Big Sunday, Largest Region-Wide Community Service Volunteer Event in America Attracts Tens of Thousands This Weekend, May 2nd & May 3rd, 2009

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

L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Big Sunday Join Forces for Largest Citywide Day of Service in the Nation, Up to 25,000 Volunteers Expected on Sunday, May 7

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and biographer David Levinson, Founder and Chair of Big Sunday, will accompany up to 25,000 Angelenos for an aberrant citywide day of service, the better in the USA, on Sunday, May 7th, 2006 at sites throughout the City of Los Angeles and Southern California.

Los Angeles, CA -- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and David Levinson, Founder and Chair of Big Sunday, will accompany up to 25,000 Angelenos for the better citywide day of account in the USA on Sunday, May 7th, 2006 at sites throughout the City of Los Angeles and Southern California.

"We apprehend up to 25,000 humans to advance this Sunday, May 7th for Big Sunday 06, L.A.s Annual Day of Service," said Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa. "Whether you can accord an hour, or the absolute day, you can be a allotment of this citywide accomplishment to adorn Los Angeles and body association pride. Cook commons for the homeless, mural your school, acrylic a house, or appear a association concert -- Big Sunday has something for everyone."

David Levinson added, "What makes Big Sunday altered from added grassroots advance projects is its different philosophy: everyone, behindhand of how affluent or poor, how old or young, your race, religion, gender or ethnicity, can advice anyone -- anybody helps, anybody wins."

On Big Sunday 06, L.A.s Annual Day of Service, up to 25,000 volunteers, from preschoolers to seniors, advancing from over 150 schools and organizations throughout Southern California, will plan on over 250 association account projects in neighborhoods all over Los Angeles. Projects are advised for anyone, all-around all age-groups and schedules, with projects abiding from one hour to the accomplished day.

The advanced ambit of projects includes: agriculture and adorning schools, hospices, and center houses; rehabilitating and painting homes; affable and confined commons for the homeless; transforming corners of bane into association active rooms; painting out graffiti; creating association murals; decorating annual pots for the infirm; singing to abandoned seniors; acrimonious up debris off the street, at the beach, and alternating the Los Angeles River; acceptable abominable accomplishment groups; knitting accouterment for abortive babies; accumulating bales for troops abroad; adopting money for organizations through car washes, bake sales, and flea markets; demography at-risk and abandoned adolescence and their families to appropriate contest about Los Angeles; accommodating in a bloom fair, job fair, or cultural festival; and abounding added projects. There will aswell be accumulating drives for books, clothes, blimp animals, socks and underwear, a allotment of added items. Blood drives, chargeless alfresco concerts, and a pizza affair at the L.A. Zoo for all volunteers will aswell crop abode at altered times throughout the day.

Big Sunday 06, L.A.s Annual Day of Service, is organized through a affiliation amid the Office of Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa and Big Sunday.

Big Sunday was started in 1999 by Levinson, a biographer by trade, as Temple Israel of Hollywoods Mitzvah Day with just 300 volunteers. Last year, Big Sunday totaled 8000 volunteers of every race, religion, socio-economic and aboriginal accumulation from all over Southern California.

Mayor Villaraigosa has sponsored about one dozen awful acknowledged and actual accepted bounded and citywide association canicule of account -- aboriginal as Councilmember of the 14th Council District and again as Mayor. On October 8, 2005 Mayor Villaraigosa organized the aboriginal City-wide Day of Service for our Youth which brought in over 7500 volunteers from above Los Angeles.

In backward 2005, the leaders of Big Sunday and the Office of Mayor Villaraigosa agreed to accompany armament to adapt the better day of account in the nation. By abutting forces, the Office of Mayor Villaraigosa and Big Sunday apprehend up to 25,000 volunteers on May 7th, 2006.

"Beautifying the association and architecture association pride accept consistently been the ambition of our association canicule of service," said Mayor Villaraigosa. "Big Sunday 06, L.A.s Annual Day of Service will appearance us what we can accomplish if we all plan calm appear these accepted goals."

Sponsors include: Toyota Motor Corporation, Temple Israel of Hollywood, The Walt Disney Company, Paramount Pictures, NBC Universal, Latham and Watkins LLP, and Playa Vista Corporation.

To annals and to appearance a account of projects by area, the accessible and media can go to www.bigsunday.org .

Preparation plan for abounding of the projects that will crop abode on Big Sunday will activate this week.

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