Here is a preview of some ideas that you can begin implementing deeper relationships in your community for there is no doubt that small things done with great love can impact others.
INDIVIDUAL:
1. Deliver fresh-baked cookies to a neighbor or co-worker.
2. Bring flowers (poinsettias, etc.) to someone.
3. Offer to baby-sit for free.
4. Pay for someone's Starbucks coffee behind you in the drive-through.
5. Pay for someone's fast food meal behind you in the drive-through.
6. Send a note of encouragement to someone.
7. Give another driver your parking spot.
8. Give a treat to the postman or delivery person.
9. Leave a big tip for a waiter or waitress.
10. Pay for someone's movie that is behind you in line.
11. Slip a $20 bill to someone who you know is struggling financially.
12. Pay for someone's meal or dessert at a restaurant.
13. Bake goodies and take them to the police station, fire station, or hospital.
14. Take a box of doughnuts to a school, office, etc.
15. Cook a meal for a neighbor or co-worker.
16. Organize a Christmas Caroling group and go house-to-house.
17. Approach shoppers as they finish unloading their carts and offer to take the shopping cart back for them.
18. Take your child’s teacher and/or bus driver a lunch or coffee gift card.
19. Pay for the person’s food behind you in a drive-thru.
20. Pay for someone’s gas.
21. Send an encouraging note to someone who is going through a tough time or someone you haven’t connected with in a while.
22. When you’re mowing your grass, mow your neighbor’s grass too
23. Leave a note of thanks with a $5 gift card for your mail carrier, trash collector, etc.
24. Adopt an under privileged child in your child’s classroom and provide school supplies, snack and/or lunch money for that child.
25. Pay a utility bill for someone who is going through a difficult time.
26. Leave a generous tip for your waiter or waitress when you dine out.
27. Buy someone’s groceries at the supermarket.
28. Park further away in order to give someone else a closer space.
29. Take your neighbor a meal.
30. Offer to clean the house for an expectant mom or a senior citizen.
GROUP:
1. Provide free services for those in need through your business.
2. Contact local schools and spend Saturdays cleaning, painting and fixing up school buildings that are in need.
3. Go to the hospital and drop off gift baskets to the sick or those working.
4. Collect clothes and donate them to a local organization.
5. Collect and provide school supplies for teachers.
6. Send out teams to neighborhoods and help with anything people need done in their house or yard.
7. Cook a meal for local police officers and/or firefighters.
8. Bring in snacks for teachers and/or principals.
9. Hand out free bottles of water at community sports events (soccer games, football games, etc.).
10. Make cards and small care boxes for people in assisted living facilities.
11. Collect and donate baby items for iChoose Pregnancy Support Services.
12. Throw a surprise party for someone.
13. Ask a local non-profit how to help maintain or improve their facilities.
