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Make A Difference Day is the most encompassing national day of helping others. Held annually on the fourth Saturday of October, millions of Americans are rallied into a single day of action to help change the world.
Complete details about the day, as well as tools to help you make a difference in your community are available at makeadifferenceday.com.
Kevin Bacon joins us in celebrating the service of Make A Difference Day volunteers in our annual awards issue. Plus you'll meet the 10 National Honorees, 3 City Award winners and the first-ever All-Star. Be sure to check out the Make A Difference Day hall of fame photo gallery, too.
This year's honorees blew our minds and touched our hearts with the compassion and drive they showed. Read more about the awards and the inspiring projects we honor.
Cast your vote for the Make A Difference Day All-Star Award today. The nominees range from ages 9 to 99 and their stories of service are inspirational.
Check out nine projects nominated for the All-Star Award, and pick your favorite starting Wednesday, February 15. The winner receives a $10,000 charitable donation from USA WEEKEND and the Gannett Foundation.
Can a goat help Haiti, two years after a devastating earthquake? Catherine Russi has high hopes for hers.
In a medical clinic in Haiti, 19 wedding dresses hang from shelves and IV poles. Diane Cornelius, a bridal store owner from Lexington, Ky., is helping to outfit brides for two group weddings to be held that week.
Across the country, in big and small ways, millions volunteered to make a difference in their community. Join us in celebrating all the good!
Millions of people will volunteer in communities around the country on Saturday -- Make A Difference Day. Projects registered in the DAYtaBANK are eligible to enter for national recognition and win $10,000 for your favorite charity. All the details you need to get involved are on makeadifferenceday.com.
Anchor and managing editor of 'NBC Nightly News' and 'Rock Center,' Brian Williams hopes the news about Make A Difference Day will spread like wildfire.
Across the nation, millions of Americans are clearing their calendars to make way for USA WEEKEND Magazine's Make A Difference Day next Saturday. Corporations, kids and communities are joining the action on the nation's largest day of volunteering.
One of the lessons my wife and I try to teach our kids is that giving back is not something you do just at the surface level. It's something you should really dive into, with consistency and follow-up.
When I was about 10 or 11 years old, my father told me something that has always stayed with me...
As a runner, I believe strongly in the physical and emotional benefits of the sport. That's why I serve on the National Board of Directors of Back on My Feet, an organization that empowers homeless people to turn their lives around through running.
Ten years ago, I went through one of the worst experiences anyone can endure: watching my father die of lung cancer.
Each year hundreds of young people are recognized by Prudential with their Spirit of Community Awards for volunteer service. Many of the 2011 winners plan to join the millions of Americans volunteering on Make A Difference Day this Oct. 22. Among them: Rocco Fiorentino, 14, of Vorhees, N.J., who managed to have October declared Blindness Awareness Month in 36 states. Fiorentino will be helping people, who, like himself, are visually impaired by repairing canes at a Philadelphia hospital.
My job has given me a very public platform that allows me to meet and interact with incredible people all over the world.
Every week, I look forward to the moment when my wife, NBC sportscaster Andrea Joyce, comes home from taking our Golden Doodle, Reggie, to visit the Ronald McDonald House affiliated with the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
My job often takes me to places where people are in great need. Whenever I go anywhere there's suffering, I always take my camera with me and take a lot of photos, in part so I can show them to my kids.
If I allow myself to dwell on 9/11 for more than a few minutes, I tear up and become very emotional. Ten years later, it is still a raw wound.
First, Bill Gates dedicated his life to revolutionizing technology. Then, the richest man in the world decided to give half his fortune away to improve education and combat poverty and disease.
Hannah Salwen's parents had already been giving back. Or so they thought. Hannah's mother, Joan, volunteered at the local United Way, and her entrepreneur father, Kevin, sat on the board of Habitat for Humanity.
The Make A Difference Day DAYtaBANK is now open for projects. Entering has never been easier or so useful! Once you put your project in the DAYtaBANK, you can share your plans on social media and recruit your community into action. Come back to the
Members of Congress, journalist Cokie Roberts and singer Darius Rucker were on hand to salute USA WEEKEND Magazine's 2011 Make A Difference Day Award Honorees at a luncheon on Capitol Hill in April.
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