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Give something to every person who walks in to your store
Donate books
Write a thank you note to the local school super attendant
Bring extra paper to the day care
Take up a collection to purchase items needed by a nonprofit organization
Write a something positive to your local politician even if you disagree with their views. You can comment on how there did or looked.
Write a thank you note for a media person
Give your old glasses to the Lyons club
Give new shoes to people
Donate something nice for someone
Buy business cards for a business owner
Bring a flower for all the people in an office
Ask business to donate something for people who give blood, and coordinate a blood drive. Give the items the items to the people who donated blood
Buy flower for someone in the hospital you do not know
Buy flowers for the business owner
Rent a boat for a your group for the kids and go fishing
Buy food for someone you do not know–
Carry inexpensive, pocket-sized rain ponchos in your car and hand them out to pedestrians who are getting drenched in a downpour.
Ask your children to go through their toys and donate some of them to children who are less fortunate
Pay for a random persons meal
Donate blood.
Buy bubbles for preschool
Get groups of friends- and sing some songs like caroling but not during Christmas time
Host a party for people who are passing by your party.
Volunteer to give a ride for a person who has cancer
Buy a suit for someone.
Volunteer decorate, serve lunch, or sell raffle tickets at a community event for the elderly, students, or a nonprofit organization.
Sort, wrap, organize, or deliver presents for people who can’t do it themselves.
Celebrate senior citizens or students by having a special holiday dinner. Set up the dining room, prepare and serve dinner,
Visit elderly and play games
Buy people blankets
Make a gift for the military
Donate frequent flyer miles
Distributed Hershey’s kisses to all the business owners in your town or all you neighbors
Send positive letters to a juvenile detention facility
Gather a few neighbors to adopt an entrance to your neighborhood and periodically have a get-together to keep it weeded and cleaned up. Serve refreshments and make it a Saturday morning party!
Collect teddy bears for police officers to give to traumatized children. .
Start an inter-generational program, in which senior citizens help schoolchildren with their reading, writing, or math.
Sew comfort items for the police trauma unit or a children’s hospital.
Visit hospitals with smiles, treats, and friendly conversation for patients
Give a pair of tickets to a baseball game or concert to a stranger.
Stop by a nursing home, and visit a resident with no family nearby.
Have a clean-up party in the park
Drop off a plant, cookies, or donuts to the police or fire department.
Organize a scout troop or service club to help people with packages at the mall or grocery.
Donate photographs, diaries, letters, and books with historic significance to your library’s history/genealogy department
Host special programs or speakers at libraries or bookstores.
Offer to answer the phone for the school secretary for ten minutes.
Volunteer to read to students in the classroom.
Write notes of appreciation and bring flowers or goodies to teachers or other important people, such as the principal, nurse, or custodian
Collect goods for a food bank or shelter.
Make cards to give to the residents.
Sing for the seniors
Build a library of inspirational, videos, and books for people
take homemade bread, cookies etc. and deliver a plate to local businesses, schools, government offices, rec center etc.
Adopt a homeless pet from the humane society.
Volunteer to read to students in the classroom.
Open the door for another person.
Buy a roll of brightly colored stickers and give it to the school
Create a craft project or build a bird house with a child.
Plant a tree
Create a local garden for the community
Organize an ice cream social
Organize a tea party for people you do not know