Make A Difference Day is an annual volunteer event held every 4th Saturday of October. Over 1200 volunteers including groups, families, children, teens and adults are involved in several different volunteer projects through out McKinney and surrounding areas. This is a great opportunity for McKinney citizens to give back to their community. Recent projects have included landscaping, home repair projects, hosting a party for nursing homes residents, making tray favors for Meals on Wheels, food collection for the local food pantry and much more. This year’s event is scheduled for Saturday, October 23...more details to follow.

Take a Hike! For Your Community, The second annual Take A Hike! for your community was held Saturday, March 27, 2010. This unique collaborative, community fundraiser is hosted by Volunteer McKinney Center and the Heard Natural Science Museum. Over twenty nine different organizations participated in this year's event held at the Heard Natural Science Museum. [Read More]

The 9th annual Volunteer Recognition Celebration - A Matter of the Heart was held Thursday, April 22nd at McKinney Christian Academy.  Volunteers were honored from several different areas including education, non profit, business, etc. [Read More and see pictures]

Get Connected - Volunteers and those who work with volunteers can get connected through several networking programs available through the Volunteer McKinney Center. If you work directly with volunteers and would like to network with others that do the same, attend the quarterly Collin County Volunteer Managers Roundtable brown bag networking opportunity. If you are in a leadership role at your organization, make sure you attend our quarterly our Leadership Lunch.

H.E.A.R.T.H. - (Hearts Energized And Ready To Help) is a new volunteer driven home rehab program that has been developed by the City of McKinney and Volunteer McKinney Center. The City of McKinney receives federal money for their Block Grant program to assist needy homeowners in their home repairs. Because of federal guidelines and limited funds, not all applications will be accepted. Volunteer McKinney Center will facilitate matching volunteer groups willing and able to help with all or some of the repairs. The projects will be listed on our online volunteer match program.