United Way's 23rd Day of Caring is scheduled for Friday, May 9, 2025
The Day of Caring will kick off at 9:30 a.m. with the Lumberton High School March Band and a mascot dance-off (complimentary breakfast and registration at 8:30 a.m.), and projects onsite will last until 2:00 p.m.
Offsite projects will start after kickoff at various locations around Bladen, Hoke, and Robeson Counties and conclude when projects are completed.
2025 Day of Caring Sponsors
The following projects are planned for volunteers to participate in and serve.
ONSITE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES (500 Linkhaw Road, Lumberton, NC 28358)
- Collecting travel duffel bags for foster care children at the dealership- 9:00 am-2:30 pm
- Blood Drive hosted by The Blood Connection- 10:00 am - 3:00 pm (ANYONE CAN VOLUNTEER TO DONATE BLOOD and receive a Free T-Shirt & E-gift card)
- Sew/ Knit-In event will entail making pillowcases for cancer patients, homeless children, and seniors hosted by NC Cooperative Extension in Bladen, Hoke, and Robeson Counties - 9:00 am - 2:30 pm (UNLIMITED VOLUNTEERS NEEDED THROUGHOUT THE EVENT)
OFFSITE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
ROBESON COUNTY
- Adopt-A-Highway (cleaning litter on two miles of Hwy 711 - Pine Log Road to Caton Road) 12 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
- Born Learning Trail Touch-Ups ( Pembroke Recreation Complex, 7164 NC-711 Pembroke NC 28372) 6 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
- Installing Smoke Alarms with American Red Cross (quick training then walking door to door installing smoke alarms in various neighborhoods) 12 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
- Exploration Station Beautification Project (104 N Chestnut St., Lumberton, NC 28358) 8 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
- Downtown Beautification Project (Dick Taylor Paza, downtown Lumberton, NC 28358) 8 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
- Beautification Project (818 W. 3rd Street, Pembroke, NC 28372) 10 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
- Yard Work & Kennel Cleaning (3180 West 5th Street Lumberton, NC 28358) 5 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
- Rape Crisis Center Office Beautification Project (1603 Godwin Avenue Lumberton, NC 28358) 4 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
- Canned food drive with the City of Lumberton
- Canned food drive with Truist Call Center
- Canned food drive with Magnolia Elementary School
- Collect travel duffel bags collection with Hearts-N-Hands Civitan
- Pet Supply Drive with International Paper
BLADEN COUNTY
- The Sew-In will be sewing pillowcases for cancer patients, homeless children, and seniors at Bladen County Ag Extension Office (450 Smith Cir # N8, Elizabethtown, NC 28337) UNLIMITED VOLUNTEERS.
HOKE COUNTY
- The Sew-in event will be sewing pillowcases for cancer patients, foster care children, and seniors at Hoke County Ag Extension Office (645 E. Palmer St, Raeford, NC 28376), UNLIMITED VOLUNTEERS.
- Hoke County Domestic Violence Center Beautification Project (107-109 Oakwood Avenue. Raeford, NC 28376) 4 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
On the morning of Day of Caring, all volunteers will be invited to Lumberton Chevrolet for breakfast and to pick up their Day of Caring tee shirts and supplies. Onsite volunteers will stay at Lumberton Chevrolet to assist with sewing pillowcases or donating blood. All other volunteers will travel to the locations listed above to tackle the offsite projects.
As a volunteer, you can guarantee your preferred tee shirt size by registering before Friday, April 11, 2025!
Lumber River United Way's annual Day of Caring is a volunteer event that brings the community together to positively impact the nonprofits and human service providers that help those in need. Volunteers also tackle projects at local schools, churches, and city parks. Day of Caring is held annually on Friday of Mother's Day weekend. Three hundred thirty-five volunteers provided 986 hours to ensure United Way's 2024 Day of Caring was successful! Projects throughout Bladen, Hoke, and Robeson County provided a value of $30,527.27 in volunteer time.
REGISTRATION FOR THE DAY OF CARING IS NOW OPEN!
PLEASE USE THE WEB FORM BELOW TO REGISTER