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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
CONNECT. EQUIP. MOBILIZE.