Don't just sit there....Do something!

There is no end to the good ideas that can make a difference.
Here are some suggestions:
►Repair a neighbor’s home.
►Help your school library catalog the new books you get donated.
►Scrub, paint & landscape a school.
►Collect toys for families in need.
►Collect food for a food bank.
►Clean up your neighborhood.
►Take flowers to a senior citizen’s home.
►Do yard work or house cleaning for elderly or disabled.
►Make goodies for a homeless shelter.
►Visit a veteran’s home & share stories.
►Clean out your attic & give clothes to the needy.
►Have a walk-a-thon to raise $$ for your favorite cause.
►Clean up a park or a hiking trail.
►Paint over graffiti.
►Plant flowers in public places.
►Serve lunch at a soup kitchen.
►Reach out to abused women in shelters.
►Read to a child.
►Deliver food to AIDS patients.
►Clean up a beach.
►Give free blood-pressure tests.
►Throw a group baby shower for teens in unwed mother programs.
►Adopt a grandmother/grandfather at a home for the elderly.
►Do a joint project with a local jail. ►Clean & repair wheelchairs.
►Have a puppet show for hospitalized kids.
►Recycle can and give the money to a homeless family that needs a security deposit for an apartment.
►Record books for learning disabled children or the blind.
►Fulfill a wish for a needy family.
►Collect warm clothing.
►TEACH SOMEONE TO READ.
►Collect books for children’s programs.
►Mentor an at-risk teen.
►Take children from a homeless shelter on a fun field trip.
►Collect professional clothing for a job placement program.
►Ask a local agency what they need,, & do all you can.
►Teach a child about something you love.
►Make a canned food donation part of admission to your high school football game.
►Hold a party, picnic or scavenger hunt for special needs children.
►Have a senior prom for residents of a nursing home.
Build shelves and fill them at a food bank.
►Replant or plant trees and/or flowers.
►Test the vision & hearing of pre-school children.
►Do practice job interviews for teens, college students & adults. ►SMOKE ALARMS – raise $$ buy & install EVERYWHERE! ►Contact your local fire department for statistics and ideas.
►Clip coupons and go on a shopping spree for a shelter.
Winterize the homes of seniors.
►Give manicures and hairdos to hospice patients.
►Hold a drug-awareness march.
►Start a friendship with a shut-in.
►Collect warm socks for the homeless.
►Collect stuffed animals for kids in the hospital.
►Volunteer to walk dogs for people who are ill.
►Hold a benefit concert.
►Clean a creek or walking trail.
►Build a playground – or reclaim one from disrepair.
►Beautify a shelter for battered women.
►Have a community garage sale for a cause.
►Hold a benefit car wash.
►Paint a Boys & Girls Club with the kids.
►Interview an elderly person about his or her life.
►Organize a blood drive.
►Teach swimming lessons.
►Teach children about budgeting.
►Collect food and or $$ for your local animal shelter.
►Say “yes” when a young person asks to talk to you about a job.