Charity Service Options

Hello FCCLA'ers!

 I hope all of you are having a wonderful holiday season. This time of the year is best for discussing possible community service projects and activities. As FCCLA members, it is important for us to participate, as well as motivate our peers to participate, in bettering our community. From very small and simple actions to huge fundraisers or events, there all types of ways high school students can give back.

Common/Simple Ideas:

-Volunteer at the Special Olympics

-Soup Kitchens

-Local pantry

-Yardwork for senior citizens/nursing homes

-Picking up Trash

-Walking shelter dogs

-Volunteering at a library

-Help teach kids a sport through community

-Volunteer at a nursing home/hospital/child care center

-Host a carnival at a shelter with homeless kids

-Tutor kids with reading/writing/math

-Host a food Drive

-Baby blankets/supplies collection

-Do a giving tree (hang paper ornaments off a tree that say what to get, for example winter coat or diapers and have people take them, you help collect items)

-Toiletries collection

     However, volunteering can be as unique and fun as you make it. Maybe you’d prefer or better enjoy planning a fun event that would raise funds for these charities.

Unique and extremely fun fundraising ideas for any organization/charity:

-A benefit dance/Winter Formal etc.

-Powder Puff Football Game (Teacher Game/ Seniors vs. Juniors etc.)

-Donkey Football Game

-Walkathon

- Volunteers commit to working for an afternoon doing any odd jobs sponsors “hire”
             them to do.

-Reverse Raffles

-Talent Show

-Smoothie Stand

-Little Miss Pretty Pageant (Well-known boys dress up as girls and participate in a girly pageant)

- Have donors pay $1 a vote to decide which form of “torture” to inflict on your organization’s leader (i.e. dye hair, dress as a clown, trade a job for a day).

- Hold a spell-a-thon with each contestant collecting donations for the number of words they spell correctly. The top winners receive donated prizes.

- Participants ask friends and family to donate old jewelry they no longer wear and turn the gold in for cash.

-Coordinate with a store to offer gift wrap services during the holidays.

-Handcuff two willing fundraisers and let them lose when they raise “bail”

- Volunteers commit to shaving their heads if a specified amount is raised by a deadline

     Although we’re discussing charity in a time of giving, as FCCLA members, we must remember to give back to our communities all year around. Get a big group of your friends together once a month and try a new community service activity. Show your peers that giving back can be just as fun as going out and that one person or group of people can make a big difference! Passion for helping others truly is contagious. Remember, an act of kindness, no matter how small, is never forgotten.

          

                                                                                Happy Holidays, 

    

                                                                               Magda Hernandez                                                                                  

                                                                 National Vice-President of Community Service