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Make a Difference Day 2023

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Over 200 volunteers
Approximately 800 hours
Total value of over $26,000

On Saturday, October 28, 2023, the City of Goodyear celebrated Make a Difference Day for the 16th consecutive year.  Mayor Joe Pizzillo welcomed the volunteers at the kick-off event at City Hall where the volunteers’ generous spirit was in full display.

Over 200 volunteers from several community groups completed projects that helped the City’s residents and improved its neighborhoods.  Volunteers worked together on various projects, including:

  • Building 20 beds for 20 kids in Goodyear.
  • Yard clean-up and landscaping at the home of a low-income senior Goodyear resident.
  • Sorting donations and helping with thrift store activities at Hope’s Closet.
  • Cleaning up a Historic Goodyear alley.
  • Painting over 150 fire hydrants in Palm Valley Phase 2.
  • Restriping parking stall lines at the Ballpark
  • Spreading woodchips in the playgrounds of Loma Linda Park, Estrella Vista North and South Parks, Falcon Park, and Goodyear Community Park
  • Painting fire lane curbs at Falcon Park, Foothills Community Park and Goodyear Community Park.

 

The build beds for kids project was in collaboration with AZ Community Impact, which provided the tools, bedding and building materials.  A trained builder and a host led each of the 4 teams that worked on the project.

Special thanks to the following volunteer groups and donors for their invaluable help and support.

  1. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
  2. Compass Church
  3. Franklin Pierce University
  4. Desert Edge High School
  5. Estrella Foothills High School
  6. Millennium High School
  7. The Odyssey Preparatory Academy of Goodyear
  8. Trivium Preparatory Academy – Great Hearts
  9. Western Sky Middle School Builders Club
  10. AZ West Valley Kiwanis Builders Club
  11. Goodyear Youth Commission
  12. Goodyear Human Resources
  13. Amazon GYR2
  14. Palo Verde Young Generation
  15. United Aviate Academy
  16. PepsiCo (Gatorade)
  17. Papa Johns (Pizza partner)

Make a Difference Day is an all-encompassing national day of service dedicated to helping others – a celebration of neighbors helping neighbors.  It takes place on the fourth Saturday of October of each year.