You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.-- Winston Churchill
What can you give: money, time, skill?...
(part 3 of a blog deluge)
Capable of spending time and effort in order to build your community? This list of ideas is for you.
- Offer a free class for others in your area and teach your talent. Think particularly in terms of what you can teach to kids or parents that they would normally have to pay for, and offer it free.
- Volunteer at a consistent time each week at your local school. Reading to children or listening to children read takes a lot of volunteer time, but has huge payoffs.
- Organize a canned food drive.
- Shovel more than your own driveway, or mow more than your own lawn.
- Join a community choir, community orchestra, or audition for community theatre.
- Start a community choir, community orchestra or community theatre troupe.
- Organize a neighborhood swap meet.
- Grow food in a community garden or volunteer to help in a community garden.
- Check out http://treeutah.org/ and help plant trees.
- help cook or serve a meal at the homeless shelter.
- adopt a "grand friend" and write letters to him/her.
- spend some time visiting, singing, or reading to others at a rest home, nursing home, or assisted-living facility.
- hold an afternoon dance at a senior citizen center.
- Tutor.
- plant flowers in public areas that could use some color.
- offer to pass out election materials.
- Help build a home for Habitat for Humanity.
- organize a book drive for your local school or library.
- start a book club for your area.
- participate in a marathon for your favorite charity.
- coach a children's sports team.
- participate in Job Shadow Day (February 2).
- volunteer on a hotline.
- become a Big Brother or Big Sister.
- help children in foster care as a volunteer or as a foster family.
- get CPR and First Aid certified.
- start a neighborhood welcome committee
- organize or participate in a day of service.
There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you don't do them. -Charles D. Gill
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