DIY Ideas

• Cook a meal for a neighbor
• Donate your towels or blankets to an animal shelter
• Send encouragement cards to a nursing home
• Sign up to give blood
• Pick up trash at your local beach
• Send a thank-you email to a friend
• Help an elderly person with their shopping
• Create military care kits for those serving overseas
• Mow the lawn for a single parent
• Read a book to a person who is visually impaired
• Help register people to vote
• Deliver encouraging cards and gifts to patients at a local hospital
• Write an op-ed advocating for a cause you are passionate about
• Knit or crochet baby blankets to donate to hospitals or homeless shelters
• Coach a youth sports team
• Give free music lessons to schoolchildren
• Organize a summer reading program for children
• Teach computer skills to seniors
• Host a bingo night for nursing home residents
• Make birthday cards for the elderly
• Make birthday cards for children in the foster care system
• Pick up trash around your neighborhood
• Foster an animal from the local shelter
• Care for your neighbor’s pets while they are away
• Train your pet to be a therapy animal and bring it to hospitals or nursing homes
• Build a birdhouse and give to a neighbor
• Organize a carpool to reduce car emissions
• Offer to babysit for a family in need
• Collect grocery coupons to give to a local food bank
• Help repair or paint a local homeless shelter
• Build flower boxes for Habitat for Humanity houses
• Organize a winter clothes drive to collect coats, hats, scarves, and gloves to be donated
• Paint over graffiti in your neighborhood
• Organize a free self-defense workshop in your community
• Become CPR certified
• Volunteer as a crossing guard for an elementary school
• Create a newcomers group in your neighborhood to help welcome new families
• Clean up after a disaster
• Volunteer at your local food pantry
• Volunteer (training is free) with Crisis Text Line