Service projects are a great way to become active in your community and uplift others. Service comes in a variety of forms and can include even the simplest of tasks.
Below are some ideas to help get your squad started.
Rake and Run
Have members of your squad serve as peer mentors or tutors
Organize a pep rally
Participate in Teacher Appreciation Week by writing letters to each teacher in school
Candy grams: during Valentines
Serve as ambassadors, handing our information at assemblies, orientations, and open houses
Random acts of kindness
Kudos box
Parent’s night – free babysitting
Volunteer at the homeless shelter
Get to know someone new day
Hope Squad breakfast
Chuck your change: collect change for charity
Food drive, shoe drive, blanket drive, toy drive at Christmas
Hope moments
Highway clean up day
Serve your teacher
Cleaning up a park
Firewood for families who need it
Visit/send something to rehab centers/old folks homes
Take food to homeless
Repair homes of people in community
Start a resource center for kids who need supplies
Carol at a hospital or an assisted living facility
Decorate an area at Christmas
Army notes
Hospital notes
Thank helping professionals
Yard work for those in need
Snow shoveling
Plant trees/gardens
Clean cemetery
Pay It Forward cards – say hello and pass the card
Compliments on sticky notes – leave them everywhere
Clothes/food drive
New student goodie bags
Hand out roses on Valentines Day
Life is Worth Living 10 mile walk-a-thon
Handwritten notes asking students about themselves/personalized
Send postcards when student is doing well
Hand out SAFE UT cards
Pick up trash
Heart attack teacher’s doors
Gather supplies for Ronald McDonald House
Help with school dances
Help arrange carpools
Sock Drive
Outside service with homeless
Positive compliment dispenser
Dances hosted by HOPE Squad
Hand out balloons for free
Clean schools
Mental Health/Resilience Night
Make hygiene kits to donate
Blanket drive for homeless/NICU
Neighborhood car wash
Volunteer at a Farmer’s Market
Throw a party for special needs children
Canned Food Drive
Share food baskets at local markets
Harmons – ask for wilted flowers – take to anyone in need