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Join Hands Day

January 01, 1970

Join Hands Day is the first Saturday in May. It is a national volunteer day and annual event sponsored by the American Fraternal Alliance.

Background edit

The day was launched by what was then called America's Fraternal Benefit Societies in 2000, in partnership with Points of Light Foundation. It is meant to have a focus not just on volunteering, but also on developing youth and adult relationships.[1][2][3][4]

For the first two years of Join Hands Day, organizations were asked to register their Join Hands Day projects via the official web site. In some years, a certain number of groups were chosen to receive a cash award for the beneficiary of their project or another cause and a physical award, and were recognized at the National Fraternal Congress of America (NFCA) annual conference. It was not always on the first Saturday in May; the 2001 day was held on June 16.[5]

Organizers of Join Hands Day offer participants ideas for group volunteering events that can bring adults and youth together in community service, such as repairing bicycles to give disadvantaged children and teaching bicycle maintenance, collecting chairs of various shapes and sizes to paint and then auction for a worthy cause, or repairing gravestones and improve landscaping in a cemetery and documenting historic grave sites.[6]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Join Hands Day web site, Aug 19, 2000 version, published at www.joinhandsday.org/main.html, archived at Internet Archive, accessed June 23, 2016
  2. ^ Join Hands Day 2014 brochure 2017-05-10 at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 23, 2016
  3. ^ Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Join Hands Day page 2017-02-06 at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 23, 2016
  4. ^ Assured Life Association Join Hands Day page 2020-10-08 at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 23, 2016
  5. ^ Join Hands Day web site, Aug 3, 2001 version, published at www.joinhandsday.org, archived at Internet Archive, accessed June 23, 2016
  6. ^ 50 Great JOIN HANDS DAY Project Ideas that Work 2017-05-10 at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 23, 2016

External links edit

  • Official website

January 01, 1970
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