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April 09, 2010

UGM’s Orange Day 2010 was a phenomenal success! Vancouver came alive with fresh perspectives, photography and philanthropy, and the result made us all speechless. Your energy, your enthusiasm and your dedication in helping Vancouver’s homeless has humbled us all.

Just under 3000 people received a delicious meal on Good Friday (each one of them receiving an orange), and it was because of you. Your support of Orange Day means that from Easter dinner and beyond, you’re changing lives.

Abbotsford web agency Domain7 donated their time, energy, and innovation  to develop the Orange Day microsite, which orange-ified hundreds of visitors over Orange Day’s weeklong duration. Domain7’s talented team, mixed e-commerce, content submission systems, and a great user experience. We’d like to thank Domain7; without them, Orange Day (and the meals that help change lives) couldn’t have happened!

(Click here to view photos from the day on Flickr)

For everybody who tweeted, Facebooked or blogged about Orange Day: UGM is proud to call you our supporters. You’re different. You’re bold. You love your city.  You step out of your homes and to occupy that beautiful space between people who need help and the people who can help. Your platforms, your friends, as always, are inspiring people like us to work together to solve Vancouver’s complex social issues.

It’s not “the internet” that’s making all this fantastic change happen, it’s us. It’s you and me. It's people like Kris Krug, Raincoaster, Hummingbird604 and KanpekiYume coming together for the Orange Day TweetUp. It's people like Bev Davies, Peter Andersen, Zach Bulick and John Biehler walking around Gastown for the Orange Day PhotoWalk. It's the blog entries we've seen from people like Miss604, Gus Digital, MainWriter and AHA Media. It’s the cacophony of beautiful tweets that formed a chorus of encouragement for our neighbours in need.

Thank you, Vancouver.

MORE ON ORANGE DAY:

GlobalTVBC aired a fantastic piece on UGM’s Easter Meal that really helped explain that UGM offers “more than a meal.” Click here to watch the six-minute segment and hear about how UGM guests like Jeff and Van are having their lives changed.