The United Way Direct Impact Response Team (D.I.R.T.) is a grassroots approach to real community engagement and change.

Once a month, we power through a volunteer project over our lunch hour. Get-your-hands-dirty-you’re-really-going-to-work projects. Show up, get dirty, change your clothes (did we mention that you’re going to get dirty?), go back to your desk and you say to yourself–wow–I really DID something today.

If you’re busy and overcommitted, but you secretly wish that the Justice League was real and that you were on it, DIRT‘s for you.

It’s not glamorous work, but it’s the right thing to do.