Projects well-suited for families:
- Work in a garden or on a farm
- Serve in a soup kitchen or shelter (depending on requirements)
- Lend a local environmental group a hand with a project
- Community park, trail, or beach cleanup
Projects that might tap into your specific skills:
- Tutor kids or families at a local community center, church, or library
- Help a local nonprofit with strategic or administrative work
- Conduct a half day college essay-writing or application workshop
- Conduct a half day financial aid application workshop
- Conduct a seminar on financial literacy for students or local residents
- Conduct a career exploration day at a high school or middle school
- Conduct a tech day for kids
- Conduct a seminar on how to start a business
- Conduct a seminar on startups and entrepreneurship
- Participate in a local free legal clinic
- Conduct a seminar on empowering girls
- Run a 5K or attend a dance-a-thon for charity
- Bake/prepare foods for donation (or sale with proceeds going to charity)
- Work on knitting or sewing projects for the homeless or babies in the NICU
Projects that might work from afar:
- Tutoring or mentoring high school students online
- Organizing assistance for victims of disasters near or far
- Sending care packages/thank you letters to service people overseas
- Sponsoring someone else involved in a service activity
Projects that involve donating resources:
- Collect household items or clothes for a local food bank, shelter, religious or community organization
- As a club or group, adopt a local school
- Collect books and donate them to a school or library
Projects that are more labor-intensive:
- Participate in a Habitat for Humanityproject
- Contribute to a barn raising or renewal project for a community or nonprofit organization
- Contribute painting or handy-person work through a neighborhood organization