A committee comprised of volunteer managers from a variety of non-profits organized a "Join Hands Day" to celebrate volunteers from all sectors of our island community. We got the local newspaper on board to provide publicity which was the key to our success in creating a community wide recognition event. We did a mailing to over 100 organizations asking them to create "hand prints" representing their volunteers. They were encouraged to be as creative as they wanted in making the "hands". We collected over 1000 very unique hands that were strung up in a park for a day. There was also some refreshments and entertainment to celebrate the day. The simple act of submitting a hand print was fun for the volunteers. The newspaper ran 6 separate articles to spot light the event which generated awareness of volunteerism and showed much appreciation to our local volunteers.