Events
August 25, 2010: United Way Days of Caring
Another successful year of United Way's Days of Caring. Thanks to Virent Energy Systems, Alliant Energy, GE Medical, First Business Bank, TASC,
Hearland Credit Union and Hausemann-Johnson Insurance for helping us do everything including cleaning up our rain gardens, cleaning the kitchen,
cleaning first floor windows, sanitizing toys, landscaping mulch and planting a 15 foot tree! Feel free to review photos from the day using the gallery below, or look at the photos on Flickr.
And don't forget to check out the thank-yous from some of our kids!
May 2, 2010: Blackhawk Church Community Service Day
Blackhawk Church devoted an entire sunday for their congregation to volunteer to perform projects around
the ciry. Family Centers was lucky enough to get two teams to spend the entire day helping us with spring
cleaning of our rain gardens. Thanks to these volunteers for not only completing the assigned task, but
laying some landscape fabric and mulch as well!
December 4, 2009: Inner Fire Yoga Presents Check to Family Centers
Marit Sathrum, owner of Inner Fire Yoga
donates a check in the amount of $3,352 to Neil Diffenbaugh of Family Centers. The donation was the
result of Inner fire Yoga's Abundance Celebration that was held in April.
Inner Fire Yoga is a Madison based yoga studio offering a variety of yoga classes as well as massage therapy
services, a "yoga boutique", workshops in a variety of topics including yoga, meditaiton, and nutrition, and more.
Inner Fire Yoga is committed to supporting the community by hosting events each year and donating the
proceeds generated from these events to local, needy organizations. This year, Family Centers is the thankful
recipient of Inner Fire Yoga's efforts.
August 26, 2009: United Way Days of Caring
We would like to thank the local businesses and staff members who helped to make our 2009 United Way
Day of Caring a huge success! Our gracius local businesses provided 40 volunteers to help us work on
6 different projects. These volunteers completed everything from cleaning our kitchen and group rooms,
disinfecting toys, cleaning windows, touching up paint, clearing out our rain gardens and landscaping a
portion of our playground.
- Anchor Bank
- Dane County Credit Union
- Foley & Lardner LLP
- GE Healthcare
- M3 Insurance
- National Guardian Life Insurance Co.
- Patrick O'Toole
- Summit Credit Union
- UW System Academic and Student Services
Take a look at these power teams in action!
(Left click to view a full-size image. Right-click to download a hi-res copy.)
August 27, 2008: United Way Days of Caring
Family Centers selected Wednesday, August 27 as their date to ask volunteeers from around the community to help
with various projects for the United Way Days of Caring. We are always amazed at the level of community involvement
that we get from this annual event and this day was just exceptional! We prepared projects for both the morning and
afternoon and this year's volunteers exceeded our expectations, completed everything on the list and were asking for more!
Take a look at what these guys accomplished:
The morning started out with a series of 5 room moves that will allow us to better utilize the available
space in the facility. We were lucky enough to have two volutneers from Ge Healthcare
to help us move a conference table and furniture as well as storage room shelves, futon sofas, chairs
and lots of stuff!
Then, we have a busload (I kid you not) of first and second year students from the University of Wisconsin Law school
These students were assigned the task of weeding our beautiful rain garden. They were SO efficient, they completed
everything on the list and asked for more! I hope I get a chance to see them again in the future, hopefully not in a
courtroom setting :>)
 
After a busy morning, we started additional projects in the afternoon.
Hey, they even DO WINDOWS! We had a crew of five from Wisconsin Alumni Association that
cleaned every one of our first floor windows to help us and our participants enjoy the beautiful outdoors,
even when we're stuck inside.
 
And we had still another group of eight people from M3 (Mortenson, Matzelle & Meldrum) who helped sanitize toys
in our Early Childhood Center, put some shelves together and even help with stenciling the ducks to make sure it
was all completed!
 
We even had our own local celebrity, John Stofflet from NBC 15 News try his hand at stenciling
ducks on the wall to help the children find their way back to our Early Childhood Center.
We would like to
extend a special thanks to United Way, our volunteers and all volunteers around Dane County who
understand the importance of giving their time and talents to make life better for our staff and,
most importantly, those participants that use our services!
July 8, 2008: East Coast High School Students Help us Out
36 high school students attending the University of Wisconsin American Collegiate Adventures summer camp
helped us out with some much needed grounds maintenenace on Tuesday, July 8. Let me tell you, if you want to get
a bunch of work done, let volunteeer high school students do it! These guys were phenomenal in helping with everything from
painting an interior room, filling our new sandbox with sand, raking the grass, mowing the lawn and pulling weeds! Thanks
to the volunteers and the University of Wisconsin for providing us with this opportunity to utilize these great resources!
March 21, 2008: Parental Stress Center is now Canopy Center
The Parental Stress Center has rebranded itself with a new name, Canopy Center - Healing and Family Support Services.
August 3, 2007: Target East Volunteers Come Through!
Fourteen volunteers from Madison's Target East store challenged the August heat to help Family Centers relocate
3,000 square feet of mulch and prepare the ground for seeding with grass...all in an effort to maintain the
outdoor beauty of our fabulous facility! This team wanted to participate in the United Way Days of Caring
but were unavailable for the days of the event. So, realizing that volunteering is not limited to specific days
of the year, they helped us ahead of time! David Kinney, Loaned Executive from Oscar Mayer/Kraft Foods
was available to welcome the group on behalf of the United Way.
Thank You
 !!!!
February 22, 2007: Painting auction benefits Family Centers
Our friends at Janus Galleries selected Family Centers to be the recipient of
proceeds generated from the auction of an original painting created by
local Madison artist Peter Lundberg. The oil painting, entitled Breezy Point was available for viewing and auction at Janus Galleries, 2701 Monroe Street, Madison
Wisconsin. Thanks to Janus Galleries
for their financial support of Family Centers!
Breezy Point
Peter Lundberg
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