Please add any great ideas you would like to share with the CSF/CJSF Community.
If you want to keep track of or maintain accountability for individual student community service hours:
Create a verification of service form and distribute to students before they perform service. Include: student name, event, authorized adult signature, date, number of hours. Etc. You may need to verify adult signatures.
If you have a form you use and wouldn’t mind sharing, please provide a link:
It is never a bad idea to contact your local newspaper or TV new channel to promote and publicize your event.
IDEAS (gathered from other advisers at previous adviser conferences):
- Adopt a bus bench
- Adopt a family in need (e.g. Thanksgiving baskets)
- Adopt a museum display
- Adopt a new student to help ease their transition
- Adopt a grandparent or preschool or bulletin board
- Adopt a highway (every quarter)
- Animal literacy: socialization at the animal shelter (read to dogs)
- Answer letters to Santa
- ASPCA (e.g. collecting blankets for animal shelters, etc.)
- Assist at Open House or Back to School night
- Assist with existing tutoring programs
- Assist during textbook distribution
- Bicycle repairs
- Box tops for elementary schools (count/collect)
- Breast Cancer awareness
- Candy stripers
- Celebrate local police or firefighters and host a dinner for them
- City parade volunteers
- Christmas caroling
- Church pantry volunteers
- Collect coats or blankets for the homeless
- Collect e-waste and donate items for a cause
- Collect new or gently used books for local shelters or a school in need
- Collect shoes or tee-shirts/clothes for those in need (e.g. homeless students)
- Collect something every month
- Contact a chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation for opportunities to help
- Contact Operation Gratitude and coordinate a project
- Contact Ronald McDonald house and organize a collection
- Blankets of Love
- Project Angel Tree
- Partner with Kiwanis, Lions, etc.
- Host Valentine’s dance at convalescent hospital
- Curb address painting for seniors
- Decorate doors at senior centers
- Disaster relief collections
- Errands for the elderly
- Computer lessons for the elderly
- Check online community volunteer opportunities
- Graduation volunteers: decoration, programs, etc.
- Graffiti clean up
- Hand deliver cards to VA workshops
- Halloween Festival volunteers
- Halloween party, festival or carnival
- Happy Hats
- Have a position for a Community Service Officer
- Help at events for special needs children
- Soup Kitchen/ Food Pantry
- Canned food drive
- Freshman orientation
- Christmas Toy Drive