United Good Neighbors Day of Caring kicks off fundraising campaign today

Published 12:01 am Friday, September 16, 2011

PORT TOWNSEND — Volunteers will spruce up community facilities during the United Good Neighbors, or UGN, Day of Caring today.

A Day of Caring celebration and the presentation of the inaugural UGN Good Neighbor Award will kick off the work day at 8:15 a.m.

Port Townsend Mayor Michelle Sandoval and the UGN board will meet for a continental breakfast and volunteer award presentation at the UGN office at Shold Business Park, 219 W. Patison St., Suite A, Port Hadlock.

UGN T-shirts will be distributed to volunteers, and Sandoval will read a Day of Caring Proclamation.

UGN Board President Ed Wilkerson and Sandoval will present the UGN Good Neighbor Award to an outstanding Jefferson County volunteer.

Then, volunteers will head out to their work sites to clean up, paint or do other work at facilities from 9 a.m. to noon.

The Day of Caring also will serve as the kickoff event for the 2011 UGN fundraising campaign.

The campaign has a goal of $240,000.

Funds will support more than 30 nonprofit health and human service organizations in Jefferson County.

To date, volunteers have been assigned to the Building Futures Program, the Tri-Area Community Center, Habitat for Humanity of East Jefferson County, the Main Street Program and the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI).

The recipient of the award will be selected from nominations submitted by UGN-funded organizations.

For more information, phone UGN at 360-385-3797 or email info@WeAreUGN.org.