100 SIMPLE SERVICE IDEAS from LCI web site
Youth
Children
• Organize a community event to promote activities like safe
cycling
• Collect and donate clothes for a home for boys or girls
• Paint a playground involving local youth
• Host a wellness and nutrition day advocating healthy living
habits for the young people in your community
• Donate books to a school library
• Host a dance or youth social at a community center
• Organize a clothing drive to provide young people with
formal gowns and suits for school dances
• Host an alcohol/drug awareness seminar in the community
• Host a game night for local youth to promote healthy social
events that don’t involve drugs or alcohol
• Donate computers to a school or library
• Tutor at an after school program
• Volunteer with youth at a senior center or local food pantry
• Organize a job fair to help young people identify their career
goals
• Plant a garden at a school
• Host a speech contest in your community
• Organize a college visit day
• Provide a diversity awareness training to educate youth on
global culture
• Implement a reading program at a school or library
• Organize a health fair or seminar at a local school
• Schedule a visit to a local fire or police station
• Organize a ceremony to recognize outstanding youth in your
community
• Mentor a youth
• Host a seminar on social media safety
• Clean-up a local park or school and include youth
• Volunteer with local youth at a special needs camp
• Make hygiene kits for children at an orphanage
• Work with healthcare professionals to provide free
immunizations
• Make baby supply kits for newborns in need
• Read to a child
• Collect/donate coats for needy children
• Donate toys to a local children’s hospital
• Host an arts and crafts day at a local center or church
• Organize a beep baseball tournament
• Have a play day at an orphanage
• Assemble school supplies
• Host a music day at a local center or church
• Repair furniture at a school
• Provide snacks for children in childcare facilities
• Volunteer at a camp serving children with special
needs
• Have children make cards and write letters for military
personnel
• Provide ID bracelets to children
• Donate backpacks to school children
• Host a fishing derby for blind/visually impaired
children
• Donate shoes to an orphanage
• Work with children ages 3-5 to prepare for
kindergarten
• Build a wheelchair access ramp for disabled children
• Donate a Braille machine to a school or library for the
visually impaired
• Donate books to a school
• Repaint/repair a playground
• Host a community sports day for children
Health/Nutrition
• Volunteer at a clinic or hospital
• Make/donate hygiene kits to homeless shelters
• Invite healthcare professionals to a communitywide event to
demonstrate proper hand washing
• Donate blood at a medical clinic/hospital
• Plant a vegetable garden where local residents can grow their
own food
• Prepare and deliver food baskets to families in need
• Collect/provide clean water to elderly members in community
• Create a cookbook of easy to make, nutritious recipes and
distribute in the community
• Volunteer at a food bank/soup kitchen
• Collect food to replenish a local food pantry
• Prepare sandwiches for homeless/street children
• Arrange transportation services to a doctor appointment or
grocery shopping for persons who are blind/visually impaired
• Collect items to include in care packages and send to
military personnel
• Host a seminar on nutrition in your community
• Host a fitness day
• Donate nutritious snacks to an after school program
• Host CPR training at a local community center
• Work with local health professionals to provide free
vision, hearing and diabetes screenings
• Host a picnic or BBQ at a park for local community
• Work with local medical personnel to administer free
HIV tests
• Cook or deliver meals to needy residents
• Help provide immunizations
• Assist medical professionals
• Provide dental/medical check-ups
• Host a community walk