- Volunteer at a shelter
- Donate to a food bank
- Clean up trash in your neighborhood
- Read a book to a child
- Buy a homeless person a meal
- Vote
- Attend a city council meeting
- Create a Youtube reality series that showcase a great cause
- Walk dogs at the local humane society
- Start a study group with fellow students
- Tutor high/middle school students
- Mentor a child
- Recycle paper, plastics, and cans
- Educate people on how to take care of the planet
- Share your expertise
- Fight negativity with kindness and compassion
- Create a Public Service Announcement to bring awareness to a social or environmental cause
- Start a non-profit
- Introduce someone to STEM
- Teach a computer skills workshop at a local library
- Volunteer at a Boys and Girls Club
- Contact a state representative about issues in your community
- Donate clothes
- Donate books to a local library
- Hold a canned food drive
- Speak out against racism, sexism, bullying, etc. when it happens
- Learn about other cultures in your city
- Educate yourself on current and share with others
- Visit a museum and tell someone what you learned
- Compliment someone
- Stop littering
- Plant a tree or flowers in your neighborhood
- Join and contribute in a professional organization
- Start a YouTube series to teach a skill or topic
- Walk to your destination instead of driving
- Promote others who are impacting the community
- Support your friends
- Smile
- Help someone apply for a scholarship
- Teach people how to swim
- Teach someone your native language or learn one from someone else
- Take 15 minutes each day to observe your surroundings and find a problem
- Solve it
- Support someone in grief
- Stop judging people
- Teach someone how to set goals
- Help someone edit their resume
- Paint a mural
- Create a one-day conference to inspire kids
- Plant a neighborhood garden
- Hold a public forum on community issues and concerns
- Volunteer as a crossing guard for a school
- Take a financial literacy course and teach it to a teenager
- Help people search for jobs
- Create a community based learning capstone project for high school students
- Build a Habitat for Humanity
- Start a neighborhood watch group
- Start a youth tech team to help kids explore technology
- Turn a vacant lot into a neighborhood relaxation space
- Host a community science fair
- Film a documentary for youth highlighting career alternatives to the entertainment industry
- Compile a database of teenage entrepreneurs to inspire other teens
- Organize a school supplies drive
- Create a website that provides a much needed resource
- Create a map of parks, waterways, and other community recreation areas
- Design something that helps someone with a disability
- Photograph interesting things in your city and encourage people to go experience it
- Start a healthy living initiative
- Pitch ideas to city officials for repurposing old buildings
- Learn and educate people about homelessness
- Become a Big Brother/Big Sister to a foster child
- Help a community college student find resources to transition to a four-year university
- Send a low-income individual a care package
- Create a mobile market that brings fresh produce to neighborhoods in food deserts
- Make an effort to meet someone new every time you travel and bring back a story or lesson you learned
- Carpool to work
- Send a letter to a deployed soldier
- Become a volunteer firefighter or emergency medical technician
- Donate a textbook to a student that can’t afford it
- Donate an old computer to school
- Use an old computer to teach someone how to build one or install new components
- Create student representatives in municipal government so that the youth have a voice
- Write a letter to thank someone that had a profound impact on your life
- Learn how to give CPR, use a defibrillator, and use an EpiPen
- Encourage someone to believe in his or herself
- Scan and archive your course notes and share with fellow students
- Create a “How to” guide for conquering the toughest classes in your curriculum and publish it
- Board up windows on vacant homes in your neighborhood
- Return your used bottles to the store for the deposit and donate it to a charity
- Use a Do It Yourself kit to show a kid how to repair a broken cellphone screen
- Start a “game zone” where people in the neighborhood can go to play sports, board games, network, etc.
- Throw a party with STEM themed games for families
- Start a week-long camp to teach teens a programming language
- Create a map of careers paths leading from your degree to help someone visualize the opportunities in your field
- Teach at vacation bible school
- Capture events (through audio, film, photography) that are already making a positive impact in your community and organize an art gallery to display them
- Show someone how to overcome a fear
- Create a mobile exhibit that can be displayed while traveling via public transportation to teach people something new
- Help someone get their idea off the ground
- Challenge someone to do something on this list