Ways to Serve
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- Deliver a meal, flowers or baked goods to a neighbor
- Help an elderly neighbor with yard work or household chores
- Keep gift cards or water bottles in your car for homeless and unhoused individuals
- Make a meal for a coworker
- Pay for the person behind you in the drive-thru line
- Offer to babysit for free for foster parents
- Recycle and reduce food waste within your household
- Send thank you letters to veterans, service members or first responders
- Tip one dollar extra
- Deliver baked goods to local firefighters or police officers
- Donate diapers and other baby essentials, such as formula or onesies, to a pregnancy aid center
- Give board games to a local senior center
- Organize a community clean up day
- Organize a school supply drive with local businesses
- Send greeting cards to a nursing home
- Throw a birthday party for a child in need
- Plant a community garden
- Volunteer at a local animal shelter
- Become a mentor for at-risk youth
- Donate new or gently-used toys to a local nonprofit
- Donate gently used clothes or home goods to a not-for-profit thrift store
- Donate hygiene products to a ministry that serves homeless and unhoused individuals
- Give clothes or personal care products to a nonprofit supporting survivors of human trafficking
- Host a lemonade stand, carwash, yard sale or penny drive to raise money for your favorite nonprofit
- Join a home build
- Organize a canned food drive in your neighborhood and donate collection to local food bank
- Pack fuel bags at a food bank for food-insecure kids and families
- Volunteer to provide administrative services or clerical work to a nonprofit for free
- Serve meals at a soup kitchen
