Everyday Ways to Serve

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• Deliver a meal, flowers or baked goods to a neighbor
• Help an elderly neighbor with yard work or household chores
  
• Keep gift cards or water bottles in your car for homeless and unhoused individuals
  
• Make a meal for a coworker
  
• Pay for the person behind you in the drive-thru line
  
• Offer to babysit for free for foster parents
  
• Recycle and reduce food waste within your household
• Send thank you letters to veterans, service members or first responders
  
• Tip one dollar extra
• Deliver baked goods to local firefighters or police officers
  
• Donate diapers and other baby essentials, such as formula or onesies, to a pregnancy aid center
• Give board games to a local senior center
• Organize a community clean up day
  
• Organize a school supply drive with local businesses
  
• Send greeting cards to a nursing home
• Throw a birthday party for a child in need
• Plant a community garden