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                                        Contacts: Anna Strauss
                                                  (408) 248-1250


                                                  Debbe Stern
                                                  (415) 358-9332


Community Impact Plans First Bay Area-Wide Servathon
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Menlo Park: On October 8, 1994, Community Impact, a Bay Area nonprofit
volunteer organization, is planning the first-ever Bay Area-wide
servathon.  Calling the day "Project Impact", the group will organize
approximately 50 different projects, involving up to 100 volunteers at
each project site.

        The goals of the event are threefold: make it easy for people
to volunteer in their communities; provide much needed services to
local agencies; and raise support for Community Impact's year-round
activities.

        Corporate sponsors to date include Boks, the causal shoe
division of Reebok, McKesson, Hewlett-Packard, Acuson, CH2M Hill, Risk
Management Solutions, and Rolm.

        Project Impact will link volunteers with local service
agencies in their neighborhoods, allowing them to accomplish important
tasks.  Projects will be targeted to people of all ages who want to
become involved with their communities.  In addition, Community Impact
will work with Bay Area employers and other groups such as alumni
organizations to design and organize projects specifically for their
employees and members.

        Volunteers will spend the day on projects such as refurbishing
homeless shelters, planting trees, building trails, and sorting
donations at local food banks.  Volunteers will solicit pledges to
help cover the costs of the projects and support Community Impact's
ongoing activities.

        Project Impact is part of Community Impact's year round effort
to help Bay Area communities by providing busy people of all ages with
fun and convenient ways to volunteer.  Each month, Community Impact,
found in 1988, organizes several one-day volunteer projects in
cooperation with various public and private agencies.

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For more information, call Community Impact at (415) 323-7131