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- Make maps of your town for newcomers and highlight useful community resources.
- Design and paint a mural for the outside of your school.
- Survey your school or neighborhood to find out what gifts and talents people have that could advance the school’s mission. Publish the results.
- Survey your school or neighborhoods to find out what people think are issues that need to be addressed. Publish the results.
- Start a petition about an issue of concern to students
- Create a "How to Keep from becoming a Crime Victim" flier
- Paint over graffiti.
- Plan a drug-free club for your school
- Create a public service announcement (PSA).
- Produce an anti-crime anti-drug, anti-violence play and perform it for others.
- Create and distribute a list of hotlines or agency links for kids who might need help.
- Create a hotline, which gives out hotline numbers for kids who need help.
- Work with your school administration to review and improve the school discipline policy.
- Research the need to reduce litter inside and outside your school or other public areas and propose solutions
- Plan a low-maintenance garden on school grounds or other public areas.
- Test school and community drinking water for lead and inform people of lead issues.
- Start or encourage a recycling program at your school.
- Fundraise for money to plant trees or gardens in your community.
- Create a children's interpretive garden
- Start an environmental club at your school.
- Hold a recycling contest.
- Make posters or collages that promote tolerance and understanding of difference. Post them in your school. Start a club to promote peace and tolerance.
- Plan and host an Ethnic Awareness week.
- Find, interview and write histories of diverse people in your community.
- Volunteer to tutor students who need help with academic work or social skills.
- Make New Kid Survival Kits for new students to your school.
- Learn and create a program to teach about good nutrition.
- Interview seniors and report on – personal histories, community, and stories of character…
- Teach a class on the importance of getting healthy and staying healthy.
- Create fliers to distribute to pet owners about the nutritional needs of pets
- Make gift baskets and deliver to seniors.
- Help disadvantaged children make gifts to give to other people.
- Collect shoes, eyeglasses, etc. for children in a third world country
- Purchase or write a children’s reading book and read to and give away books to children in hospitals.
- Make "I Care" Kits for the homeless shelters in your area.
- Hold a clothing drive and deliver items to homeless shelters.
- Prepare food and serve at a homeless shelter.
- Create a cookbook and sell and donate receipts to charity.
- Hold a food, clothing drive and provide to local charity.
- Hold a used book sale. Donate the money to school library or literacy group.
- Collect used and new books to give to a hospital, nursing home, shelter, or preschool.
- Read aloud to a person who is visually impaired.
- Organize a reading hour for children at your school or library.
- Make reading or math flashcards for primary students.
- Set up a buddy system at your school for kids with special needs.
- Fundraise for Braille books for the visually impaired.
- Organize a public issues forum for speakers running for local political office.
- Hold after-school classes to younger latchkey students.
- Create a play that teaches young children how to stay safe at home while their parents are away.
- Make a flyer of after-school safety tips for young children
- Organize a first-aid training session for your school, club, or community
- Create a video on holiday safety tips.
- Sing, perform a play, give a magic show, host a dance, or play an instrument for senior citizens.
- Research your community and write a children's book with a younger student on your community.
- Write stories and story questions to read to younger children.
- Hold an "Elderfair" at a local senior center.
- Become pen pals with residents of a local senior center.
- Create a time capsule with items from students and senior citizens.
- Work with senior citizens to create a "then and now" book on themes such as school, childhood games, work, recreation food, music, etc.
- Create "need to know" packets for students coming into next year's class.
- Create teaching aids for a nearby day care center.
- Start a bird sanctuary. Build birdfeeders, plant trees, write journal entries about birds for younger grades.
- Create a student-run conference on a topic. Have booths, breakout sessions, and speakers.
- Develop a school creed or service slogan and host school assemblies to promote service work
- Establish long-term service programs that future classes can continue.
- Lobby city/state officials to pass laws or ordinances of concern to you.
- Develop booklets on cultures within your school or community. Give them to the library and the Chamber of Commerce
- Translate town pamphlets and flyers into other languages to help community members who do not speak English.
- Organize and host an event to help prepare students making the transition to (middle school, high school, college).
- Begin a youth-philanthropy board and fundraise to support topics of concern to board.
- Conduct water sampling of local streams, lakes and ponds and provide results to State Dept of Natural Resources.
- Study traffic patterns and accident reports for roads around school to evaluate safety issues.
- Organize and administer a school store to sell school supplies and clothing with school logo/mascot and donate profits to charity.
"Ethics in action creates character."
