Diapers, school supplies and food boxes: A look at Go All IN Day’s impact

Volunteers shovel at Soul Food Project urban farm on June 24, 2022, for United Way of Central Indiana’s Go All IN Day.

Volunteers stuff bags with school supplies at United Way of Central Indiana’s headquarters on June 24, 2022, for Go All IN Day. The bags will go to kids participating in Indy Parks camps this summer.

Volunteers plant flowers at Growing Places Indy’s White River State Park garden on June 24, 2022, for United Way’s Go All IN Day. Volunteers also planted tomatoes and peppers.

Volunteers build tactile books for children who are blind or visually impaired on June 24, 2022, at Visually Impaired Preschool Services as part of United Way of Central Indiana’s Go All IN Day.

Volunteers paint the Rainbow Bridge in Broad Ripple on June 24, 2022, as part of United Way of Central Indiana’s Go All IN Day.

Volunteers tidy up outside Second Helpings on June 24, 2022, as part of United Way of Central Indiana’s Go All IN Day.

On June 24, volunteers did it all.

They sorted donations and restocked food pantries. They weeded and landscaped at nonprofits and parks.

They donated blood, cooked healthy meals for children experiencing homelessness and cleaned an attic at the Indianapolis Zoo.

They planted urban vegetable gardens at Growing Places Indy and the Elephant Garden on Indianapolis’ northeast side.

They painted the Rainbow Bridge in Broad Ripple and murals at Horizon House and the Soul Food Project urban farm.

They arrived in a big group at Family Promise of Hendricks County and installed bunk beds and blinds and organized supplies at the new “Almost Home” family shelter.

At Visually Impaired Preschool Services, volunteers built tactile books for children who are blind or visually impaired.

And at WellSpring in Martinsville, volunteers pampered families living in local shelters with a spa day.

On Go All IN Day, volunteers helped organizations in need across United Way’s service area of Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Marion, Morgan and Putnam counties.

Here’s a look – by the numbers – at some of the impact volunteers made during this year’s event:

More than 950: volunteers pitched in on Go All IN Day, sponsored this year by WRTV.  

Over 40: nonprofits, grassroots organizations and community groups hosted projects.  

7: number of counties where projects took place. 

2: walls prepped for painting in Putnam County. Volunteers joined the Greencastle Civic League to help get the walls ready for the upcoming Putnam County Mural Festival.  

150: bags packed with school supplies for kids at the Women’s Resource Center of Hancock County. Volunteers also filled 50 “hope pouches” with personal care items for the center’s clients. 

2,932: pounds of products sorted at Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana. Working in an assembly line, volunteers inspected and sorted donated food and built 200 meal boxes for families. That’s 6,610 meals going into the community, Gleaners said. 

5,000: pairs of shoes. At Changing Footprints, volunteers sorted and packed the shoes, which will be sent to Ukraine through the Noblesville nonprofit Mission to Ukraine.  

17,850: diapers assembled into 714 bundles at the Indiana Diaper Bank. The bundles will go to the organization’s partners in the community, so all children have access to diapers.