Thursday, September 26, 2013

92nd annual United Way of Plymouth County Kick Off & Day of Caring

By: Mike Lee, UWGPC Marketing Intern

Early in the morning of September 13th, 2013 over 130 excited and enthusiastic volunteers gathered for the 92nd annual United Way of Plymouth County Kick Off & Day of Caring.  It’s hard to imagine over so many friends, board members, and partner agencies with smiles on their faces at 8am on a Friday, but there they were, all of the volunteers with bright smiles dressed in their “Live United” t-shirts to show their support of United Way!

(Dennis Carman UWGPC President & CEO speaks to the volunteers)

Ocean Spray Cranberries once again graciously hosted the Kick Off event at their corporate headquarters on the Lakeville/Middleboro line.  All of the volunteers gathered in the atrium to hear Ocean Spray’s President and CEO Randy Papadellis and Signature Healthcare’s President and CEO, Kim Hollon thank the volunteers and give inspiring speeches encouraging the attendees to make a difference in the community throughout the day. 
Volunteers participating in the Day of Caring came from Enterprise Rent-a-Car, the Arc of Greater Plymouth, Hannaford Supermarkets, Traveler’s Insurance, HarborOne Bank, ITW-TACC, Signature Healthcare, Rockland Trust, Energy Pilgrim Station, and GE Oil & Gas.  The volunteers were divided in teams to help with 14 service projects ranging from painting walls to organizing supplies to planting flowers at nonprofit organizations in the greater Brockton and greater Plymouth communities.
From all accounts, our United Way’s 92nd Annual Kick Off was a great success!  Our volunteers made a real difference by helping to raise the awareness of the value of United Way of Grater Plymouth County to the communities in southeastern Massachussets.  We cannot thank our volunteers and supporters enough for helping us to achieve our mission of “uniting people, ideas and resources to improve lives.”  We hope that their “shining” examples of service will inspire others to give generously to this year’s United Way campaign!