1. Volunteer at a shelter
  2. Donate to a food bank
  3. Clean up trash in your neighborhood
  4. Read a book to a child
  5. Buy a homeless person a meal
  6. Vote
  7.  Attend a city council meeting
  8. Create a Youtube reality series that showcase a great cause
  9. Walk dogs at the local humane society
  10. Start a study group with fellow students
  11. Tutor high/middle school students
  12. Mentor a child
  13. Recycle paper, plastics, and cans
  14. Educate people on how to take care of the planet
  15. Share your expertise
  16. Fight negativity with kindness and compassion
  17. Create a Public Service Announcement to bring awareness to a social or environmental cause
  18. Start a non-profit
  19. Introduce someone to STEM
  20. Teach a computer skills workshop at a local library
  21. Volunteer at a Boys and Girls Club
  22. Contact a state representative about issues in your community
  23. Donate clothes
  24. Donate books to a local library
  25. Hold a canned food drive
  1. Speak out against racism, sexism, bullying, etc. when it happens
  2. Learn about other cultures in your city
  3. Educate yourself on current and share with others
  4. Visit a museum and tell someone what you learned
  5. Compliment someone
  6. Stop littering
  7. Plant a tree or flowers in your neighborhood
  8. Join and contribute in a professional organization
  9. Start a YouTube series to teach a skill or topic
  10. Walk to your destination instead of driving
  11. Promote others who are impacting the community
  12. Support your friends
  13. Smile
  14. Help someone apply for a scholarship
  15. Teach people how to swim
  16. Teach someone your native language or learn one from someone else
  17. Take 15 minutes each day to observe your surroundings and find a problem
  18. Solve it
  19. Support someone in grief
  20. Stop judging people
  21. Teach someone how to set goals
  22. Help someone edit their resume
  23. Paint a mural
  24. Create a one-day conference to inspire kids
  25. Plant a neighborhood garden
  26. Hold a public forum on community issues and concerns
  27. Volunteer as a crossing guard for a school
  28. Take a financial literacy course and teach it to a teenager
  29. Help people search for jobs
  30. Create a community based learning capstone project for high school students

 

  1. Build a Habitat for Humanity
  2. Start a neighborhood watch group
  3. Start a youth tech team to help kids explore technology
  4. Turn a vacant lot into a neighborhood relaxation space
  5. Host a community science fair
  6. Film a documentary for youth highlighting career alternatives to the entertainment industry
  7. Compile a database of teenage entrepreneurs to inspire other teens
  8. Organize a school supplies drive
  9. Create a website that provides a much needed resource
  10. Create a map of parks, waterways, and other community recreation areas
  11. Design something that helps someone with a disability
  12. Photograph interesting things in your city and encourage people to go experience it
  13. Start a healthy living initiative
  14. Pitch ideas to city officials for repurposing old buildings
  15. Learn and educate people about homelessness
  16. Become a Big Brother/Big Sister to a foster child
  17. Help a community college student find resources to transition to a four-year university
  18. Send a low-income individual a care package
  19. Create a mobile market that brings fresh produce to neighborhoods in food deserts
  20. Make an effort to meet someone new every time you travel and bring back a story or lesson you learned
  21. Carpool to work
  22. Send a letter to a deployed soldier
  23. Become a volunteer firefighter or emergency medical technician
  24. Donate a textbook to a student that can’t afford it
  1. Donate an old computer to school
  2. Use an old computer to teach someone how to build one or install new components
  3. Create student representatives in municipal government so that the youth have a voice
  4. Write a letter to thank someone that had a profound impact on your life
  5. Learn how to give CPR, use a defibrillator, and use an EpiPen
  6. Encourage someone to believe in his or herself
  7. Scan and archive your course notes and share with fellow students
  1. Create a “How to” guide for conquering the toughest classes in your curriculum and publish it
  2. Board up windows on vacant homes in your neighborhood
  3. Return your used bottles to the store for the deposit and donate it to a charity
  4. Use a Do It Yourself kit to show a kid how to repair a broken cellphone screen
  5. Start a “game zone” where people in the neighborhood can go to play sports, board games, network, etc.
  6. Throw a party with STEM themed games for families
  7. Start a week-long camp to teach teens a programming language
  8. Create a map of careers paths leading from your degree to help someone visualize the opportunities in your field
  9. Teach at vacation bible school
  10. Capture events (through audio, film, photography) that are already making a positive impact in your community and organize an art gallery to display them
  11. Show someone how to overcome a fear
  12. Create a mobile exhibit that can be displayed while traveling via public transportation to teach people something new
  13. Help someone get their idea off the ground
  14. Challenge someone to do something on this list