Can’d Aid’s people-led approach is growing nationwide

Longmont, Colo., June 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Can help, the people-driven nonprofit with a national presence, is creating a movement that brings people from all walks of life together to become catalysts for change in their communities. At the heart of Can’d Aid’s mission is a sense of community and a genuine belief that everyone has the ability to give back and do good. Since its inception in 2013, the organization has built meaningful relationships with community leaders, nonprofits, volunteers and corporate partners to drive real change.

Through a unique and integrated approach that encompasses sustainability, disaster relief, physical health and mental wellbeing, Can’d Aid’s programs provide critical resources to communities in need and create transformative impact across the country.

While these impacts are tangible, you can see them in murals throughout communities, on children riding bikes with Can’d Aid logos on their helmets, and in parks where volunteers help clean outdoor spaces, but the movement, that Can’d Aid builds is more abstract. The movement and sense of good that Can’d Aid makes available to volunteers across the country is woven into the hearts of communities.

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One of Can’d Aid’s core programs is disaster relief, where the nonprofit works to deliver emergency drinking water to communities in need. In 2016, at the height of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, Can’d Aid delivered 200,000 cans of drinking water to the community.

Five years later, in 2021, a Flint resident who had received and relied on clean drinking water from Can’d Aid for several months rejoined the movement when they volunteered alongside their employer, Journeys, to raise skateboards to build for needy children by Can’. d Program Treads + Trails by Aid. That pay-it-forward moment amplified the power of what a single act of kindness can do, and how easily the ripple effect of…