Make A Difference Day

Behind the ideas and efforts toward building a better world, volunteers fuel a movement of compassion and connection. Each year in October this movement engages our community and our nation in service on National Make A Difference Day. This National day of service is the larges of its kind, annually over 3 million American work together to complete community based projects through volunteer efforts. These projects have the combined goal of uniting our community as neighbors and beautifying the places we live and work.

This year HandsOn Central California, in partnership with the City of Fresno and sponsored by Heald College, will be doing a Community Revitalization project in the Lowell Neighborhood in Southwest Fresno. This neighborhood is the gateway to our downtown, filled with historic homes and Fresno landmarks. It is Fresno's vision that this community thrive!

On Make A Difference Day - 500 Volunteers are Needed:

Projects Include: Clean-up & beautification of Belmont Avenue from Blackstone to Fulton Street; beautification of Lowell School; paint touch-ups; clean-up of 80 vacant lots. Help us plant daffodils as a symbol of hope and renewal. There are also projects in West Fresno and a soccer clinic at Lion's Park sponsored by Fresno City Council Member Blong Xiong.

To Volunteer CLICK HERE

Or contact: Joseph Cody - HandsOn Central California - 559-237-3101
Email: jcody@handsoncentralcal.org

Other Supporting Partners:

CSUF Construction Management, Every Neighborhood Partnership, Fresno Institute for Urban Leadership, FUND, Habitat for Humanity, Lowell Neighborhood Resource Center, The Central California Black Chamber of Commerce, The City Council of Fresno, The City of Fresno Department of Public Utilities, The EOC Local Conservation Corps & AmeriCorps Safe & Proud Neighborhoods

Come join our Mayor Ashley Swearingen and Fresno City Council President Cynthia Sterling for our Make A Difference Day Kickoff Event at Lowell Elementary School. Kickoff starts at 8:00am.

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