Make a Difference Day 2010
Albuquerque and Rio Rancho
October 22nd and 23rd, 2010 (Friday and Saturday)
Make a Difference Day, the largest national day of helping others is celebrated each year on the fourth Friday and Saturday of October and it has become the nation’s largest day of volunteering, thanks to the passion of millions of people like you. The Center for Nonprofit Excellence at United Way of Central New Mexico is supporting the Make a Difference Day volunteer team.
Be one of over 4,000 volunteers or 300 nonprofit organizations participating in the 2010 local Make a Difference Day. Register a volunteer project to have the project added to the list below. Volunteer teams can sign up after September 13. To sign up a volunteer team simply open the relevant listing below and follow the instructions to fulfill a project. Questions: Teresa Branom 505 845-4088 or mdd@doeal.gov.
| Organization Name | Description |
Work Needed |
City | Number of Volunteers Needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alta Mira Specialized Family Services | Alta Mira Arts, a new program, needs volunteers to photograph art produced by people with developmental disabilities and to help the artists to practice talking about their art to prospective buyers. | Tutoring/Education/Reading | Albuquerque | 2 - 4 |
| NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) ABQ, Westside and UNM Department of Psychiatry | Parking cars and directing traffice before event and clean up after event/reception. | Special Event Support | Albuquerque | 4-6 |
| Enlace Comunitario | Enlace Comunitario needs volunteers to help set up for our Ten Year Anniversary Celebration and to help us at the event from 6pm to 9pm. | Special Event Support | Albuquerque | 10-15 |
| Keshet Dance Company | KDC needs help sewing costumes for the performance of Nutcracker on the Rocks. Volunteers with sewing experience are preferred, but most tasks will be sewing basics that can be quickly learned. | Special Event Support | Albuquerque | 10 |
| YWCA Middle Rio Grande | The 4th STAND DOWN event - 1,500 homeless veterans expected. We have a station for women. Others provide employment/benefit help, showers, haircuts, flu shots, hygiene kits, clothes, hot meals/food. | Special Event Support | Albuquerque | 10 |
| Crossroads for Women | Crossroads for Women needs 1-3 face painters for our annual Halloween Party. Some basic artistic skills needed along with willingness and ability to engage children in this activity. | Special Event Support | Albuquerque | 1-3 |
| Prizm Foundation | Prizm Foundation / Racine Kreyol Cultural Arts GolfCause event for Haiti shelter relief. assist the tournament mgr with info distribution,emerg shelter demo on Oct 22, bldg dissassembly on Oct 23 | Special Event Support | Albuquerque | 10 |
| Albuquerque Children's Water Festival | Each year 1,000 fourth grade students attend this event to learn about the water through hands-on activities. Volunteers act as a guides for student groups and can participate one day or two. | Special Event Support | Albuquerque | 5 each day |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central NM | We would love to have a group donate some candy and candy bags to pass out to the kids at the event, we would need between 250-300 bags with candy in each. Thank you! | Special Event Support | Albuquerque | 5-10 |
| All Faiths Receiving Home | Paint and stain around windows and doors. Stain porch supports and bus stop cover. Paint curb yellow. | Painting | Albuquerque | 6 to 8 |
| Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice | Paint walls in our kitchen and two bathrooms. | Painting | Albuquerque | open |
| La Buena Vida, Inc. | Painting waiting rooms and hallway. PLEASE NOTE - THIS PROJECT IS IN BERNALILLO NM. | Painting | Rio Rancho | 2+ |
| New Life Homes | Volunteers will paint courtyard gates and storage doors in the courtyard areas for our residents with disabilities (approximately 30 courtyards). | Painting | Albuquerque | 15 |
| Deptartment of Senior Affairs/Home Chores | Painting ext home and light yardwork,cutting weeds and raking.Senior Affairs will supply all materials | Painting | Albuquerque | 15-20 volunteers |
| Silver Horizons New Mexico, Inc. | Silver Horizons will be scraping, prepping and painting the trim on the home of an elderly couple (78 and 83 years) in Tijeras. Also some yard work and window weatherization will be done. | Painting | Albuquerque | 12 (we have 5 already signed up) |
| Presbyterian Hospital | Project:Hospital Buddy Dolls-sew some plain muslin dolls for kids! | Other | Albuquerque | Open |
| Presbyterian Hospital | Make some simple fun tray favors for patients: Thanksgiving: napkins, hats, leaves; Winter Holidays: stockings, snow people, trees, sled, snowflakes;Valentine: hearts | Other | Albuquerque | Open |
| NMPCR/Michael's Place | Playground fence rebuild using ready to mount wood panels, paint benches and picnic table and paint and decorate playground wall. | Other | Albuquerque | 25 |
| The Storehouse | General Volunteers to run the daily process of helping our clients shop in the food court. | Other | Albuquerque | 10 |
| Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico | Volunteers will be packing food boxes and re-packing bulk items! | Other | Albuquerque | 300 |
