Spinning the spins aside, here are some ideas to make Thanksgiving 'thankful' for others!
1. Practice random acts of kindness.
2. Donate to a food or coat drive.
3.
Deliver a meal to those who cannot join family
or friends.
4.
Run a Turkey
Trot to benefit a local charity.
5.
Invite a neighbor and/or coworker for a holiday
meal.
6.
Deliver cookies to first responders at a fire station and/or police department.
7.
Visit a hospice to hold a hand.
8.
Visit a retirement home to read a book or listen to life stories.
9. Support our troops with care packages, e-greetings,
e-cards, and visit a Veterans Center, and transport patients to appointments.
10.
Collect food, manage inventory and distribute
food at a Food Bank.
11.
Lend a hand at the offices of environmental
groups.
12.
Volunteer at your local Humane Society – walk
dogs, socialize cats, help with adoptions, keep facilities clean, work with the
public.
13.
Help a local Special Olympics chapter with
sports training, fundraising, administrative help.
14.
Donate blood at a Blood Bank.
15.
Locate a local disaster relief organization and
help out.
16.
Become a literacy volunteer for children and/or
adults.
17.
Organize a recognition program for volunteers
who support community organizations.
18.
Plan an Ethnic
Awareness Day to promote tolerance and understanding of differences.
19.
Bring toys to a children’s ward at a hospital.
20.
Read aloud to a person who is visually impaired.
21.
Help serve food at a Homeless Shelter.
22.
Collect old magazines and donate them to day
care centers.
23.
Adopt a ‘grandfriend’.
24.
Donate old eye glasses to an organization or
place that recycles them for the needy.
25.
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.
SOURCES
7 Volunteer
Ideas for Thanksgiving | Do Something www.dosomething.org/actnow/.../7-volunteer-ideas-thanksgiving-0
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