Ways to volunteer this holiday (and every) season

Holidays are a time to spend with your loved ones and be thankful for everything you have, but it’s also a perfect time to give back to others by volunteering in your community. Here are some of the ways that you can get involved.

1. Volunteer snuggling with dogs and cats at your local animal shelter
2. Help out at a nursing home by playing games with the residents
3. Make holiday crafts and bring them to hospitals for patients
4. Cook meals for veterans in your neighborhood
5. Offer to shovel a neighbor’s driveway
6. Tutor kids after school
7. Help keep parks and playgrounds clean
8. Volunteer in your community’s next diabetes or cancer walk
9. Donate toys to Toys for Tots
10. Take time to recycle and encourage others to do so as well
11. Serve food at a soup kitchen
12. Keep a change jar going and donate it to a charity of your choice at the end of the month
13. Volunteer at a blood drive
14. Help clean up the beach (if it’s warm enough)
15. Donate old clothes to Goodwill