50 Ways to Help Your Community

1. Vote
2. Help shape your government. Become a campaign worker for a local politician.
3. Join Alternative Spring Break.
4. Cook a Thanksgiving dinner for a family that is less fortunate.
5. Help cook/serve a meal at a homeless shelter this holiday season.
6. Around the holidays, organize a group to visit the Post Office and answer some letters to Santa Clause.
7. Get together with some friends to buy holiday presents for a family in need.
8. Participate in the American Cancer Society’s annual Relay for Life.
9. Send a letter to one of America’s veterans or overseas soldiers.
10. Become a volunteer firefighter or EMT at a local volunteer fire department.
11. Adopt a pet.
12. Give blood.
13. Teach a dance class in a local after school program.
14. Get CPR and First Aid certification through the American Red Cross.
15. Become a Big Brother or Big Sister.
16. Support your community and plan a historical tour of Pensacola through Pensacola’s Historic Society.
17. Write a note to a teacher that has had a positive effect on you.
18. Bring other with you when you volunteer.
19. Attend a city council meeting.
20. When visiting someone at the hospital, talk to someone that does not have any visitors.
21. Don’t drink and drive. Volunteer with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
22. Help teach a young child to read through CDAC/Reading Together program.
23. Adopt a “grand-friend” and visit them.
24. Hold an afternoon dance at your local nursing home.
25. Contact your local political representative about key issues.
26. Paint a mural over graffiti.
27. Set up a recycling system.
28. Buy a recyclable mug from the commons to help preserve our rainforests.
29. Teach a senior citizen how to use the computer and the internet.
30. Tutor a student that needs help with homework, or any other school assignments by volunteering to be a teacher’s assistant at the Children’s Service Center.
31. Volunteer to help at a Special Olympics event.
32. Volunteer with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and help test the health of local waters and work on Project Green Shores.
33. Plant flowers in areas that need color.
34. Read books or the newspaper to the visually impaired by becoming a volunteer reader with Sightline.
35. Clean up trash along a river, beach, or park.
36. Create a campaign to encourage biking and walking.
37. Volunteer at the Escambia County Animal Shelter.
38. Help build a home for Habitat for Humanity.
39. Help others learn more about the spread of HIV/AIDS by volunteering with the Community Information Network, Inc.
40. Ask how you can help.
41. Form an outdoor sports/club group through the recreation department.
42. Become a UWF Navigator.
43. Volunteer with the UWF HIV/AIDS committee.
44. Become an organ donor.
45. Help coach little league or another youth event
46. Offer to help a neighbor with an outdoor project.
47. Volunteer with the American Heart Association
48. Ask a single diner to join you for lunch.
49. Donate Money to the Florida Relief Fund at http://www.flahurricanefund.org/
50. Volunteer with children who experience stress and need extra care and support