- Serve dinner at a homeless shelter.
- Deliver a meal to those who cannot join family or friends.
- Run a Turkey Trot to benefit a local charity
- Invite a classmate, neighbor, senior citizen, veteran or family of an overseas active duty military person for a holiday meal.
- Take dishes to public service people - fire station, a police department, emergency call center.
- Visit patients at a hospital.
- Visit a retirement home - decorate, read to an elderly person, listen.
- Support our troops with care packages, e-greetings, e-cards, visit a Veterans Center, or transport patients to appointments.
- Collect food, manage inventory and distribute food at a food bank.
- Lend a hand at the offices of environmental groups.
- Volunteer at your local humane society – walk dogs, socialize cats, help with adoptions, keep facilities clean, work with the public.
- Help a local Special Olympics chapter with sports training, fundraising, administrative help,
- Donate blood at a blood bank.
- Locate a local disaster relief organization and help out.
- Become a literacy volunteer helping illiterate children and adults learn.
- Organize a recognition program for volunteers who lead community organizations.
- Plan an Ethnic Awareness day
- Design a campaign to promote tolerance and understanding of differences.
- Practice random acts of kindness.
- Bring toys to children in the cancer ward of a hospital.
- Read aloud to a person who is visually impaired.
- Help winterize homes in poverty stricken areas.
- Collect old magazines and donate them to day care centers.
- Adopt a “grandfriend”
- Teach your senior relatives and friends how to use a computer
- Donate old eye glasses to an organization or place that recycles them for the needy.
- Hold a “Work Off the Holiday Calories” event the week after Thanksgiving – help a neighbor clean or repair their home, clean a park, build a bookshelf, walk a disabled or senior citizen’s dog; help with repairs at a local homeless shelter.
- Have fun!
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SOURCES
www.dosomething.org/actnow/.../7-volunteer-ideas-thanksgiving-0
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../thanksgiving-volunteer-op_n_1031618.htm...
www.energizeinc.com/press/01nov.html
https://www.justgive.org/donations/ideas-for-volunteering.jsp
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