• Scrub and paint a public school.

• Collect toys for families who lost homes in fires or floods.

• Give food to a food bank.

• Make a canned food donation part of admission to your high school game.

• Take flowers or needed articles to a senior citizen’s home.

• Hold a party, picnic or scavenger hunt for children with special needs.

• Visit a veteran’s home.

• Have a “senior” prom for residents of a nursing home or adult day-care center.

• Build shelves—and fill them—at a food bank.

• Organize a walk-a-thon for your favorite cause.

• Plant flowers at your school or other public places.

• Clean up a park or a hiking trail.

• Stencil storm drains to curb dumping.

• Clip coupons and make purchases for a shelter.

• Give manicures and hairdos to hospice patients.

• Read to a child or adult.

• Volunteer to walk dogs for ill people.

• Visit the children’s wing of a local hospital.

• Hold a benefit concert for your cause.

• Clean a section of a creek.

• Build a playground, or reclaim it from trash or graffiti.

• Beautify a shelter for battered women.

• Have a community rummage sale for a cause.

• Have a benefit car wash.

• Bake goodies for seniors and deliver with a song.

• Paint a Boys or Girls Club.

• Fulfill a wish for a needy family.

• Offer your translation services to a local school.

• Record books, newspapers or magazines for the visually impaired.

• Adopt a school.

• Adopt a grandmother/grandfather.

• Clean up your neighborhood.

• Throw a mass baby shower for teens in unwed mother programs.

• Do yard work for the elderly or disabled.

• Make food for a homeless shelter.

• Clean out your garage and give clothes to the Salvation Army or a similar agency.

• Replant trees in fire-damaged areas.

• Paint over graffiti with an adult group.

• Serve meals at a soup kitchen.

• Winterize the homes of seniors.

• Raise money to buy books for your local library.

• Give warm socks to the homeless.

• Feed AIDS patients.

• Volunteer as a docent at museums.

• Take your pet to visit hospital patients and shut-ins.

• Have a marathon sewing session to make quilts for hospital patients, one-size-fits-all dresses for rape victims whose clothing is taken as evidence.

• Offer computer training to low-income adults.

• Clean and repair wheelchairs.

• Recycle cans and give the money to those in need.

• Clean up a park.

• Assist the elderly in filling out forms.