Service-Learning is a mandatory graduation requirement
Here are 101 ideas get your required 10 hours your freshman and sophomore years and your 20 hours for your junior and senior years:
Use one of these ideas or come up with ideas of your own:
- Volunteer to serve and wash dishes for the Community Theater.
- Help with Cornfest.
- Work at a church bazaar.
- Organize a project for veterans – or help with one.
- Participate in Disaster Training classes.
- Help stuff envelopes for a local organization
- Help at Emergency Management training exercises.
- Volunteer to read stories to younger children, or better yet-
- Help teach a child to read.
- If you like reading, go to a nursing home and read to residents.
- Help with Autumn Blaze Days.
- Join F.C.C.L.A.
- Clean up after events like tractor pulls or mud runs.
- Volunteer to help deliver meals for the senior center.
- Join K.A.Y.
- Make “I Care” kits to send to soldiers stationed over seas.
- Join T.S.A.
- Volunteer at Eckan to pack and hand out food.
- Donate pop tabs for Ronald McDonald House.
- Adopt a “grand friend” and visit and help them.
- Go to an adult care facility and play games with residents.
- Go to a nursing home and help decorate for holidays.
- Rake leaves for a senior citizen.
- Help a neighbor or a senior citizen shovel out their driveway.
- Run errands for an elderly person in your neighborhood.
- Teach a Senior citizen how to use a computer or the internet.
- Paint a mural (with permission) somewhere in town.
- Work with local police to help set up a safety program for kids.
- Tutor a student who needs help in a subject you’re good at.
- Organize or donate to a canned goods drive.
- Organize or donate to a warm coat drive.
- Clean up a vacant lot or a local park.
- Organize a campaign to raise money for a city improvement.
- Plant flowers in a public area that could use some color.
- Pick weeds and help maintain Peggy’s Garden.
- Volunteer time working on the 4th street gardens.
- Volunteer to help kids with special needs.
- Sign up to be a Big Brother or Big Sister.
- Donate toys to Toys for Tots or to a children’s hospital.
- Write a letter to a political leader - get others to sign it.
- Organize a public issues forum in your community.
- Vote if you are 18 – get your 18 yr. old friends to if you are not.
- Offer to help a candidate pass out campaign materials.
- Plant a tree in memory of someone.
- Help people set up recycling systems for their homes.
- Organize a carpooling campaign.
- Adopt an acre of rainforest or an endangered animal.
- Clean up trash along one of our creeks or rivers.
- Work on the nature trail.
- Set up a habitat for a particular species.
- Work on a physical fitness campaign.
- Pet-sit for someone or walk a dog for a sick neighbor.
- Volunteer to help with Sunday school/church services.
- Work at a vacation bible school.
- Get trained to be a peer counselor or mediator.
- Send letters to overseas soldiers.
- Volunteer at the Anderson County Library.
- Participate in a walk-a-thon or other events for charity.
- Volunteer in long term care at the Anderson County Hospital.
- Donate to the Anderson County Library book sale.
- Donate goods to a charity garage sale.
- Help collect essential supplies for “Missions of Hope”.
- Start a club that is open to the community.
- Give Blood.
- Volunteer to help with community sports programs.
- Organize a project for National Youth Service Day.
- Write a letter to the editor about an issue you care about.
- Bring someone with you when you volunteer.
- Organize a historical tour of part of Anderson County.
- Adopt an angel from an angel tree – or
- Get together with friends and adopt a family for Christmas.
- Get CPR and First Aid certification.
- Participate in an Adopt-A-Highway program
- Hold a teddy bear drive for At-Risk children.
- Sing for residents at a nursing home.
- Bake cookies and donate them to local volunteers.
- Start a neighborhood welcome committee.
- Volunteer to work at Wild West Days
- Work at the GES or Greeley Grade PTO Events
- Help Out at your county fair
- Work with a hunter’s education or species preservation group.
- Volunteer at one of our local museums.
- Get together with some friends and spruce up a local cemetery.
- Join the Community Band.
- Help with the Rotary (or other) charity auction.
- Work at an ice cream social.
- Work at a food booth or concession stand.
- Volunteer to help at Westphalia Days.
- Help out with the “Fish Trot”.
- Get a group together to paint playground equipment.
- Help the Lions, Rotary etc. with a soup supper.
- Hand out programs and greet people at a community event.
- Help a new student get acquainted with ACHS.
- Organize or work at a haunted house.
- Make a dinner for a needy family.
- Mow a lawn that needs it.
- Help an older resident winterize their home.
- Volunteer to take kids around on Halloween.
- Make Valentines cards for residents at a nursing home.
- Make May baskets for neighbors to let them know you care.
- Help “serve” at Chamber Players performances