Every year United Way of Larimer County's Make a Difference Day empowers thousands of volunteers to help our community. For this year's Make a Difference Day, we followed two volunteer project leaders (VPL's) Zach and Kaytlyn. They worked hard preparing for this year's Make a Difference Day by coordinating with local businesses, planning pick up points and contacting volunteers. Kaytlyn and Zach along with volunteers from Mueller Pye & Associates CPA collected and sorted hundreds of items for Homeless Gear.

Volunteers play a huge role in making sure Homeless gear is able to gather items they need and ensure individuals facing homelessness have gear to help them survive outdoors. Events such as Make a Difference Day are very important to the community. Even though this event has ended, Homeless gear collects donations year round. The list of donatable items is available here.

You can make a positive impact in our community, sign up to volunteer here.

If you want to be a volunteer project leader, click here to get started sign up.

			McKenna Wood McKenna Wood is a Community Impact intern at United Way of Larimer County. She is currently a senior at CSU studying communications and history. In her free time she enjoys painting, yoga and looking at pictures of dogs on the internet.