Here are some ways that you can make a difference easily for another person:
- Deliver fresh-baked cookies to neighbors and others.
- Collect canned goods for a food bank.
- Offer a couple of hours of baby-sitting to single parents for a night out in your neighborhood.
- Volunteer at an agency that needs support help such as Salvation Army and Red Cross.
- Donate time at a senior center with games and activities.
- Give blood.
- Stop by a nursing home, and visit a resident with no family nearby.
- Leave a treat or handmade note of thanks for a garbage man, delivery person or mail carrier.
- Clean graffiti from your neighborhood walls and buildings.
- Organize a clean-up party in your park.
- Give toys to the children at the shelter or safe house.
- Send a gift or gift card anonymously to a friend.
- Organize a clothing drive for a shelter.
- Buy books, backpacks and school supplies for a day care or school.
- In a note slip a $20 bill to a person who you know is having financial difficulty.
- Roll an elderly neighbor’s garbage cans back up the driveway at the end of trash pick-up day.
- Purchase a copy of a good book about kindness, put a card in the middle, and pass it on.
- Pay the toll for the person behind you.
- If a friend or a neighbor is moving, offer to bring food.
- Collect personal care items for homeless shelters and safe houses.
- Take flowers to work and share them with coworkers.
- Get to work before others and leave a piece of candy, brownie, fruit, flower, etc. at every desk attached with a homemade card.
- Leave a cake or other food item in a central area anonymously with a “I appreciate you” note.
- Buy a cup of coffee or snack for someone who’s having a long day.
- Send a prayer note to someone who is having a rough day.
- Bake cookies together with your kids, and take them to a neighbor who needs a lift.
- Pitch in and clean up the yard of a neighbor who is ill, has had surgery recently, or has had a family emergency.
- Volunteer with your children at a soup kitchen.
- Leave a bouquet of flowers on a neighbor’s front step anonymously.
- As a house-warming gift for a new neighbor, ask others to pick their favorite quote to write in a nice book welcoming them to the neighborhood.
- Clean up litter on a stretch of road in your neighborhood.
- Surprise your spouse with breakfast in bed.
- Call your mom just to say, “Hello.”
- Arrange a conference call for the entire family.
- Offer to wash your dog or a neighbor’s dog.
- Make nutritional treats for dogs and cats, and give them to neighbors for their pets. Make extra for animal shelters.
- Plant a tree in your neighborhood.
- Promote a neighborhood cleanup day for homeowners.
- Give houseplants to teachers, friends, or coworkers.
- Select some people in your life who you feel need a special lift and send them a gift: flowers, tickets to a special event, or a gift certificate.
- Help an elderly neighbor by raking leaves, mowing lawn, weeding flower bed, shoveling snow, wash car, clean house, etc.
- Visit widows or homebound individuals. Make them a meal, stop in to say “hi”, or help around the house.
- Spend an evening teaching a senior citizen how to use the computer or internet. You can use the time for painting, drawing, or scrapbooking, too.
- Adopt a “Grand-friend” – every once in a while, pick up the phone, send an email, write a letter, or go and visit your “grand-friend.”
- Help an elderly person by picking up their medicine, retrieving their paper, helping them with grocery shopping, taking them “out.”
- Find a person who is homeless – give them a few dollars, or buy them a meal, or simply just talk to them.
- Collect food from neighbors, at school, or from churches – give it to a local family in need, homeless shelter, or charity.
- Volunteer at your local homeless shelter, food bank, or soup kitchen.
- Gather clothes, blankets, toys, books, or basic supplies and donate to local family in need, homeless shelter, Church, or non-profit organization.
- Help with home repairs and yard work of local families / homes in need.
- Tailgating at a sporting event: offer free hot dogs, popcorn, drinks, etc to the community before the game.
- Give away coffee and hot chocolate during a community event.
- Sports season is starting at local schools. Provide bottled water or Gatorade after a local team practice.
- Organize a neighborhood block party.
from KLove
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