1. Summer Reading to Make a Difference: 5 Ideas.
2. Read The Lorax and Plant a Tree.
3. Gather up your loose change all summer and pick something from a gift catalog to give.
4. Be inspired at amybosma.com. Her son Daniel is raising money to buy a clean water well.
5. Finish up an afternoon of sprinkler with some WaterAid Kids Activities!
6. Prepare ahead of time to complete an Operation Christmas Child Box.
7. Free Printable Activities from Heifer International for kids.
8. Ideas to care for families with disabilities.
9. Explore Citizen Kid Global: a website that help young minds learn about the greater global world.
10. Fill a sports shoe box through Sports Gift.
11. Watch The Good Bird’s Club a special Sesame Street Video about bully prevention.
12. Help the kids in your life become comfortable writing their stories! Check out my Student Speak Pinterest Board.
13. Deliver a surprise to someone in need of a pick-me up. Need ideas? Gifts to Give on Pinterest.
14. For the crafty check out all of Leslie’s at Pink Stripey Socks DIY’s!
15. Head over to Operation World and choose a country to pray for together.
16. Keep clipping those Box Tops for when you return to school in the fall!
17. Become a Free a Family sponsor through World Renew.
18. For all those who can wield needles download a free pattern for Knit for Kids from World Vision.
19. Read digital editions of Quest for Compassion and Explorer for kids from Compassion International.
20. Read Alex and the Amazing Lemonade Stand (digital video) about fighting childhood cancer.
21. Read this beautiful photo journey of Children’s Human Rights through UNICEF. (Great for the whole family)
22. Got Teens? Check out DoSomething.org. Participate in the Peanut Butter and Jam Slam this summer!
23. Walk, Run or Bike with your whole family with the free Charity Miles app! Exercise for a cause of your choice!
24. Support a family’s micro loan through Kiva!
25. Give through Feeding America’s On-line Gift Catalog.
26. Sign up for Milkshake, a daily email with ideas to give back.
27. Take the GROW METHOD challenge with your family this summer from OxFam.
28. Try a new recipe with the kids from the GROW METHOD cookbook.
29. Take the Can You Imagine Quiz through Ryan’s Well about what it might be like without clean water.
30. Try out a Half the Sky Movement mobile game app.
31. Do you use Diaper.com? You can refer a friend and support Shot@Life, providing vaccines to children.
32. Consider bringing TerraCyle to your school. Recycle and earn education money for your school.
33. Host a School Tools Event hands-on service through World Vision for education.
34. Host a Journey to Jamaa Movie Party through World Vision. Connecting Children who Care with People in Need.
35. Send a Wounded Warrior a thank you note through facebook.
36. Use free Girl Rising Curriculum to educate your girl about courageous needs of global friends.
37. Recycle those old running shoes with Reuse-a-Shoe by Nike.
38. Donate your old eyeglasses and sunglasses through Lions Club International.
39. Doing some home improvement donate your home supplies or purchase at Habitat for Humanity Restore.
40. Old Cell Phones? Try these options.
41. Play some Recycle City at the Environmental Protection Agency.
42. Watch these fun digital shorts at the Story of Stuff, great to teach kids about waste and recycling!
43. Download a free curriculum for faith-based teens about a Spirit-filled Response to a Consumed Crazed World.
44. Explore how your family can incorporate fair trade purchases into your household.
45. Submit your story to CausePub and support Blood Water Mission.
46. Download a toolkit from UNICEF with 20 Ways to Fight Human Trafficking.
47. Download Live58: free ebook about how to live generously in 2013.
48. Watch these videos about clean water from WaterAid family appropriate.
49. The Adventures of Super Toilet from WaterAid. What kid wouldn’t read that on-line comic book?
50. Download this flyer for expectant Mom’s to make sure they get a PulseOx Screening for new babies.
51. Make sidewalk chalk messages that encourage!
52. Deliver an ice cream treat to a shut-in or someone that has been feeling under the weather.
53. Surprise someone with a full car wash. Kids love to help with this, any excuse to get wet!
54. Remember your local food pantry. Many kids get the majority of their meals from school and when school’s out they experience food insecurity.
55. Use Goodsearch a penny is donated to your cause or school with each search.
56. Goodsurvery’s donates a dollar to your cause for each survey you take.
57. Are you a computer or facebook gamer? Try Goodgaming for every three times you play a penny is donated to your cause.
58. Try one of these 134 acts of kindness from Anna at And Then We Saved.
59. Save your pop tabs for Ronald McDonald House Charities.
60. Check out this great list of items to donate such as toys and games to your closest Ronald McDonald House.
61. Three places to send a get well soon card to a child that is receiving long-term hospital care.
62. A summer hair cut? Try Locks of Love.
63. 100 tips to conserve water this summer!
64. Try some of the challenges in the book Clean House about youth entitlement.
65. Walk or use your bikes in the nice weather whenever possible. Bench that car! Shut off car pool!
66. Directions on how to make an infant care kit through the Mennonite Central Committee to be used in refugee camps.
67. Adopt a Classroom: Fund a project for a specific classroom.
68. Patterns to make blankets for children and babies through Project Linus.
69. Host or attend a block party for your neighborhood.
70. Do you know a young person serving at a summer camp? Send a care package.
71. Send pictures and letters to friends and family that live far away.
72. Do you know someone going through a difficult time? Step them up through Take Them a Meal.
73. Watch the video the Power of Ten. Plant trees and employ others through the Eden Foundation.
74. Giving through your coupon skills by moneysavingmom.com
75. Speak up for what you believe in. Our combined voices are powerful.
76. Shut off social media for extended times during the day to be present with your kids.
78. Awesome ideas from the ever gracious Amy Sullivan.
79. Shop with purpose visit pinterest boards from about proximity and Amy Sullivan.
78. Kaboom Playground active body activities.
79. Kaboom Playground active together projects.
80. Kaboom Playground active mind projects.
81. Follow the non-profits you support on twitter, facebook and pinterest.
82. Donated your gently used coats through One Warm Coat.
83. Ideas for earning service learning credits through The Humane Society.
84. Support survivor care of victims of human trafficking through Love 146.
85. Become a church ambassador for Exodus Road.
86. Use social media for good. Learn more at Social Good Moms.
87. Teach your kids about hospitality by having friends over.
88. Support your local library by participating in their summer reading program.
89. Free lessons for kids about gardening and the environment.
90. Do you have a history lover? The National Park Service has an enormous list of ideas for service learning projects.
91. 55 Service Learning ideas from Youth Service America with links.
92. Check out Learning to Give a curriculum division of Generation On compatible with Common Core Standards.
93. Family Service Ideas from Generation On!
94. 65 ways to get started through Generation On!
95. Resource Database of Service Learning and Community Involvement from the New York Times.
96. Check out Faces Magazine from your library ages 9-14.
97. Teaching Tolerance Magazine is free to educators and youth directors.
98. Book list for Anti-Bullying and Conflict Resolution.
99. Spend time together.
100. Take time to do nothing at all 🙂
I’ d love to hear what you tried off this list. Guest post? I love your voice.
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