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- Ask
a single diner to share your table for lunch
- Audition
for community theater or volunteer to usher
- Be
nice when you drive
- Collect
oral histories from older town residents
- Get
to know your children’s teachers
- Invite
government officials to speak at your workplace
- Say
hello to strangers
- Turn
off the TV and talk to friends and family
- Volunteer
at the library.
- Register
to vote
- Organize
a social gathering to welcome a new neighbor
- Avoid
gossip
- Form
a computer group for local senior citizens
- Answer
surveys when asked
- Assist
with or create a neighborhood newsletter
- Say
hi to those in elevators
- Hire
young people for odd jobs
- Say
“thanks” to public servants—police, firefighters,
town clerks
- Sing
in a choir
- Get
to know clerks and salespeople at your local stores
- Support
local merchants
- Start
a community garden
- Mentor
someone of a different ethnic or religious group
- Surprise
a new neighbor by making a favorite dinner--and include
the recipe
- Tape
record your parents earliest recollections and share them
with your children
- Plan
a vacation with friends and family
- Become
an organ donor
- Attend
home parties when invited
- Get
to know your children's teachers
- Attend
your children's athletic contests, plays and recitals
- Start
a monthly tea group
- Speak
at or host a monthly brown bag lunch series at your local
library
- Give
to your local food bank
- Participate
in political campaigns
- Plan
a "walking tour" of a local historic area
- Join
a nonprofit board of directors
- Log
off and go to the park
- Return
a lost wallet or appointment book
- Ask
neighbors for help and reciprocate
- Go
to local folk or crafts festivals
- Excercise
together or take walks with friends or family
- Become
a story-reader or baby-rocker at a local childcare center
-Dr. Robert Putnam |
