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Generation SERVE Project Ideas
Continue to serve your community on your own with these service project ideas.
Environmentalism
Plant a tree or native plants in your yard.
Start a
rain collection system
at your home.
Implement a recycling program at your school, office, church, or other community gathering place.
Plant milkweed or other
wildflowers for the butterflies
that migrate through your city.
Begin composting
.
Clean up litter from your neighborhood parks and green spaces.
Keep bird feeders and a bird bath in your backyard.
Animal Welfare
Consider fostering a dog or cat while they wait to be adopted.
Walk a shelter dog with the help of an adult.
Read to the cats or dogs at a local animal shelter.
Hand out bags of dog food to our homeless community members with dogs.
Make the following items to deliver to a local animal shelter - contact the shelter in advance to see what they will and will not accept.
homemade dog toys
blankets for the kennels
warmers for the bottle baby kittens
cat or dog toys
Donate bags of dog food to Generation SERVE to support our animal welfare activities.
Senior Support
Schedule a time to read with or play games with residents at a local senior facility.
Deliver a care package to a resident at a senior facility during holidays.
Contact a senior facility to see if you can send holiday cards or birthday cards to their residents.
Helping People
Donate your gently used handbags to the Handbags for Hope drive organized by the
Texas Advocacy Project
.
Donate your gently used coats to Coats for Kids organized by the
Junior League of Austin
.
Organize a food drive in your neighborhood or at your school for
Central Texas Food Bank
.
Raise money through a lemonade stand or through your own online fundraiser page for a local nonprofit organization.
Organize a school supply drive at back-to-school time to donate to one of these organizations -
Foundation Communities
,
Manos De Cristo
,
For the Children
,
Communities in Schools
,
Austin Independent School District
,
Hindu Charities for America
,
SAFE
,
Salvation Army
, or your neighborhood school.
Buy or wrap gifts for a family in need through one of these local organizations -
Partnerships for Children
,
Operation Blue Santa
,
Foundation Communities
,
SAFE
,
Saint Louise House
,
Salvation Army
,
Easter Seals of Central Texas
,
Mobile Loaves & Fishes
,
CASA of Travis County
,
STARRY
, or
Casa Marianella
.
Make
homeless care kits
to hand out to our homeless community members.
Find more ideas at
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