More ways to be Kind to the Community

Appreciate a community worker.
Give a thank-you card to: a bus driver who is driving off-peak hours, personally thank the janitor who keeps your campus clean, tell a police officer that you appreciate his work for the community, send flowers to a local teacher who has dedicated her life to children.
Deliver fresh-baked cookies to city workers.
Collect goods for a food bank.
Offer a couple of hours of baby-sitting to parents.
Volunteer at an agency that needs help.
Donate time at a senior center.
Give blood.
Stop by a nursing home, and visit a resident with no family nearby.
Leave a treat or handmade note of thanks for a delivery person or mail carrier.
Clean graffiti from neighborhood walls and buildings.
Have a clean-up party in the park.
Give toys to the children at the shelter or safe house.
Write something nice about your waitperson on the back of the bill.
Send a gift anonymously to a friend.
Organize a clothing drive for a shelter.
Buy books for a day care or school.
Slip a $20 bill to a person who you know is having financial difficulty.
Collaborate with friends to bake cakes and pies, and arrange with a soup kitchen to deliver the desserts for Thanksgiving dinner.
Roll an elderly neighbor.s garbage cans back up the driveway at the end of trash pick-up day.
Purchase a copy of a book about kindness, put a smile card in the middle, and pass it on.
Pay the toll for the person behind you.
Shovel your neighbor.s driveway or mow their lawn.
Stop to help someone on the side of the road with car trouble.
If a friend or a neighbor is moving, offer to bring food.
After loading your groceries into the car, return your shopping cart.
Donate blood.
Collect personal care items, new underwear, and socks for homeless shelters and safe houses.