The well advertised Disney Parks promotion for 2010 "Give A Day.  Get A Disney Day." has begun.

As a follow up to the wildly successful program in 2009 where anyone could get a free one day park ticket to a Disney World or Disneyland theme park on their birthday, 2010 brings a new element to the free park ticket giveaway.

For 2010 Disney will give away 1 million one day theme park tickets to people who follow the requirements and volunteer a day of their time to one of the available charities.  The time involved varies depending upon the volunteering task, but may be as little as 2 1/2 hours.

To get started you need to go to the DisneyParks website to register.

Once you are there you will see the 3 steps to receiving your free park ticket:

1. Search & Sign Up
2. Volunteer
3. Redeem & Celebrate

You can search for available volunteering opportunities in your area by entering your zip code.  If you don't see anything that fits you, try again in a couple of weeks as it gets updated with new opportunities as the year progresses.

Some key program stipulations include:

• Each person can one earn 1 free ticket, no matter how much they volunteer.
• Anyone who lives in the United States, Puerto Rico, or Canada age 6 or above is eligible to volunteer.
• You must sign up to volunteer through the official Disney Site to qualify.  Volunteer activities outside of thissign-up process do not qualify.
• Ticket quantities are limited and program may end early if allotted tickets are all distributed.
• Volunteer service must be verified, then you will be eligible to print a vocher to take to the park to be traded for a one day ticket to one of the major theme parks.
• There are black out days.  For Disney World you cannot use the free ticket from March 29 - April 8 and July 4th..
• Tickets are non-transferrable.

See the entire program rules and stipulations at the website.

Program Benefits The Community And The Guests
This program sounds like a great way for Disney to help the commuinty and give people an opportunity to easily earn a park ticket to Disney World or Disneyland.  Hopefully it will run smoothly and be a win-win situation for all involved.