{"id":25175,"date":"2007-09-16T11:49:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T11:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/make-a-difference-day-oct-27-a-great-publicity-op\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:42:32","slug":"make-a-difference-day-oct-27-a-great-publicity-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/make-a-difference-day-oct-27-a-great-publicity-op\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a Difference Day, Oct. 27, a great publicity op"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left\">Today&#8217;s issue of USA\u00a0Weekend\u00a0includes details on how your company, nonprofit, government agency, social club or neighborhood group can participate in Make a Difference Day\u00a0on Oct. 27, the annual Saturday set aside to make a difference in your community.<\/div>\n<p>How? Paint a building, pick up litter, help at a home for the elderly, refurbish a community center, plant flowers in the park or any other good deed that makes a difference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re participating, be sure to let your local newspapers and TV stations know. They often cover these events because you are the &#8220;local angle&#8221; to the national story. Also, create video of your good deeds and post to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.YouTube.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> and to your website. If TV stations won&#8217;t cover your volunteer efforts, submit the video anyway to your local TV stations.<\/p>\n<p>This year, USA Weekend is giving volunteers a chance to win a vacation and save sea turtles in Costa Rica, teach English in Vietnam or help out at an orphange in Russia.\u00a0Simply keep a photo diary of the day&#8217;s activities, then submit one picture that best illustrates your Make a Difference Day giving. A selection committee will pick one winner (and guest) to go on a paid volunteer vacation to the destination of his or her choice through Travelocity&#8217;s Travel for Good Program. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Make sure the photo doesn&#8217;t look amateurish. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;How to Use Photos &amp; Graphics in Your Publicity Campaign.&#8221;\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s issue of USA\u00a0Weekend\u00a0includes details on how your company, nonprofit, government agency, social club or neighborhood group can participate in Make a Difference Day\u00a0on Oct. 27, the annual Saturday set aside to make a difference in your community. How? Paint a building, pick up litter, help at a home for the elderly, refurbish a community\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/make-a-difference-day-oct-27-a-great-publicity-op\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":5,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[619,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-25175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-photos-graphics","8":"tag-video-marketing","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41053,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25175\/revisions\/41053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}