IDEAS FOR DIRECT SERVICE
With people
Coaching children in sports
Delivering meals to people living with a medical condition
Leading resume-writing workshops for people who are unemployed
Organizing or assisting at a blood drive
Playing music with elders to have an exchange of skills and learn about each other’s music preferences and talents, and then performing as an ensemble for others
Distributing plants at a farmer’s market to promote home-grown container gardens
Serving food at a soup kitchen
With the environment
Restoring a stream
Preparing the soil and beds for an elementary school garden and planting with the children
Growing seedlings for distribution
Installing raised-bed gardens for a senior centre
Establishing a recycling programme at city hall
Making a storm-water garden
Picking up trash
With animals
Helping at an animal shelter with data entry and dog-walking
Assisting with a pet adoption outreach programme at community events
Leading a workshop on pet care
Setting up a turtle sanctuary in partnership with a community organization
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IDEAS FOR INDIRECT SERVICE
With people
Assembling a photo exhibit about poverty for a gallery
Preparing meals in a soup kitchen
Taking part in a walkathon to raise money for humanitarian causes
Preparing activity kits for children for an emergency shelter
Writing brochures for organizations
Assisting with the creation of a museum exhibit
Making exercise videos to give to homeless shelters
Creating a newsletter for a retirement community
Recording audio books for people who are visually impaired
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With the environment
Preparing signage for a local wetland
Growing seedlings for distribution
Initiating a school compost to reduce food waste in landfills
Creating a website with information about flora and fauna for a local park
With animals
Making zoo toys for animals
Collecting needed supplies for a wildlife rescue centre
Baking dog biscuits for an animal shelter
Making colouring books on local endangered animals for elementary schools and for tourists with protection tips
IDEAS FOR ADVOCACY SERVICE
With people
Leading a town hall meeting on solar energy
Organizing a letter-writing campaign for a cause
Hosting a speaker and film series to raise awareness for the community
Creating comic strips or comic books to teach about emergency safety and readiness
Planning a conference to raise awareness about education equity
With the environment
Providing reusable water bottles to replace single-use water bottles
Creating public service announcements on energy reduction in homes
Organizing a flash mob to teach about recycling
Promoting a “just use less” campaign to reduce quantities of what is put in trash and recycling bins
With animals
Making beach signs to protect local waterways from rubbish
Dressing as animals at risk for a public event
Creating posters, videos and public service announcements to promote animal adoption for a shelter
IDEAS FOR RESEARCH SERVICE
With people
Assisting with a city-wide needs assessment by running focus groups
Conducting hands-on research about how interaction improves quality of life for residents at an elderly care facility
Preparing a public service outreach process to identify local veterans willing to be interviewed, and then conducting the interviews for an historical society
Learning about the history of people buried in a cemetery from the 1800s to support a local museum
Observing play habits of children in an orphanage or refugee centre to identify what skills are developed or need support
With the environment
Using photography to collect images that inform about the first flush from a storm drain by your school
Interviewing administrators at local landfills to learn about community habits that support collections of trash to recycle and food waste for composting
Analysing items collected in a community or beach clean-up to develop a campaign (advocacy service) that prevents the items from being littered again
With animals
Conducting a behaviour study of zoo animals or shelter animals
Monitoring numbers of stray animals, combining findings with interviews and surveys to determine opinions of advocates, opponents and the general public, and offering recommendations to improve local policies
Assisting with tracking and monitoring of butterfly migratory paths
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