declining campaign revenue<\/a>, the organization is asking people to pair volunteerism with continued financial support by donating directly to local nonprofits.<\/p>\n\u201cThey help so many different facets of our community, whether it’s education, transportation, health, just so many different facets of our lives,\u201d volunteer Mark Muthambi said.<\/p>\n
At the Rosamond Gifford Zoo, the extra hands helped tackle work that can be difficult for staff to get to while focusing on their day-to-day responsibilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s wonderful because it gives me the opportunity to see all the little details. So when they come in and do all this volunteer work, it really helps us out,\u201d said Cameron Covert of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo.<\/p>\n
While Day of Caring lasts just one day, volunteers said the need to support the organizations serving Central New York does not.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust do it. We’re all busy, jobs, personal lives, it’s a lot. We’re all managing a lot. But when you get here… the feeling, the excitement… knowing you’re making an impact, second to none,\u201d Bruno said.<\/p>\n
United Way is encouraging people to carry that momentum forward through its “Show Up, Raise Up” campaign. Through the United Way of Central New York website, people can connect with partner nonprofits and donate directly to the organizations they choose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYRACUSE, N.Y. \u2014 Hundreds of volunteers rolled up their sleeves across Central New York for United Way\u2019s “Day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-315571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}