Community Care Day

A team of volunteers in LIVE UNITED shirts posing in front of a Habitat ReStore truck

Community Care Day / United Way Campaign Kick-Off

Hundreds of volunteers take part in hands-on service projects across Fairfield County to launch our annual campaign.

Date
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Time
3:00 PM

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Community Care Day 2025

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  • Volunteers in yellow shirts sorting and packing supplies in a warehouse bay
  • A volunteer holding 2-1-1 signs beside boxes of printed materials in an office
  • A volunteer carrying a large box through a furniture warehouse
  • Three guests posing in front of the United Way step-and-repeat banner
  • A team of seven volunteers posing together at the United Way banner
  • Six volunteers posing together at the United Way banner
  • Two volunteers pushing wheelbarrows loaded with mulch on a rainy morning
  • Volunteers seated at round tables facing the stage during the campaign kick-off
  • Two speakers at the podium during the kick-off program
  • Seven volunteers posing together at the United Way banner
  • A volunteer in yellow rain overalls taking a break in a landscaped garden bed
  • Three volunteers with a shovel posing outside a project site
  • A large group of volunteers and community leaders on stage at the kick-off
  • Five volunteers holding packed lunch bags in a food pantry work room
  • Two utility line workers clearing brush from a bucket truck
  • Five student volunteers with bags of collected litter on a downtown sidewalk
  • Two volunteers cheering with their arms raised at a project site
  • Volunteers picking up litter along a downtown street in the rain
  • A large group of volunteers gathered in a building lobby for a team photo
  • Student volunteers eating packed lunches at a picnic table in the woods
  • Four volunteers sharing lunch together at a table indoors
  • Five work crew volunteers posing beside their trucks at a rural site
  • Five volunteers posing in front of The Foundation Shelters sign
  • Four volunteers posing together in a hallway
  • Three volunteers posing outside a building entrance
  • Five volunteers packing envelopes at a long table
  • A team of volunteers posing on the front steps of a church
  • A volunteer power washing the exterior wall of a building
  • A large group of student volunteers posing outside a brick building
  • Student volunteers with trash bags along a wooded park path
  • A tractor pulling a wagon of volunteers along a gravel drive
  • A volunteer resting on a shovel beside a mulch pile in a parking lot
  • Two volunteers posing on a freshly mulched walking path
  • Two volunteers taking a water break beside a mulch pile
  • A crew spreading mulch along a playground path
  • A group of volunteers posing with a wheelbarrow at a completed playground project
  • Volunteers shoveling mulch into wheelbarrows in a parking lot
  • Volunteers staffing the Live United check-in table
  • A volunteer in waders pulling trash from a creek
  • A volunteer shoveling mulch at a playground
  • A volunteer with a shovel beside a mulch pile in a parking lot
  • Two volunteers posing together in a meeting room
  • A crew giving thumbs up on the mulched playground path
  • A volunteer sitting in a wheelbarrow after finishing a playground project
  • Volunteers sharing a pizza lunch in a school cafeteria
  • A volunteer raking mulch beside a teal dragon playground sculpture
  • Volunteers moving landscape fabric at a playground project
  • A hall full of volunteers seated at round tables for the kick-off
  • Rows of seated volunteers listening during the kick-off program
  • Volunteers spreading mulch near a playground slide
  • The kick-off crowd facing the stage with One Community One Goal on screen
  • A volunteer pushing a blue wheelbarrow full of mulch
  • Five community leaders posing in a meeting room
  • A large group of volunteers posing with staff at the United Way banner
  • A volunteer standing beside the creek at a stream cleanup site
  • A worker giving a thumbs up from a utility cart beside a moving truck
  • A volunteer in waders carrying a log out of the creek
  • A group of volunteers with trash bags and grabbers on a rail-trail path
  • Three volunteers operating a log splitter under a barn shelter

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