Big Sunday is planning a Big Monday on January 21, 2018 from 10 AM – 1 PM in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Big Sunday, one of the USA’s foremost organizations connecting people through helping and opportunities to volunteer, now in its 20th year, will host its 7th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Clothing Collection & Community Breakfast on Monday, January 21, 2019 at the Big Sunday headquarters at 6111 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038, from 10 AM until 1 PM. More than 1,200 volunteers of all ages, races, religions, backgrounds and ethnicities will have fun working together to sort and fold over 30,000 items of clothing, which will be donated to several organizations. Big Sunday will also host a community breakfast for all participants. In classic Big Sunday fashion, everyone is invited to meet someone new and participate in Big Sunday’s memorable “Something in Common” photo project, a project that the organization likes to think is in the spirit of Dr. King and something he might have enjoyed.
The response to this year’s event has been remarkable. Big Sunday is at the heart of an especially popular moment because people love the idea that we’re all in it together. “We are in very fraught times. But at Big Sunday we keep finding that most people – of all ages, from all walks of life, and yes, different political bents – want to work together to make our world a nicer place and celebrate what we share,” said David Levinson, Big Sunday’s founder and executive director, and author of Everyone Helps, Everyone Wins, How Absolutely Anyone Can Pitch In. Help Out. and Give Back. to Make the World a Better Place. Considered an expert in the field of volunteerism, Levinson is consulted widely by cities, nonprofits and other volunteer groups.
Big Sunday (www.bigsunday.org) has been connecting people with opportunities to help and volunteer to do good works together since 1999. Recognized nationally, Big Sunday is one of the USA’s premiere resources for volunteering all year long. The organization functions as an efficient clearing-house of volunteerism and community engagement, organizing and facilitating a host of ways for people of every background to volunteer, and making it easy for diverse people to participate in good works together to support causes that they care about year-round. Big Sunday works as a resource that unites, hosts, and is connected with hundreds of individuals, families and communities. The USA’s biggest community service festival – A Month of Big Sundays, (MOBS) is the signature event of the organization. MOBS (formerly Big Sunday Weekend), which was started in Los Angeles and is now in several states, engages thousands of volunteers from every walk of life working together to make our communities cleaner, prettier, healthier, safer, and friendlier all month long. Big Sunday’s mission is to connect people and build community via helping and community service. Founded in Los Angeles 20 years ago by Levinson with just 300 volunteers, the organization has now completed in excess of 1 million volunteer man-hours, and over 6,000 volunteer projects worth several million dollars in donated in-kind goods and services, and skilled and unskilled labor costs. Big Sunday is driven by the belief that anyone, regardless of how rich or poor, how old or young, your race, religion, gender or ethnicity, can help someone else.
Big Sunday’s numerous initiatives include TGIW! (Thank God it’s Work!) – a program to help people who are looking for work – but are having a difficult time finding it – get temporary paid work at Big Sunday or at one of the organization’s large network of nonprofit partners (Big Sunday pays the employee, whether the temporary work is at Big Sunday or another nonprofit); the Big Sunday Emergency Fund, a special fund for non-profits and schools who have immediate needs for themselves or their clients; The End of the Month Club to address hunger; Monthly on Melrose to benefit non-profit partners; theBIGlist, an online “non-profit matchmaking microsite” where Big Sunday’s nonprofit partners post their “wish lists” and are matched with those who wish to help; a year-round  Really Big Community Calendar with over 1,200 volunteering and helping opportunities for all kinds of interests, talents, passions, and ages; We’re All In The Same Boat Project, where Big Sunday invites a diverse group of people of all ages from all walks of life for a 2-hour harbor cruise, some of whom have never been on a boat before, and all participants are asked to meet at least one new person and just enjoy each other’s company;  MM@10 and TM@10, weekly community service projects hosted in the Big Sunday offices every Monday and Thursday mornings, when people gather to meet new people, and work together while helping someone else; Corporate Days of Service, offering memorable, meaningful and made-to-order community service events for businesses large and small; SPECIAL² , a unique service giving people marking a special occasion (a wedding, bar mitzvah, birthday, etc.) opportunities to combine celebrating with giving back; The Lemonade Brigade, an easy way to join the Big Sunday family, anywhere and anytime; Big Sunday’s Youth In Action, the organization’s popular toolkit for civic-minded kids and their families; and the Annual Big Sunday Holiday Volunteering and Giving Opportunities List, which posts holiday needs and volunteer opportunities during the Holiday Season and is used as a resource by people everywhere who want to help.
Big Sunday was named by the Points of Light Foundation as one of “10 national nonprofits that are making a tremendous impact on our country’s most critical challenges by mobilizing volunteers…These organizations also demonstrate a collaborative spirit through partnerships with other organizations to help strengthen communities across the nation.”
Thanks to Big Sunday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Clothing Collection & Community Breakfast Sponsors:Â
Hillside Memorial Park & MortuaryÂ
Emerson CollegeÂ
American Business BankÂ
Wilshire Rotary Club
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