- Practice a random act of kindness.
- Collect canned goods for a food bank.
- Volunteer at a local soup kitchen.
- Support our troops. Send a care package to deployed troops, veterans, wounded soldiers, or to families of soldiers who are deployed overseas.
- Donate books, novels and other reading materials to libraries and schools.
- Teach a computer skill to an elderly neighbor.
- Use social media to spread the word about a worthy cause through posts on your account.
- Participate in a clean up of a street or a local park.
- Volunteer at a homeless shelter – be a greeter, help cook, serve, clean up.
- Volunteer at a local animal shelter – help clean up, walk/play with animals.
- Read a book to a child, a blind person or an older neighbor.
- Cheer up a sick friend with a visit or a phone call.
- Collect old magazines and donate them to day care centers.
- Clean up a vacant lot.
- Collect grocery coupons to give to a local food bank.
- Volunteer your talents at a charity event.
- Adopt from a local Humane Society.
- Visit a nursing home – read a book, bring a card, or just be a good listener.
- Shovel snow for an elderly or disabled neighbor.
- Deliver Valentine cards/cookies to the sick, the elderly, the homeless and their caregivers.
- Give a thank you card to those who serve you every day – bus driver, barista, janitor.
- Leave your waiter an extra tip.
- Clean your closets and donate clothes, toys, household items etc. to Goodwill or the Salvation Army,
- Participate in charity walks/runs that raise money for a good cause.
- Offer to take care of a pet for an ill or homebound neighbor.
- Donate coloring books to hospital emergency rooms.
SOURCES
philanthropywriting.com/.../16-charitable-ways-to-celebrate-valentines-d...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../valentines-volunteer-da...
whippycake.com/2012/02/volunteer-for-valentines-day/
www.volunteermatch.org/
www.volunteerguide.org
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