Days of Caring

Days of Caring logo with Red and Yellow stripes against a blue background. There are three outlined sun images in red, orange and yellow. The yellow has the Trident United Way logo in the middle

A 24-year tradition in the Tri-County area, Trident United Way’s Days of Caring brings together hundreds of nonprofits, agencies and schools with thousands of volunteers for three days to improve our community. Trident United Way’s Days of Caring is the largest community initiative in the area. We match nonprofit agencies and schools with volunteer teams that help advance their mission and build capacity—all while strengthening partnerships and fostering community volunteerism.

Join us for 2024 Days of Caring on November 20-22!

A group of volunteers from ADC Engineering post in front of a house being built for Berkeley County Habitat for Humanity

Project Host Site Registration

 Sept. 9 - Oct. 11

Volunteer Team Registration

Oct. 7 – Nov. 8

Online T-Shirt Store

Oct. 7 - Oct. 27

Day 1 Recap

 

Join our social media contest! Post your team in action, use #DaysOfCaring and tag us for your chance to win a prize!

Show us your Days of Caring team in action

Join our social media contest for your chance to win a gift basket (valued at $100) for you and your team!

How to enter:

  • Post your Days of Caring photos to Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn
  • Tag Trident United Way in the post
  • Use #DaysOfCaring

The contest will be open from Wednesday, 11/20 at 7 am - Monday, 11/25 at 4 pm. Winner will be selected at random and notified by email,  and announced on social media on Wednesday, 11/27. Click here for official contest rules.

Days of Caring FAQs

No! Volunteers and non-profits or schools hosting projects are able to select how many and which days they’d like to participate. Our goal is to provide participants of Days of Caring with flexibility to engage in this impactful community service event.

Once volunteers register for your project, you will receive an email notification from GivePulse. This will prompt you to log into your account to view the volunteer’s information. If the volunteer group does not fill all of your volunteer spots, your project will remain open until all spots have been filled then it will be marked as full.

If you absolutely must cancel your project, please contact any volunteer group that may have signed up as well as Trident United Way at volunteer@tuw.org or 843-740-9000 ASAP. Volunteers that participate in Days of Caring are very motivated to participate in the day and we do not want to disappoint them. By letting us know as soon as possible, we can do our best to match those volunteers with another project so they still have an opportunity to participate.

We do have some student/youth volunteer teams that participate in Days of Caring. If your project is not youth-friendly, be sure to specify the appropriate age range when submitting your project request; there are fields to complete for minimum age requirements.

We do everything we can to fill all of the Days of Caring projects, but every year there are a few projects that go unfilled. If your project has not been filled two weeks prior to the event, please contact volunteer@tuw.org. Your project is still valuable to our community and we will work with you to try and match a volunteer group to come out and complete it; however, it will likely be some time after Days of Caring.

There are many long standing Days of Caring relationships between project sites and volunteer teams, which is wonderful! We still require the agency/school to register their project with us and identify the volunteer team. We will then assist the volunteer team register for the project to ensure all teams are accounted for. For more information on pre-partnering, please contact our volunteer staff at volunteer@tuw.org.

Project Hosts: Organizations with a 501c3 nonprofit status are welcome to submit a project request to participate. Religious organizations that provide community outreach programs, such as food pantries or address education, financial stability and health impact areas, may also submit project requests that support these programs. These projects may be in-person, virtual or remote project opportunities.

Teams: Any company or group of five or more people can form volunteer teams and sign up for volunteer projects.

Thank you to our generous sponsors!

 

Empowerment:

 

Impact:

Lifecycle Engineering | Resonac Graphite America | The Intertech Group

Reliance:

Cummins | Santee Cooper | The Bank of South Carolina | The Post and Courier

Campaign Champions:

 

ADC Engineering Specialists | AstenJohnson | Berkeley County School District | Berkeley Electric Cooperative | C&S Wholesale Grocers | Charleston Area Convention and Visitors Bureau | Charleston County Government | Charleston Water System | City of Charleston | City of Goose Creek | College of Charleston | COSTCO Wholesale | CPM Federal Credit Union | Cummins, Inc. | Elliott Davis LLC | FineMark National Bank & Trust | First Citizens Bank | Fluor Corporation | Forvis Mazars | Johnson & Johnson, Inc. | LS3P Associates, LTD. | Life Cycle Engineering | Medical University of South Carolina | Nationwide Insurance Company | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP | Nucor | Publix Super Markets Inc. | Robert Bosch LLC | Roper St. Francis Healthcare | Sandler Training | Santee Cooper | Select Health of South Carolina | SouthState Bank | The Bank of South Carolina | The InterTech Group Inc. | Trident Health/HCA South Atlantic Division | Trident Technical College | Trident United Way | United Bank

For more information on 2024 Days of Caring, contact DayofCaring@TUW.org.

Thank you to everyone who participated in 2023 Days of Caring!

From November 15-17 over 2,000 volunteers donated 8,000+ hours to 75 nonprofits, agencies and schools in the Tri-County area, completing over 130 projects. 

Whether it was your first time participating or your 23rd, thank you for dedicating your time and effots to the Tri-County community. We hope this has inspired continued service throughout the year.

We look forward to seeing you next year for Trident United Way's 2024 Days of Caring!

2023 Days of Caring Photo Album

Special Thanks to our 2023 Alliance Program Sponsors

 

CHAMPION:

Adams Outdoor Advertising | Anita Zucker and The InterTech Group, Inc.| Chernoff Newman | Johnson & Johnson | Life Cycle Engineering Inc.| MUSC Health | Nucor | Publix Super Markets, Inc.| The Post and Courier 

ADVOCATE:

FORVIS | Santee Cooper

FRIEND:

Humana Healthy Horizons in South Carolina | Roper St. Francis Healthcare

Days of Caring 2022

That's a wrap on 2022 Days of Caring! Thank you to all the amazing volunteer teams for dedicating your time and efforts over the past three days – you have made an incredible impact. This year, 2,929 volunteers rolled up their sleeves to complete 190 projects at 78 different host sites, resulting in 10,000 volunteer hours!

We are so proud to be a part of this caring and committed Tri-County community - UNITED we improve lives!

2022 Days of Caring Photo Album

Special Thanks to our 2022 Alliance Program Sponsors

 

CHAMPION:

Adams Outdoor Advertising | Anita Zucker and The InterTech Group, Inc.| Chernoff Newman | Ingevity

Johnson & Johnson | Life Cycle Engineering Inc.| MUSC Health | Nucor | Publix Super Markets, Inc.

Roper St. Francis Healthcare | The Post and Courier 

ADVOCATE:

Forvis | Santee Cooper

FRIEND:

The Bank of South Carolina

Days of Caring 2021

Thank you to the incredible volunteers who participated in Trident United Way's 2021 Days of Caring - we're grateful for your helping hands across the community! From November 17th-November 19th, 2,827 volunteers rolled up their sleeves to complete 173 projects in our Tri-County community, resulting in 9,790 volunteer hours valued at $110,920! This is an incredible impact in our community - YOU are making a difference!

Two volunteers at the SCDNR Oyster Scoring gathering oyster shells together, looking at camera and smiling

Two volunteers wearing Elliott Davis volunteer shirts crouched on the ground to garden, both looking at camera and smiling

Volunteer wearing a City of Charleston police uniform using a grabber on a long pole to pick up litter on the ground outside

A volunteer is at a school painting a picnic table bright purple, volunteer is looking at the camera smiling

Six women at the Charleston Senior Center wearing outfits of red, white and blue and fun, festive hats. They are posing for a photo, smiling, several hold small USA flags, and one is holding a sign that says Hat Ladies

Four volunteers are kneeling on the ground and gardening at the Lowcountry Children's Museum. There is a sign sticking out of the garden that says Edibles

Three volunteers wearing military fatigues are digging dirt,one volunteer looks at the camera smiling.

A large group of volunteers are painting over grafitti on poles under an overpass in downtown charleston

A large group of volunteers wearing bright blue Days of Caring shirts pose in front of a colorful mural at Lowcountry Food Bank. Three individuals are kneeling in the front for the photo, holding a sign that says Johnson & Johnson Inc

Several volunteers wearing MUSC shirts pose for a photo at the Bundles of Joy Diaper Bank. They are holding a plastic ziploc bag filled with diapers, and are holding a sign that says MUSC Human Resources Management.

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2021 Facebook Album

Questions? Contact volunteer@tuw.org.