FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

  

CONTACT:

Rachael Shaikun

Gwinnett Coalition for Health and Human Services

Phone: 678-376-7887

Fax: 770-995-1832

Email: rachael@gwinnettcoalition.org

www.gwinnettcoalition.org

 

GWINNETT COMMUNITY RALLIES FOR ANNUAL VOLUNTEER EVENT

 

Gwinnett County, GA – The Gwinnett Coalition for Health & Human Services’ annual signature event, the Great Days of Service is a one-of-a-kind community volunteer experience.  Businesses, individuals, school groups, scout troops, civic and social clubs, church youth groups and the like have signed up each year since 1999 to participate in a volunteer service project usually falling in late-October.  In 2003, there were more than 150 service project opportunities matching volunteers and resources to specific projects to benefit local charities and health and human service agencies on Friday, Oct. 24 and/or Saturday, Oct. 25.  “The number of service projects and volunteer opportunities allowed us to expand the event from one to two days of community service,” said Paige Havens, founder and chair of the Great Days of Service. 

 

Presented by Primerica Financial Services, the Great Days of Service has gotten bigger and better every year.  The annual Great Days of Service was created four years ago in the spirit of Gwinnett’s slogan, Success Lives Here. The days are designed to gain community awareness for the Gwinnett Coalition and the more than 800 health and human service agencies and organizations the Coalition represents and supports. The Great Days of Service Steering Committee works with these agencies to address specific needs that are being overlooked in the community and to complete defined service projects, while educating citizens and community leaders about the needs around them and engaging them in helping to meet those needs.

 

Local support and involvement is key to the success of the event. In recent years, Primerica Financial Services has been a lead sponsor.  Other active sponsors have been Discover Mills, Chapter 11 Bookstores, Comet National Shipping Corp., McCart Group, Scientific Atlanta, Georgia Power, Gwinnett Board of Realtors, ACT Learning Centers, Anderson, Tate, Mahaffey and McGarity, P.C., Presidio Sports Bar and Grille, Zurich, Waffle House, Nordson Corporation, Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia, Gwinnett Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, and Tillman, Allen, Greer.

 

For more information, visit the Great Days of Service Web site at www.gwinnettgreatdayofservice.org or call Rachel Shaikun with the Gwinnett Coalition for Health and Human Services at 770-995-3339 or email her at Rachael@gwinnettcoalition.org.

 

 

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