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The second annual United States of Community Service Make a Difference Day Almost-Sleepover will take place on Saturday, October 27, 2012, when kids nationwide host community service-filled almost-sleepover events to celebrate Make a Difference Day, our nation’s largest day of community service, by shining the spotlight on worthy child-centered charities and performing community service to make a difference in communities nationwide. More than 1,200 kids in at least 26 states participated in our 2011 USCS Make a Difference Day Almost-Sleepover–supporting more than 100 charities nationwide.

Large group or small, girls or boys, elementary-school-age kids or high school seniors, a Make a Difference Day Almost-Sleepover is the perfect way for scout troops, youth groups, homeschool groups, birthday parties, sports teams, families, church groups, friends, school clubs, entire schools or entire towns—for anybody and everybody—to join together to make a difference in their community. How small is too small? A few friends getting together to party in their pjs and perform community service in the evening hours of October 27th constitutes an official USCS Make a Difference Day Almost-Sleepover. How big is too big? The sky’s the limit!

Built on Connecticut sisters Delaney and Addie Kenney’s national award-winning 2010 Make a Difference Day Almost-Sleepover project and with the help of friends and co-founding members Willow and Rosalie Coleman, Sophie Marnin, Marlah Hohlfelder and Isabel Kessler, this kid-powered community service event was created by The United States of Community Service, Inc. (USCS), an organization (501c3 nonprofit status pending) dedicated to empowering children to make a difference in their communities, their nation and their world by providing opportunities for children to get involved in community service and working with and supporting the efforts of other child-centered nonprofit organizations. This is the organization’s first community service campaign.