Disney Parks announced their “Give a Day, Get a Disney Day” campaign to help inspire 1 million people to volunteer in Canada, the United States and Puerto Rico. Beginning January 1, 2010 Disney Parks will commemorate the volunteer spirit with a free one-day admission ticket to a Walt Disney World Resort or Disneyland Resort theme park to the first 1 million people who volunteer a day of their time. Volunteer Canada, an international partner of Hands On Network, helped bring this campaign to Canada. Working with agencies and volunteer centres in cities across the country, hundreds of volunteers were mobilized at volunteering events such as this one in Toronto. 50 000 tickets are available for volunteers participating with registered volunteer agencies in Canada.
Having just spent an afternoon at the Power of The Hour launch where the focus was placed on the significant change that can be made by just one person, in one hour, I think I can speak for all at Volunteer Toronto when I say that Disney’s Give a Day. Get a Disney Day is an enormous opportunity for individuals to volunteer for non-profits to start affect real change in their communities. The support of businesses such as Disney is extremely important to draw attention to the needs and causes that the non-profit and volunteer sector address, but the rest is up to us. Borrowing from the idea behind Power of the Hour, if 50 000 individuals dedicate 8 hours each to volunteering, that’s 400 000 hours or the equivalent to one individual working non-stop for 46 years.
Individuals can sign-up for a wide variety of volunteer opportunities by going clicking here
