International Gator Day

International Gator Day is designed as a day when Gators come together to volunteer. Each year on the third Saturday of May, Gators worldwide join forces to positively impact their communities. Gator Clubs from Key West to New York to Seattle to Japan and beyond participate in this day of service. This annual event enlists the strength and size of the Gator Nation to help organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, food banks and clean-up/beautification projects. 2010 marks the 12th year of International Gator Day!

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International Gator Day 2011 was very successful

The Gator Club of Jacksonville provided local kids with an opportunity to pursue their dreams.

Time: Saturday, May 21 · 9:00am - 1:00pm
Location: Davis Performing Arts Center, 4012 University Blvd. North

Thank you to our volunteers for our 2011 International Gator Day Project! We assisted the Davis Performing Arts Center which provides at-risk youth in the Greater Jacksonville Community an opportunity to pursue their dreams of a career in the performing arts. We helped build and paint props/sets for their theatre production that took place on June 4th. Everyone's different talents were utilized as we constructed parts of the set, painted background props and even stuffed some fake people for a cafeteria scene! The Davis Center was extremely thankful for our contribution and sent us a thank you letter to let us know we saved them hours of work that they could instead vote to helping the children learn their parts and prepare for their performance. It was an extremely satisfying volunteer project!

Our 2011 Volunteers:
Tracy O'Sullivan
Michael Hall
Christie Pagano
Tiffany Griffith
Sophia Schippnick Almy
Laurie Sheldon


Our volunteers received IGD tshirts and collapsible water bottles as a thank you from the UFAA for participating in the annual and international event.

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The Gator Club® was proud to clean up Jacksonville for International Gator Day 2010!

We decided to help the Keep Jacksonville Beautiful Commission and Clean it Up, Green it Up for our 2010 International Gator Day event. A group of 25 hard-working Gators (and a Boy Scout troop) spent a couple of hours at the Joe Carlucci Boat Ramp & Park and the 2-mile stretch of Heritage River Road (just off Heckscher Drive) picking up discarded items. What a great job everyone did! We gathered around 20 bags of trash and several bags of recyclables. No one guessed what all we would find. We found a couple of old tires, an old suitcase, and a car battery (Who would throw those things out along the road or in a park?!). We also saw a couple of peacocks and had a nice view of the St. Johns River--so it wasn't all dirty trash! Thank you to each who volunteered... we couldn't have done it without you!

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2009 International Gator Day a HUGE Success!

THANK YOU to all Gators who volunteered several hours of their time on Saturday, May 16 to pack boxes of food at the Second Harvest Food Bank that will ultimately be distributed throughout North Florida. The challenge at the beginning of the day was to pack 8 pallets of 36 boxes each. As good Gators will, the goal was surpassed... 10 pallets or 360 boxes were filled. It was hard but fulfilling work and was greatly appreciated by the Food Bank. (See more photos in the Photo Gallery.)

Volunteers:
Michaele Bradford
Carolyn and Chip Nofal
David Hardison
Carol Bullock
Pam Joyner
Sean Seefried
Marfreeia Clarke
Josh and Tynan Rubin
Matt Ziltsberg
Anna Fletcher
Nicole Trueblood
Lauren Hull
Jose Perez
Lauren Caulfield
Bruce Kujawa
Tracy O'Sullivan
Blair DeLaney
Yamilet Rodriquez
Roderick Crabbe
Sue Anderson
Lori Averitt

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