Across Northern California, some 1,300 Kaiser Permanente employees and physicians rolled up their sleeves on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, for “A Day ON, Not a Day Off.” Organized through the nonprofit group Hands On, many of the region’s 25 volunteer projects were at schools that partner with Kaiser Permanente on the Thriving Schools initiative.

Watch a short video to see volunteers in action at one Oakland elementary school, and the enthusiastic reaction their work received when students, teachers, and staff returned the following day.

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