Case Studies

Job Corps Earth Day Every Day Campaign

10/18/2011
In the summer of 2009, funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) enabled the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps program to build and upgrade facilities and incorporate ...

The Friends of Gaile Owens Campaign

6/1/2011
Gaile Owens, a domestic abuse survivor on death row, nearly became the first woman executed in Tennessee in almost 200 years. But thanks to a legal effort closely coordinated with ...

Metro Nashville Airport Authority

2/16/2010
Nashville has grown significantly as a city over the last decade, from the dozens of relocated corporate headquarters to the renaissance of downtown Nashville. And as Nashville has evolved, the ...

Earth Hour Nashville 2009

1/25/2010
How do you convince hundreds of Music City businesses, owners of major buildings and residents to turn off all nonessential lights for one hour on a busy March Saturday night?

Nashville Health Care Council

4/14/2009
A national spotlight was shining on Nashville in October of 2008 as Belmont University hosted the second of three presidential debates between John McCain and Barack Obama. To take advantage ...

Nashville for All of Us Special Election Campaign

4/14/2009
For two years, a group in Nashville worked to make English the only permissible language for use by Metro government. Tapping into public anger over immigration issues, Metropolitan Nashville Council ...

Job Corps

8/22/2008
In 1995, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps program faced a problem in the Southeast: how to recruit more age- and income-appropriate students to the program’s education and job ...

Meth Destroys

7/29/2008
In September 2005, the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference retained MP&F to conduct a statewide anti-methamphetamine campaign. There were multiple objectives: to educate and inform the public, particularly school-age youth, ...

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Hands on Nashville Volunteer Report Card

6/2/2010

Hands On Nashville announced today that since May 2, they have coordinated 15,938 volunteers in flood relief efforts. Since the flood in early May, Hands On Nashville has been working to allocate volunteers to sites throughout the city.

The most recent Hands on Nashville volunteer response numbers are listed below.

66,479
The approximate number of volunteer hours donated to flood recovery by Hands On Nashville volunteers between May 2 and yesterday, June 1.

$1,386,087
The projected economic impact of Hands On Nashville flood volunteerism, according to Independent Sector research, between May 2 and yesterday, June 1.

889
The number of project sites coordinated by Hands On Nashville between May 2 and today, June 2.

8
Number of service projects Hands On Nashville plans to facilitate today, June 2.

19
The number of years Hands On Nashville volunteers have been making a difference in our community.

* Please note these numbers account only for verified service contributed by volunteers registered via www.hon.org. They do not include the hundreds of volunteer referrals made each day by Hands On Nashville staff to facilitate grassroots efforts led by faith and community groups.

Number of people reached by Hands On Nashville’s flood-related communication vehicles:

21,466
New Facebook followers since May 1.

113,767
Unique users visiting www.hon.org since May 1.

3,385
Twitter followers.

Since Hands On Nashville was founded in 1991, our volunteers have worked year-round, 365 days a year, to make Nashville a better place. In 2009, Hands On Nashville connected 38,969 volunteers to service, making a $23 million economic impact. Our agency is honored to help organize volunteers in record numbers to support those impacted by the flood. Please visit www.hon.org for more information about Hands On Nashville, to sign up for volunteer opportunities and e-mail updates, to see a list of flood volunteer needs, or to donate to HON to support flood-related volunteerism.