1. Volunteer a morning or afternoon of your time at a nursing home, community center, hospital, or food pantry.

2. Offer to shop for groceries or do laundry for an elderly or shut-in neighbor.

3. Campaign for an organization or group that works for a cause you believe in.

4. Spend one day each month (or a special holiday) volunteering at a homeless shelter.

5. Contact your local election board and volunteer to help monitor the voting booths on the next election.

6. Start a Giving Circle with friends or relatives: Giving Circles

7. Call your mom, dad, brother, sister, grandma, aunt, uncle, cousin, friend and make a date to volunteer time TOGETHER.

8. Become a mentor at a nearby school or other educational facility.

9. Give old books, clothing, furniture to a church group, battered women's shelter or local thrift store.

10. Spend a weekend building homes with: Habitat for Humanity

11. Respectfully offer to help a stranger who is physically challenged, whether blind, deaf, in a wheelchair, etc.

12. Get involved planning a charity event or fundraiser for a group or organization that you admire.

13. Offer to coach or assist a coach with a sports team at the local school or children's center.

14. Donate a service you enjoy to a community center or nonprofit group, like baking, accounting, plumbing, writing, etc.

15. Mow the grass, shovel the walk or clean house for an older or disabled neighbor.

17. Spend a Saturday or two working at a nearby ASPCA or animal shelter.

18. Give your Frequent Flyer Miles to: Make a Wish Foundation

19. Buy team uniforms for the local kids' soccer club, Little League or other teams.

20. Set up a system that collects leftover food from local restaurants and delivers it to a food pantry or shelter.

21. Start a block or building association that looks after neighbors and works on local issues and the environment.

22. Spend a day with your entire family cleaning up a local park or playground.

23. Join your State's campaign to keep roadways clean and environmentally friendly: Adopt-A-Highway

24. Teach senior residents at a nearby nursing home or long-term care facility how to use e-mail and the Web.

25. If you're an animal lover, visit The Cat's Meow link below.

~Contributed by Jean at Keeping the Hope Alive

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