a National day of volunteer service, we have been celebrating Dr. King's vision by making his birthday a day on, not a day off. Due to such an emphasis on service by the Obama administration, this MLK Day is shaping up to be the largest day of service ever in the Unites States!

At Met Council we are having a full day of volunteer activities. In the morning we are sorting donated clothing and working on making our Crisis Services waiting room more family friendly.
In the afternoon we will be making our main hallway brighter and fresher by adding a fresh coat of paint.

We still need volunteers to help paint in the afternoon. We will be painting starting at 2PM on the 21st floor. Let me know if you can come!
Hopefully we will see you there!

ahowe@metcouncil.org or 212.453.9619

More MLK Day!

USAService is sponsoring a video contest on YouTube about what service means to you. Unfortunately I didn't find out about this until right now to let you guys know about it so you can enter (the deadline is in 12 hours! you can still do it!) and win, but watching the results might be interesting (as of now no one has uploaded their submissions onto the YouTube Inaguration page that I can see). The winner of the best video will recieve a call from Michelle Obama!

Checkout USAtoday's article on their prediction that Monday will be the largest day of service in the US ever.
What are you doing to participate? I will be helping organize the volunteers that come to Met Council to brighten our hallway with new paint, sort through donated clothes and make our Crisis Services waiting room more family friendly.

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Following us on MLK Day

On MLK Day we will be tweeting our progress and activities to Twitter MLKDay. This a nation wide activity with many volunteers participating in sharing their activities with the rest of the country. It is also going to be a highly watched event, with CNN and the Inauguration Commity following the tweet updates and checking out the photos on Flickr. Updates will also be posted on the MLKDay Facebook page. This is pretty exciting! January 19, 2009 is shaping up to be the largest National day of service the US has seen. Follow our progress, and the progress of thousands of other volunteers!