Project Ideas for your Community
Below is a list of community project ideas that you may choose to implement or perhaps may inspire a new idea. Try any of them that fit your ability, time, resources, and specific community needs. Let us know if you have one to share!
Help with Food
- Bring a basket of food to shut-ins or needy families
- Make healthy bagged meals to distribute to the homeless
- On car trips, pack a bag of canned goods to distribute as needed
- Distribute water in places where sources are contaminated
- Bring non-perishable foods and supplies to disaster victims
- Bake healthy snacks to deliver to shelters
- Help nursing home patients at meal time
- Volunteer at a food pantry or soup kitchen
- Start a mobile soup kitchen
Help with Necessities
- Provide coats, socks, scarves, gloves, shoes, or other clothing items for warmth and weather-protection to any as needed
- Distribute blankets to the homeless, in need, or hospitalized…you can purchase at thrift stores or easily make to be more personal
- Collect personal care items for shelters, those in need, or military
Help for the Elderly or Shut-in
- Clear driveways/walkways to allow for safer access
- Prepare a meal
- Provide grocery delivery service
- Spend time listening, talking, or reading to shut-ins
- Offer cleaning services (kitchen, yard, car, etc.)
- Help return garbage cans or collect recycling
- Adopt an elderly neighbor as a grandparent (pray for, call, visit, or write as if part of your own family)
General Community Outreach
- Pray with individuals as encountered throughout community
- Pass out Bibles or other supportive literature
- Start a community garden
- Adopt a road for cleaning and praying over
- Collect items needed by local charities, churches, and shelters
- Offer free windshield cleanings or car washes
- Clear driveways or sidewalks of snow, leaves, litter, or debris
- Conduct a study, class, or healthy living discussion at the local library
- Provide tutoring services or help someone learn to read
- Offer to walk patrons to their car under an umbrella on a rainy day
- Volunteer with yearly school maintenance or painting over graffiti