What are some good Community Service ideas?

Question

What you have done in the past or know of. Please share your experiences also.
Thank you.

i'm talking about volunteer work...it can be group or alone...just general community service

Answer 1

When I lived in Austin, I volunteered at the People's Community Clinic and helped purge files of inactive clients, people who hadn't been to the clinic in a specific number of years. They usually had a number of different volunteer positions. Find a public health clinic in your area and ask them what you might be able to do.

Also, go to your public library and ask if they have any openings that might fit your schedule for reading to children or the visually impaired. There are also a number of programs to help with adult literacy or to help developmentally disabled citizens to learn independent living skills such as grocery shopping, menu development, basic cooking skills, home safety, budgeting, how to balance their checking account, even how to write a check.
Lots of things that we take for granted and that we have mastered need to be patiently taught to persons with disabilities.

Another way to go, of course, is the Big Brother/Big Sister program. Or you might volunteer to help out a foster parent with their family a few nights or weekends.

There's really so very many volunteer opportunities out there that are so personally rewarding. Just get out there and look.

Answer 2

I tutor African refugees from Sudan, Somalia, Liberia, Togo, etc. I do this both in my home and in an afterschool program sponsored by non-profit interfaith organization. It can be difficult, particularly because I work from 8:30 - 5, but they're great kids and many of them really need the help, particularly with reading. Some of these kids have no experience with school or literacy at all when they come here so they need all the support and guidance they can get.

I have become so close with three of my students that they will be standing up in my wedding (2 jr. bridesmaids and a flowergirl). In addition to being my friends, they have inspired me to go back to school and get my M.Ed., which I just completed recently. I'm so blessed to have them in my life.

In most areas, your community center, church, school, or immigrant advocacy group can probably point you in the right direction. I found the various organizations I work with through a website called Volunteer Chicago, which matches volunteers with various organizations.

Best of luck to you! God bless!

Answer 3

What do you mean by community service ideas? Are you thinking about "projects?" Are you thinking about doing community service for school?

For volunteer work:

Hospitals- Children's Sections- entertain children, read, keep them company before surgery

Nursing Homes- visit the elderly, help with programming, send cards, read to them

Homeless Shelters- Help at meal time. Maybe find some activities for children there. (help with homework?)

Libraries- help the Friends of the Library with book sales and other fund raising projects. Sometimes the children's floor needs volunteers for craft days, etc.

Good Neighbors- If you have this organization in your town- this group gathers food items, clothing, etc for the needy

I hope some of these ideas help.

Answer 4

I have done a variety of different community service projects. In Rochester, New York where I reside we have something here known as AmeriCorps which is like the 2000's answer to the Peace Corps. They provide a variety of services on a volunteer basis to a number of different human services agencies, and other not for profit organizations. You might try to see if you have a local chapter in your area, or contact your city hall to see where you could offer your services. It's one of the most unselfish ways of giving back to your community; and there is truly more happiness in giving than receiving.......

Answer 5

Read to someone who is blind (through volunteer bureau, be assigned to someone who needs help)

Visit shut-ins(like a neighbor)

Bring food to people who are incapacitated( can also be a neighbor)

Clean & cook for the elderly

handing out warm clothing & blankets to the homeless in Winter, a friend & I purchase imperfect blankets & comforters from factory(relatively inexpensive) & hand out

Providing warm food out on the streets for runaways & homeless A priest in our city drives out with a van equipped with hot plate, etc. and provides a warm spot & meal for a few minutes to these people.

Story telling for free to kids in impoverished neighborhoods at rec or community centres.

Sponsor a child through school. Can be a shared project or individually. Pay a child's tuition and/or school supplies for a school year or part of it.(Elementary or High School))

Answer 6

I volunteer with young children (2-4) at a housing project's headstart daycare. If you like working with children there are plenty of opportunities to volunteer at hospitals, schools, churches etc.

Answer 7

Your local homeless shelter can always use volunteers to serve in the food lines and they accept help from all ages

Answer 8

Check out some animal shelters. Imagine getting love from all those 4 legged cuties

Answer 9

Well what I do is help out in my school and then I get communtiy hours