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Schools | Businesses | Neighbors | Families | Faith-based Groups | Service Clubs | Community Groups | General Ideas

On-site school projects…clean-up campus, recycle/reuse art project, “buddy day” (matching older/younger students)

Hand out caring cards for positive actions redeemable for a gift or to be passed to another student

Have students sign a “caring pledge” with the action to be completed by April 28 (might even be part of an assignment) then report on activity (“caring graffiti” wall?, class journal?)

Work with a business/organization for a collaborative project. Attach Dare to Care efforts to an assignment (write about a caring activity or effort)

Storytelling…share stories on acts of caring/acts of kindness – create a “storybook” to be shared with others.

Students create bookmarks reflecting caring actions to share with public libraries, senior centers, books stores

Staff and teachers – model caring actions with each other and be the example for students.

Pledge 10% of one hour (or a whole day) of sales donated to a school or non-profit

Employers offer one extra 15 minute break to employees during the day (maybe doing something special for someone on staff or each other)

Buy a box of donuts/bagels and give them to the business next to yours

Give coupons for goods or services to schools or non-profit organizations

Be a host for a class outing/visit

Teach one new skill to a co-worker (and learn a new skill yourself)

Leave a treat on the desk of a co-worker with whom you normally don’t get along

Show your appreciation to your co-workers through words, notes, or a flower on their desk

Allow employees time off to read to children at a local school

Give out ideas for “acts of caring” to customers

As a group, develop a “caring project” for April 28 (food drive, adopt a school, blanket drive)

For one day, stress caring interactions and activities rather than completing tasks (they don’t have to be mutually exclusive)

Roll an elderly neighbor’s garbage cans back up the driveway at the end of trash pick-up day

Bake cookies together, and take them to a neighbor who needs a lift

Organize a carnival for young children, and invite neighboring families or a group of preschoolers to have fun throwing foam balls, fishing for prizes, and playing games

Clean up litter on a stretch of road in your neighborhood

Leave a bouquet of flowers on a neighbor’s step anonymously

Plant a tree in your neighborhood

Adopt a storm drain

Ideas For Caring Families
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Bake a treat and take it to a police or firefighter station

Create a food basket for a needy family. Make a card with cheerful artwork drawn by each of your family members. Deliver the basket and card to the family

Walk to a nearby park and pick up trash, then have a picnic there

Go to the pool for a swim, and pay the entrance fee for another family

Make some small gifts or write kindness wishes on bright greeting cards. Deliver them in person to residents of a nursing home, children’s home, or senior faculty, to teachers or neighbors

Offer a couple of hours of baby-sitting to parents

Create a craft project or build a bird house with a child

Ideas For Caring Faith-based organizations
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Collect home-baked cookies or other treats to send to a faith group you don’t know

Organize a group of congregation members to prepare a special meal or dessert for nursing home residents

Help seniors who live alone with shopping, doing paperwork, or paying bills

Contact another faith group you don’t know and suggest a joint Dare to Care Day activity

Host a storytelling party at a veterans hospital or other health care facility

Collect personal care items, new underwear, and socks for homeless shelters and safe houses

Work with schools, business, and merchants to raise “Pennies for Dare to Care Day”. Pennies don’t seem to have much value, but when combined, they do make a difference

Prepare a special meal or dessert for seniors or nursing home residents

Visit nursing homes or senior centers with recordings of songs that bring back memories, such as Mitch Miller

Ideas for Caring Community Organizations
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Collect goods for a food bank or shelter

Set up free coffee or hot chocolate for morning commuters

Hold a children’s kindness drawing or coloring campaign

Organize public presentations by community leaders about Dare to Care Day

Ask groups, such as garden club, to create floral arrangements for a senior center, nursing home, police station, hospital, or the homebound

General Ideas for Caring Activities
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Write a kind note to relatives and friends, letting them know why they are special

Communicate by email with a friend

Say something nice to everyone you meet today

Transport someone who can’t drive

Deliver fresh-baked cookies to a friend, colleague, neighbor, community worker, stranger

Bring flowers to work and share them with coworkers

Extend a hand to someone in need. Give your full attention and simply listen

Buy a stranger a pizza

Give blood

Leave an extra big tip for the waitperson

Give a bag of groceries to a homeless person

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