Community Service and Take Action Projects: What’s
the Difference?
- Volunteer to serve food at a soup kitchen at a time other than the holidays—people are hungry all year long.
- Stock food and pack food boxes at a food bank.
- Perform a skit, a play or show at a nursing home or hospital.
- Teach crafts or organize the residents of a nursing home who can knit or crochet to make blankets for children at a crisis nursery.
- Record tapes or video for young children. Donate to the library or a preschool.
- Volunteer at the library or local school to help promote literacy.
- Do yard work or housework for the elderly.
- Plan an outing for the residents of a nursing home—the zoo, a park, a movie, miniature golf or anything fun and unusual.
- Learn about bicycle safety and share the information with younger girls.
- Perform flag ceremonies for PTA/PTO meetings or other school events.
- Contact local nursing homes, shelters, food banks, schools, local governments, parks, zoos, crisis nurseries, day care programs, domestic violence shelters or other creative locations and ask how girls can best share their time and skills with the organization or community.