This year on Make a Difference Day in Larimer County, more than 3,500 people gave their time and energy to help 90 local nonprofit organizations and agencies. That’s 14,336 hours of volunteering, worth over $279,000, in just six days!

Here at the Matthews House we had 3 groups of wonderful people join us from Mountain View Church, First Baptist Church and Summitview Community Church. They spent the three days with us finishing construction on our storage shed, painting our fence, sprucing up the paint on the house and landscaping the yard. Its an important piece of our mission that the youth in our program always have a homey place to spend some time, so we owe a huge thank you to all our volunteers for making sure the house stays welcoming and comfortable.

A very big thank you also to Lee Smith and FlatIron Steel in La Salle for donating all the steel and the majority of other materials needed to construct our storage shed. This was a huge gift and without it, we wouldn’t have a shed today.

Some of our volunteers even made the United Way home page.