The Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service is considered the largest MLK Day of Service event in the United States. Co-chair Todd Bernstein explains how a collaboration of community organizations has effectively established and sustained a central organizing system that matches volunteers with existing service projects and provides technical assistance to organizations holding their own Day of Service activities. In 2001, the group had over 25,000 volunteers serving in several hundred projects. This practice is from an interview presented on the For Non-profit Organizations website.

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