1. The Environment
Start a trash pick-up campaign in your neighborhood.
Finish the day with lemonade and cookies for your
team.
Distribute leaflets -- in your community and at school or
in church -- asking citizens to keep the community
clean.
Join a local volunteer conservation team concerned
about pollution in our rivers and streams.
2. The Elderly
Form a neighborhood group to run errands for
incapacitated elderly citizens, including grocery
shopping, picking up trash, raking leaves, painting, etc.
Use your talents (singing, etc.) to entertain the elderly at
senior citizens homes.
Visit regularly with nursing home residents who receive
few or no visitors.
Organize special holiday events for nursing home
residents and for incapacitated senior citizens living at
home.
3. Homeless and Other Indigents
Develop a plan for distributing bag lunches (you
prepare) for the homeless.
Collect coats for the needy.
Collect eyeglasses for the needy.
There are Charlotte-Mecklenburg students who do not
qualify for reduced lunch and, yet, still cannot afford to
purchase school lunch at the regular price. Can you
think of a solution to this problem?
Start and maintain a vegetable garden. Donate
vegetables to a homeless shelter.
Hold a bake sale to raise money for various items
needed at community homeless shelters.
Collect coloring books, crayons, and school items for
young underprivileged children.
PARTNER UP! Hold fundraisers to support the efforts
of other organizations collecting clothing and food for
the homeless: bake sale, car wash, etc.
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4. The Sick
Establish a group to visit the sick children’s ward of a
local hospital; read books to the children; raise money
for inexpensive toys and books.
Organize a 5- to 10-mile race to raise money to fight
cancer, breast cancer, heart disease, etc.
Raise money for caps, or ask the public to donate
caps, to decorate and give to cancer patients who have
lost their hair.
Think of a fundraiser for a fellow student, neighbor, or
any citizen in need of money for surgery and/or
treatment of a serious condition.
Can you juggle? Can you perform magic tricks?
Entertain hospitalized children.
Organize a jump rope marathon or bicycle race or swim
meet to raise money.
5. Orphanages
Research data on orphanages in nations torn apart by
war and those recovering from war. Provide
information to organizations raising awareness to the
plight of war orphans.
Collect books and/or raise money for books to send to
an orphanage of your choice – either at home or
abroad.
6. Taking a Stand (Advocacy, Teaching, etc.)
Take a position on any of the issues mentioned above.
Research and teach younger children the importance
of wearing seat belts; how to be safe when at home
alone; why they should beware of strangers; or why
they should wear helmets when riding bicycles.
Start a youth group to fight crime in your school.
Advocate on behalf of orphans living in war-torn
countries.
Start a letter-writing campaign to members of the State
Legislature and/or Congress; or to your Governor; or to
the Mayor and other local politicians regarding your
stance on issues that have a great impact on students
and other youth.
Develop brochures on school safety, firearms,
smoking, drinking, drug usage, etc.
Get your message to fellow students through school
assemblies and similar activities.
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