70 Ways to make a Difference…….By David Carr
Giving Back to our community makes our community a better, stronger, happier place
Giving Back to our community begins to remake less desirable places
Giving Back to our community creates hope and new dreams
Giving Back to our community makes other people feel better about themselves
Giving Back is one of the ways we become more of the person we hope to become, and were meant to be
Giving Back to our community creates the opportunity to make new connections and friends with similar interests
Giving Back to our community creates the opportunity to display our occupation in a positive, connected light
- Buy and plant flowers
- Buy and plant vegetables in a flower garden
- Grow flowers in your business or workspace, then plant them
- Grow vegetables in your business or workspace, and then donate them
- Clean up or adopt a public space
- Plant and maintain a community garden
- Donate a bench to a community garden
- Organize an art show in your business or workspace
- Deliver cookies to people in waiting rooms
- Help someone with a spring clean up
- Help someone de-clutter their basement
- Help someone paint his or her house
- Help someone take care of their yard
- Grow houseplants in your business or workspace, then donate them
- Offer Professional skills to those in need, like a haircut, car repair, counseling, childcare, dentistry, flu shots, or whatever you do
- Answer phones at a non-profit
- Help do anything at a non-profit agency
- Have a community movie night in your business or workspace
- Organize a food drive for a local food pantry in your business or workspace
- Build or maintain a hiking trail
- Adopt a food Pantry
- Sponsor a youth sports team
- Coach a sports team for children
- Teach a senior citizen how to use the Internet
- Make a social networking site for a senior citizen
- Drive needy people to essential appointments
- Prepare food for someone who cannot cook
- Organize a coat collection in your business or workspace
- Organize a scrap booking party for a group of people in your business or workspace
- Throw a party at a local bar or restaurant to raise money for people or a good cause
- Find old bikes, repair them and give them to children or needy people
- Find old bikes, repair them, Paint them yellow, and leave them on the street as Donated Share Bikes
- Participate in Make a Difference Day
- Donate school supplies to children
- Organize a homework help center in your business or workspace
- Help children write a story in your business or workspace
- Help children illustrate a story in your business or workspace
- Read to children at a story hour in your business or work space
- Teach an adult or child how to read in your business or workspace
- Sponsor a musical instrument petting zoo in your business or work space
- Help decorate for the holidays at somebody’s house or apartment
- Run a weekly yoga or positive visualization group in your business or work space
- Volunteer at an animal shelter
- Sponsor a pet at an animal shelter
- Organize an adopt a pet day at your business or workspace
- Organize a monthly hike or bird watching event
- Take kids fishing
- Adopt a playground
- Read to kids in a hospital
- Visit children in a hospital
- Dress up like a clown at a hospital
- Do a magic show at a hospital
- Read to children in a homeless shelter
- Teach people to read in a homeless shelter
- Teach people to read at a soup kitchen
- Cook food at a soup kitchen
- Create a penny war at a local school or community center then have an election of nonprofits to see who gets the money in your business or work space, or split it up evenly
- Conduct a Radius Litter Patrol around your workplace
- Collect and donate soap and toilet paper
- Collect diapers and donate to a local Diaper Bank
- Organize a Diaper Bank in your business or workspace
- Teach basic sewing in your business or workspace
- Teach people to source broken clothing in your business or work space
- Take somebody food shopping
- Do healthy foods shopping for a shut in or disabled person
- Pay for somebody to have food delivered
- Use a supermarket pick and pull to organize the order, and then deliver to the person who has no car
- Join OneBrick.org
- Teach Sustainable Nutrition in your business or work space
- Organize a quit smoking support group in your business or workspace
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