The first two Freedom Days benefitted Camp Summit, a  residential camping facility that serves children and adults who are physically challenged, developmentally delayed and dual sensory impaired. 

Volunteers worked on a wide range of service projects including landscaping, painting, and building. Kids even helped out by prepping the flooring for the playground.

Year three, more than 250 volunteers spent the morning at the Science Place where they renovated exhibits, painted walls, cleared out old storage and gave the museum a much -needed facelift, enhancing the facility for thousands of children (and oh yeah, some adults, too!) who visit each year.

Last year volunteers fanned out across Old East Dallas serving two important nonprofit organizations - the Interfaith Housing Coalition and the Wilkinson Center.  Armed with a few tools and a lot of enthusiam, volunteers: painted 11,000 sq. ft. of walls and ceilings, tore down and rebuilt 400 sq. ft. of wood fence, scraped, primed and painted 400 ft. of metal railing, demolished 30 ft. of dilapidated sidewalk, removed 33 shrubs and 1 old jungle gym to prepare for the planting of a community garden, stripped and re-stained 1 table, abated 9 walls marred by graffiti and landscaped.

In addition to providing much needed service to these outstanding nonprofit organizations, Freedom Day has served as a wonderful team building opportunity for EFNT stakeholders' employees and was an ideal way to start the clock on the 4,000 hours of volunteer work President Bush has urged all Americans to do over the course of their lifetime.

Register online to participate in this year's event.