Help disaster victims by:
organizing food drives, collecting clothes,helping them rebuild their community.

Conduct "Religious Emblems Training" at a training event or roundtable.

Work in a food pantry helping to prepare food for the homeless or poor.

Organize a "sweep up" work dayto get the community out cleaninga neglected part of town.

Put on an information fair for latch key kids.

Sponsor a basic first-aid training daywith your community fire department.

Sing Christmas carols for peoplein retirement homes, in your community.

Service projects for senior or disabled residents: cleaning, painting, yard work, etc.

Christmas tree Pick-up Program.

Plan and execute Eagle projects which will benefit the community.

Plan a picnic for senior citizens.

Schedule a presentation by Operation Lifesaverto increase railroad safety awareness.

Collect perfume and makeup for a battered women’s shelters.

Volunteer as staff for community events: parades, picnics, festivals.

Work with your City Council on selected projects.

Spend your summer break restoring trails in an area park.

Work with local conservation groups in erosion control.

Encourage your family to participate in a Student Exchange program.

Adopt a grandparent in a retirement home.

Make a resource list of community services and distribute it to your neighborhood.

Build bird houses or rabbit shelters.

Collect old art supplies and donate them to your church youth group.

Encourage your town leadership to establish a community swan pond at a park; take care of the pond and encourage the growth of wildlife in and around it.

Work at vacation Bible school.

Organize a finance fair in your community to talk about personal financial management.

Raise awareness of the Youth Protection program.

Provide help in setting up community health screenings for: Glaucoma, Diabetes, blood pressure.

Publish a calendar on the Internet of upcoming community events, and keep it updated.

Adopt a few elected officials, learn about their jobs,and volunteer to help them with special projects.

Feed and cleanup at your local Humane Society.

Create a reading club in your Troop.

Learn basic sign language and teach it to kids in your Cub pack.

Volunteer as an Usher for services in your church.

Record a welcome and "tour of the town" video for new area residents and give copies to your local library and church libraries.

Provide refreshments to runners at a charity race.

Help a physically or mentally challenged athleteto prepare for the Special Olympics.

Volunteer time (as a patrol or troop)working in a Public Library.

Do genealogical research for your family.

Read books into a recorder and share the tapes with blind or hard of sight people.

Go bowling with kids with special physical or mental challenges.

Get involved with Rails to Trails.

Awareness campaign for car seats for kids, organize a recycling event for car seats.

Community fire safety awareness.

Hold a neighborhood bike-a-thon or a bike rodeo.

Volunteer to sweep snow from driveways and scrape ice from cars of elderly neighbors.

Provide an Honor Guard for flag ceremonies in your community.

Be a Page in the State Assembly.

Plant flowers at your town hall.

Help direct parking for community events.

Distribute "Have You Seen Me" posters for missing kids.

Encourage participation in a ride share program.

Build flower boxes in your neighborhood park.

Form a youth court at your school or church to help resolve problems between kids.

Work to save endangered species by helping an environmental group with spotting, posting signs, or raising public awareness.

Become a pen-pal with religious Missionaries.

Create a mentoring program for your Scouts to help younger kids in the community.

Have your Scouts tutor other children who need help with reading or other skills.

Sponsor a Family Walking Night.

Find used and broken bikes, repair them and donate them to kids who can’t afford them.

Put together a first-aid kit for a homeless shelter.

Create a website of local historical sites.

Help fix up run down buildings and homes in your neighborhood.

Volunteer your group to help wrap the coins donated to charity from a wishing well fountain.

Start a family vegetable garden.

Gather clothing that you have outgrown and give it to children’s shelters in your area.

Become a Super Sitter, then offer training on how to be one. Promote your community Super Sitters to neighborhood parents.

Get out the Vote! campaign.

Clean up a local park, playground, or school.

Get involved with peer counseling.

Invite the community to participate.

Create a community Liberty Garden for our armed forces.

Volunteer to do work around the church (Painting, cleaning, maintenance, etc.).

Help decorate the dining hall for holiday dinners put on by other groups for the needy.

Organize a "used sports equipment bank" to share old gear with families who can’t afford new things.

Work in Toys for Tots distribution

Scouts can learn (and teach) about Ham radio for emergency community preparedness.

Hold a fitness contest at a community festival.

Create and sign a "drug free pledge" and ask your friends to sign it, too.

Volunteer for the American Red Cross.

Volunteer to be a Salvation Army bell ringer.

Repair and renovate a local cemetery or help preserve a local historical site.

Ask people to cut six pack plastic rings before disposing of them.

Get involved with Special Olympics.

Offer to retire American flags for your city, schools, or business in your community.

Help out with National River Clean up Week.

Setup community compost bins to create fertile soilc for people’s gardens and planting projects.

Community police ride-a-long.

Hold a book drive and donate collected books to homeless shelters.

Plant Trees on Arbor day.

Work with your Chartered Partneron one of their special projects.

Don’t forget about Scouting for Food!

Paint house numbers on curbs.

Lobby for historical status for some local buildingthat’s important to your local history.

Build fish habitats in neighborhood ponds, streams, rivers and lakes(you can use collected Christmas trees from a tree drive).

Form a chapter of middle school S.A.D.D.

Assist in Community Cleanup days: help paintover graffiti at schools and other public places.

Adopt a fire hydrant:repaint it, clean up brush around it,shovel and mow.

Work with a local auto oil/lube shop to dispose of used oil, tires, and batteries in your community.

When heavy winter or severe weather is on the way, think about the older people in your neighborhood and volunteer to help themshop for food to be prepared for the storm.

Collect baby clothes for local women’s shelters.

Create a local historical trail.

Collect: shoes, coats, clothing for needy.

As a troop, present a "Get Acquainted With the Internet" training evening to your community.

Be prepared and willing to assist in case of national or local emergency.

Sponsor a toy repair clinic and donate fixed toys to church day care centers.

Put together a booklet on your town’s best features, history and things to do around town.

Raise Donor Awareness: organs, bone marrow, blood.

Organize or volunteer in a community health fair.

Help clean up a section of your streets or highways by adopting a highway.

Start a craft program at a community senior citizen center; help build craft projects there.

Adopt a monument in your area.

Keep it clean and decorate it with flowers.

Learn about the water pollution levels in your area lakes and streams.

Fingerprint the kids in your neighborhood.

Encourage your Scouts to let leaders, teachers, and authorities know if they see illegal drugs being sold.

Collect aluminum cans and donate the money.

Earn money and use it to adopt a child in a needy country. Become a pen pal with the adopted child.

Help disabled and handicapped:change batteries in smoke detectors, change burned-out light bulbs, and do minor home improvements.

Collect used Bibles and work with a group of local churches to help distribute them to the needy.

Organize a neighborhood walk-a-thon.

Create a Good Turn Dayeach month in your unit.

Put on a youth protection "It’s OK to Tell" demonstration with local Cub Pack.

Volunteer to send post cards to veterans, and promote being a pen pal with a veteran.

Take a bite out of crime– McGruff.

Walk the dogs at your local animal shelter.

Build floating nests for waterfowl.

Contribute to third-world orphanages.

Volunteer your time at a local hospital.

Do volunteer work in a crisis center (suicide, drug, teen, etc.).

Commit to visiting your grandparents once a week.

Learn about how your Scout unit can volunteer to be a part of the Year 2000 Census.

Join D.A.R.E. and help put on a demonstration at your school.

Visit nursing homes, hospitals, children’s homes and other residential facilities with your pet.

Create awareness for Toxins in Society.

Form or volunteer to help in a Neighborhood Watch program.

Have a living Christmas tree this year, and replant it outside after the holidays.

Volunteer to do readings at the local library, church, homeless shelter, or hospital.