Volunteer

LIVE UNITED in our community by volunteering! Below are suggestions on how you can become involved in giving back by sharing your time with others.

Invite a friend, neighbor or family member to attend a school board meeting with you.
Organize a book drive with your family, co-workers, school, club or faith community.
Read to children in your family, at your library, or with local non-profits engaged in child care or literacy.
Purchase school supplies for a local school to distribute to children who need them.
Enroll your child in a summer reading program at the local library.
Donate your newspaper subscription to a local school to distribute to children who need them.
Allow a high school student to shadow you at work and show them how to apply things you learned in school.
Take the children in your life to a local museum, exhibit or play.
Become a lunch buddy to a school child.

Bring a child in your life to a bank to have a tour and open up a savings account.
Donate new or gently used professional clothing to an organization assisting individuals in seeking employment.
Become a trained volunteer to assist at local free tax preparation sites to help low-income families acquire up to thousands of dollars in earned income tax credits.
Contact your local representative about an issue affecting working people in your community.
Engage with a middle school to teach a class on how to save money and watch with them as it grows.
Help senior citizens learn how to detect and prevent fraud.
Donate magazines and books or volunteer at a local adult literacy program.

Contact your local health clinic to offer assistance with anything from distributing flyers to serving on an event committee to writing a letter to the editor on their behalf.
Check into what healthy snacks are or are not available in your local schools and call on others to promote tasty, healthy meals and fun exercise at school.
Start a walking group for family, friends and neighbors.
Get a flu shot. Take a friend or family member with you when you go.
Buy pedometers for your friends and have a fun competition for who can walk the most steps daily.
Purchase personal care items such as deodorant, toothbrushes and soap, and drop them off at the local homeless shelter.
Help transport families to necessary medical appointments so children can have proper screening and immunizations.