Give a Day – Get a Disney Day
February 23, 2010 by Sandy
Filed under Blog, Miscellaneous, Outside the home
Give a Day – Get a Disney Day Promotion
Breakfast for Disney Social Media Moms
We were really excited to see what was in store for us this morning. We knew it was geared around the “Give a Day – Get a Disney Day” promotion.
I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Disney Social Media Mom’s event in Orland Florida at Disney World. Our first morning there we were given a very nice breakfast and got to hear a great speaker, Guy Kawasaki.
From there we were walked over to another part of Disney Epcot (and for Florida it was a cold walk). We were ushered into a huge room with a balloon filled stage and hundreds of chairs set up. Yeah….we were here! To learn more about the Give a Day – Get a Disney Day There was all kinds of media in the back and cameras. The middle section was empty at that point and the Social Media Mom’s (us) had sections just for us.
Ty Pennington at Disney to unveil the can sculpture
They brought in a family from every state (except 2 that got held up by the winter storms) to represent the volunteerism that has been taking place. Disney started a promotion this year that you can give a day of service at participating places and get a free Disney park pass in return. Their hope was to get 1,000,000 participants and just 6 weeks in they have had 600,000 participants! Better than they ever expected. I think that is great. I knew someone who signed up at our local zoo to help take down Christmas lights. The projects don’t have to be big and scary. One of the points they kept making over the couple days we were there is how much better you feel and how just giving a day of service somewhere benefits not only those that you are helping….but it benefits you.
Disney's Largest Can Sculpture
There are enough cans here to make up 70,000 meals for people who need them. Wow…is that fantastic. They then used many volunteers after this presentation was over to pack up the cans into boxes to take to those needy people.
They had these cool cans all over
They were colorful, decorative and had a message:
The back of the Volunteer Disney Can
They really decorated and had the Volunteer theme going all around. Great
How can you help? Check out the Disney site and see how you can also Give a Day – Get a Disney Day yourself!
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