50 Ways to Volunteer

  1. Attend PTA Meeting
  2. Form a local outdoor activity group
  3. Answer surveys when asked
  4. Donate blood
  5. Start a community garden
  6. Attend town meetings
  7. Organize a social gathering to welcome a new neighbor
  8. Participate in political campaigns
  9. Join or start a babysitting cooperative
  10. Run for public office
  11. Have family dinners
  12. Join a nonprofit board of directors
  13. Volunteer at the library
  14. Ask neighbors for help and reciprocate
  15. Tell friends and family about social capital and why it matters
  16. Gather a group to clean up a park or a cemetery
  17. Take dance lessons with a friend
  18. Host a block party or a holiday open house
  19. Host a potluck supper before your Town Meeting
  20. Give to your local food bank
  21. Sing in a choir
  22. Get to know your children?셲 teachers
  23. Become an organ donor
  24. Form a computer group for local senior citizens
  25. Help coach Little League or other youth sports-even if your child isn?셳 playing
  26. Audition for community theater or volunteer to usher
  27. Attend home parties when you?셱e invited
  28. Attend your children?셲 recitals, plays and athletic events
  29. Register to vote and cast your ballot
  30. Tape record your parents??earliest recollections and share them with your children
  31. Volunteer your special skills to an organization
  32. Get to know the clerks and salespeople at your local stores
  33. Form a "tools cooperative" with neighbors and share ladders, snow blowers, etc
  34. Start a lunch gathering or discussion group with co-workers
  35. Plan an "Walking Tour" of a local historic area
  36. Eat breakfast at a local gathering or discussion group with co-workers
  37. Stop and make sure the person on the side of the highway is OK
  38. Give your park a weatherproof chess/ checkers board
  39. Don?셳 gossip
  40. Get involved with Brownies of Cub/ Boy/ Girl Scouts
  41. Return a lost wallet or appointment book
  42. Form or join a bowing team
  43. Join the volunteer fire department
  44. When somebody says, "government stinks" suggest they help fix it
  45. Bake cookies for new neighbors
  46. Turn off the TV and talk with friends or family
  47. Join a carpool
  48. Offer to help a neighbor with and outside project
  49. Participate in walk-a thons
  50. Ask a single diner to share your table at lunch