Even while at or our Social-Distancing, there are many service projects you can still do to support your local community, the nation and our world. Here are a few ideas to get you started.
- Support your local Food Bank
- Contact them and ask how your unit can help
- Drive Through Food Drive?
- Drive Through Food Donation Drive?
- Make eFliers and get out the word?
- Make PPE – Personal Protective Equipment
- Everyone needs these, some more than others
- Sew Masks
- Make Face Shields
- Connect with our Seniors and Veterans
- Contact Senior, Veteran, and Nursing Homes
- Contact Memory Care, or Hospice facilities
- Send a ‘thinking of you’ video or email
- Make and send cards
- Give them a call or set up a virtual chat
- Host Zoom Bingo or run other games
- Draw and/or color pictures to share with these facilities
- Read them stories or talk about scouting with them
- Hold senior interviews
- Write senior’s biographies
- Hold a show-and-tell activity
- Support your Front-Line Health Care Providers
- Send a thank-you message to a local hospital
- Create videos of Scouts thanking essential workers
- Don’t forget grocery store/hardware/retail workers/utility workers
- Help your neighbors
- Read a story via Zoom to a neighbor’s child
- Become a neighbor’s child’s tutor – you have skills, share them
- Help with grocery pick-up/delivery (leave shopping bags on doorstep)
- Call your loved ones
- They miss you and miss talking to their friends
- Tell them what you’re doing in scouting
- Motivate people 18 years and older to donate blood
- Set up a Blood Drive program
- Make fliers
- Give a presentation
- Post information on you unit’s web page
- Support service members overseas
- Send them letters (send to USO)
- Put together a care package from you unit
- Participate in Cards for Hospitalized Kids – deliver later when safe to do so
- Start seeds in your own yard or garden to be transplanted into a community garden at a later date.
- Organize a virtual 5k or other fundraiser to raise funds for a local agency, charity, or cause
- Help your Charter Organization with what they might need
- Contact your Church and see how you can help
