Generation SERVE Project Ideas

Continue to serve your community on your own with these service project ideas.

Environmentalism

• Plant a tree or native plants in your yard.
• Start a rain collection system at your home.
• Implement a recycling program at your school, office, church, or other community gathering place.
• Plant milkweed or other wildflowers for the butterflies that migrate through your city.
• Begin composting.
• Clean up litter from your neighborhood parks and green spaces.
• Keep bird feeders and a bird bath in your backyard.

Animal Welfare

• Consider fostering a dog or cat while they wait to be adopted.
• Walk a shelter dog with the help of an adult.
• Read to the cats or dogs at a local animal shelter.
• Hand out bags of dog food to our homeless community members with dogs.
• Make the following items to deliver to a local animal shelter - contact the shelter in advance to see what they will and will not accept.
  • homemade dog toys
  • blankets for the kennels
  • warmers for the bottle baby kittens
  • cat or dog toys
• Donate bags of dog food to Generation SERVE to support our animal welfare activities.

Senior Support

• Schedule a time to read with or play games with residents at a local senior facility.
• Deliver a care package to a resident at a senior facility during holidays.
• Contact a senior facility to see if you can send holiday cards or birthday cards to their residents.

Helping People

• Donate your gently used handbags to the Handbags for Hope drive organized by the Texas Advocacy Project.
• Donate your gently used coats to Coats for Kids organized by the Junior League of Austin.
• Organize a food drive in your neighborhood or at your school for Central Texas Food Bank.
• Raise money through a lemonade stand or through your own online fundraiser page for a local nonprofit organization.
• Organize a school supply drive at back-to-school time to donate to one of these organizations - Foundation Communities, Manos De Cristo, For the Children, Communities in Schools, Austin Independent School District, Hindu Charities for America, SAFE, Salvation Army, or your neighborhood school.
• Buy or wrap gifts for a family in need through one of these local organizations - Partnerships for Children, Operation Blue Santa, Foundation Communities, SAFE, Saint Louise House, Salvation Army, Easter Seals of Central Texas, Mobile Loaves & Fishes, CASA of Travis County, STARRY,  or Casa Marianella.
• Make homeless care kits to hand out to our homeless community members.

Find more ideas at Doing Good Together!