Make A Difference Day - Center for Student Enrichment

A National Event

• Created in 1990 by USAWeekend, Make A Difference Day is a national event celebrating neighbors helping neighbors.  
• Make A Difference Day is one of the largest annual single-days of service nationwide. Tens of thousands of volunteers across the country unite on the fourth Saturday in October with a common mission:  to improve the lives of others through a wide range of community-driven service projects. 
• Approximately 250,000 service projects are done per year in 30 different countries.  There are 30 million hours of volunteer services per year with an estimated $635 million annual dollar value of volunteer hours.

Marquette County Make A Difference Day

• Northern Michigan University’s Make A Difference Day initiative has brought in over 800 volunteers to rake leaves for elderly people in the Marquette community. 
• Presented by the NMU Volunteer Center, this event involves student organizations that rake yards over the course of the day. Groups must provide their own transportation.  
• Volunteers will receive more information about picking up rakes and t-shirts as well as breakfast closer to the event.