Big Sunday, http://bigsunday.org, is the better region-wide association account and association architecture weekend accident in the United States. Founded in Los Angeles 11 years ago by David Levinson, a Hollywood-based full-time writer, with just 300 volunteers, Big Sunday now stretches from Santa Barbara to San Diego counties, to the Inland Empire, and will appoint over 50,000 volunteers this weekend. Big Sunday's adage is: Everyone Helps, and Everyone Wins. Big Sunday is apprenticed by the acceptance that anyone, behindhand of how affluent or poor, how old or young, your race, religion, gender or ethnicity, can advice anyone else. Big Sunday cuts above all amusing barriers, bringing calm bags of humans of all ages, races, religions, ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds from all over Southern California. Big Sunday is absolutely non-denominational, apolitical and chargeless - volunteers are asked to accord just their time and talent. www.BigSunday.org.
Los Angeles, CA -- This weekend, May 2rd and 3rd, marks the 11th celebration of Big Sunday, http://bigsunday.org, the better region-wide association account advance weekend in America, with Big Sunday assured over 50,000 volunteers afresh this year. Started added than a decade ago by David Levinson, a Los Angeles-based full-time biographer with just 300 volunteers, David and his aggregation now advance the better association architecture and association account accident in the United States. Big Sunday's continues to strive to be the better all-volunteer day in America, not in acknowledgment to a counterfeit or accustomed disaster, but artlessly because Big Sunday wants to body community, all above the region. This year there are over 500 Big Sunday projects, at over 300 locations allowance added than 250 organizations all above Southern California. With beneath assets than anytime before, Big Sunday will get bigger than ever, and advice even added humans than before.
At its core, Big Sunday is added than a day of volunteering -- it's aswell about association building. Big Sunday abnormally cuts above every amusing barrier, bringing calm bags of humans of all races, religions, ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds from all over Southern California, proving that absolute issues, which aftereffect people's day to day lives, in actuality do cut above racial, religious, political and aboriginal boundaries, and do advice to body accepted ground. There are advance opportunities for every passion, every talent, and every age, in all locations of Southern California. People advance individually, with their friends, families, churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, businesses, organizations or added groups. Projects are appointed throughout the weekend to plan with any schedule. Projects can endure anywhere from one hour to two days. Big Sunday's adage is: Everybody Helps, and Everybody Wins -- anyone, behindhand of how affluent or poor, how old or young, your race, religion, gender or ethnicity, can advice anyone else.
Big Sunday is absolutely non-denominational and apolitical, and admitting it's massive admeasurement and scope, it is a non-profit alignment whose projects are still run predominantly by volunteers. Everything is chargeless on Big Sunday, and volunteers of every band are asked alone to allotment their time and talent. Big Sunday projects, including all-important food and services, are adjourned by clandestine and accumulated banknote grants and in-kind donations.
On Big Sunday's past, humans accept painted, landscaped and active beggared schools, adapted and served banquet at abandoned shelters, provided a "day-of-beauty" for abandoned women at a women's shelter, landscaped adolescence centers., befuddled parties for aphotic and disabled children, sang to abandoned seniors, bankrupt up debris alternating the Los Angeles River, bathed and readied dogs for adoption, knitted accouterment for abortive babies, busy accolade for administration to abused children, and did home aliment at AIDS hospices, a allotment of a host of added things all over Southern California. Volunteers aswell took allotment in claret drives and chargeless alfresco concerts at altered times. People aswell collected, sorted and gave abroad canned food, new and acclimated clothes, books, furniture, as able-bodied as accumulating added than 2000 allowance boxes to accord to abandoned families, babies with AIDS, beggared students, aged women, and U.S. soldiers stationed overseas. Big Sunday's Green Sunday includes abounding projects for those absorbed in the environment, and Singles Sunday abnormally brings calm adorning with amusing action. Although Big Sunday is captivated over one weekend, abounding of Big Sunday's volunteers break actively complex throughout the year with the organizations they've helped. In addition, Big Sunday facilitates array of Holiday Projects amid Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. To volunteer, or to advice in added ways, amuse appointment http://bigsunday.org.
Big Sunday '09 Sponsors:
City of Los Angeles
Cheesecake Factory
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
Disney
Farmers Market
Fox Studios
Fuel Outdoor
The Home Depot
NBC Universal
ShareFest
Swimpool Supply Center, Inc.
Temple Israel of Hollywood
Time Warner Cable
Wells Fargo Bank
Zenith Corporation
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