In the nonprofit world, when organizations spend so much time helping others, they often run out of time to help themselves. When a workday is based around helping others receive proper healthcare or find housing, tasks like simple maintenance get pushed to the corner.
On Wednesday, hundreds of volunteers from around the Ohio Valley spent the day at nonprofit groups across the valley, helping them with those simple, but needed tasks during the annual Sandy O’Haver Day of Caring through the United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley. Businesses throughout the area had employees chip in at various sites.
Staci Stephen, the executive director of the United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley, has been in the nonprofit world for nearly two decades, and she knows how nonprofit employees wear many hats. Pro