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| Examples of Successful Group Projects |
| Administrative / Clerical | Food, Clothing, and Personal Items Drives | Interactive Volunteer-Client Projects |
| Outdoors / Preservation | Parties / Recreation | Restoration / Repair work |
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Assembling first-aid kits for disaster or "blizzard boxes" for homebound citizens
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Working with families at-risk of becoming non-productive members of the community to help them fill out forms, apply for available assistance
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Pairing retirees to distribute agency literature to doctors' offices in the area
Food, Clothing, and Personal Items Drives
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Collecting canned goods and/or used clothing for clients of an agency
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A "back to school" drive, collecting school supplies for kids
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Sorting bulk food or clothing, such as far a community food bank
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Delivering food baskets to people with disabilities or to the frail elderly
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A children's book drive, tied in with an afternoon where volunteers read books to children
Interactive Volunteer-Client Projects
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A day of shadowing, in which adolescents follow employees around on the job, learning about the workplace
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A softball game between employees and ex-offenders--a chance for the volunteers to overcome stereotypes, and for the ex-offenders to feel valued, treated as people
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Grounds beautification at a children's center
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Park clean up
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Removing litter from and pruning shrubs along a local highway
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Mobilizing 100 kids ages 3-18 from Boys and Girls Club to do anti-graffiti clean-up with local police
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Creating a community garden out of an abandoned lot
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Painting a mural on a blank agency wall, creating a year-round buzz about Day of Caring
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Painting and landscaping a children's playground
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Creating a party for hospitalized children, seniors in nursing homes, or hospitalized veterans
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Taking children from a homeless shelter to a sporting event, supervising a softball game for kids at a facility for the disabled
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Taking adoptable animals from the humane society to a local shopping area, displaying them to shoppers and sharing information about the adoption process
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Creating a picnic for homebound seniors and their "just checking" telephone reassurance volunteers, giving them a chance to meet for the first time
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Organizing a "senior Olympics", with games like wheelchair volleyball
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Volunteers working alongside clients to rehabilitate a domestic violence shelter
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Putting a new roof on the YMCA
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Converting a garage into a women's center
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Painting cottages at a residential facility for youth
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Repairing the roof/repainting the house of an elderly person
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Spring cleaning for a day-care center--washing toys, carpets, walls
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Restoring an historic building
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Installing adaptive equipment to make accessible the home of a person with physical disabilities
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Painting the homes of low-income people
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updated: May 20, 2008
