National Volunteer Week 2010

This week, we celebrate National Volunteer Week 2010, and our remarkable volunteers.

Bridges is fortunate to have over 1,500 volunteers accompany us on our Runs each year impacting many lives along the way. There are more than a dozen dedicated soup makers who come whether it’s December or July and stir huge caldrons of soup for every Run. We have a core group of volunteers who come in every Friday (sometimes Tuesdays too) to sort bags and bags of donated clothing. Hundreds of people drop off clothing and dozens of schools and houses of worship, businesses, girl scouts and boy scouts make brown bag lunches, breakfast bags, and toiletry kits. Let’s not forget our dedicated board that jumps in wherever and whenever they are needed. All in all, Bridges has volunteers in the thousands. When I tell people this, they think it is a hyperbole. “You mean hundreds?” they ask. No, I mean thousands.

Bridges volunteers are amazing and we could not make over 160 Runs a year, deliver 100,000 brown bag lunches, 40,000 breakfast bags, or 15,000 toiletry kits without each and every one of you.

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO and have a great week!