THANK YOU from Love Orange!

We had a total of 568 volunteers serving in 64 projects throughout the year in Orange!

That's over 1,490 volunteer hours, which equates to over $49,250 worth of time invested in Orange.

Thank you to our Sponsors for helping to make this year such a success!

• • • City Leadership Gatherings

    • Homeless Neighbor Initiative quarterly lunches to inform and address the issues pertaining to those experiencing homelessness with Civic Leadership and Nonprofit Partners; attendance average, 30
      Annual breakfast to pray for our country, county, city and city leaders on the National Day of Prayer

    • Senior A.C.T. (Action Care Team): addresses our underserved Senior Residents in crisis in cooperation with the Orange Senior Center

    • Senior Saturdays - assisting Senior Residents with their yards and household duties

    • 35 volunteers
      32 projects completed
      

    • Senior Yard Card sponsored by Fairhaven Memorial Park & Mortuary every month
      

    • Annual Pastor’s Appreciation Breakfast to honor those serving our congregations
      

    • Monthly Pastor’s Prayer meeting representing 20-30 congregations in Orange

    • 75 guests gathered in unity to see the International Peace Flame from Bethlehem

    • 588 encouragement and thank you cards distributed to Orange Senior Residents, First Responders, teachers at a school for autistic students, the Pediatric Dept at Choc Hospital, the Hematology Dept at Choc. Hospital, and a local high school

    • 250 encouragement cards for teachers and administrators were distributed to 10 schools in Orange

    • Beautification for one of the elementary schools in Orange
      

    • Planted and tended to a garden for our local family resource center as well as worked on the maintenance of their education building

    
    
  
  

• • • • Gathered 460 volunteers to serve in 22 projects on Volunteer Day
        

      • Assisted with the Volunteer Festival, which hosted 200 guests
        

      • 300 rocks were creatively painted to be given to cancer patients in different cancer centers and to be given to a local garden.

      • 33 trash bags were filled up from the Santiago Creek, which included over a dozen invasive plant species eradicated from the creek bed.

      • Beautification and maintenance of the El Modena Nature Center by removing horsetail and invasives along the pond and creek as well as weeding and landscaping various areas.

      • Joined with a local church’s food distribution program.

      • Vibrant sensory interactive paths were created for the special education, TK, and Kindergarten students at one of Orange’s elementary schools.

      • Family Fun Run brought together youth and families for a day of fun activities.

      • Assisted with the ongoing efforts of providing core services to those experiencing homelessness.

      • 25 bags of trash were gathered on one of the busiest streets in Orange.

      • 80 no-sew blankets were made for the new Marines arriving at Camp Pendleton.

      • Updated the painted trim on 2 Chapel on Wheels wagons

      • 150 artifacts were donated in an archive drive

      • Gathered 73 volunteers to assist with the City of Orange’s Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony’s Winter Wonderland festivities

      
      
    
    
  
  

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