Examples of Opportunities to Serve Community-based Organizations or Public Agencies

Issue Area	Sample Ideas
Advocate for An Issue	• Research, write, and publish articles • Produce a newspaper • Start a campus chapter of an organization • Speak to civic groups • Organize a speakers forum, a public hearing, a conference
Health	• Present health information to peers and community • Provide basic health care (with training) • Coach youth sports • Organize health fair, health screenings, blood drive • Comfort hospital patients • Develop curriculum and lead health education workshops
Environment	• Monitor habitats and/or analyze water/air/habitat quality • Conduct energy/resource audits, Assist researchers • Design native habitat restoration • Landscape using native plants • Set up recycling and composting • Organize a trash clean-up
Public Safety	• Staff Hotlines • Organize safe driving/bicycling/walking to school campaigns, a peer mediation training • Organize training for emergency preparedness • Organize home safety audits, a anti-violence campaigns
Education	• Tutor and/or train tutors • Lead after school clubs for middle/high school students • Serve as teacher’s aides • Organize forums • Develop curriculum • Make displays
Economic	• Cook/work at soup kitchens • Conduct research for economic planning • Staff shelters, work at training centers • Hold a tax training workshop, collect planning data
Immigrants	• Organize opportunities to share culture • Teach citizenship classes, ESL classes • Teach language classes to elementary students • Hold an educational forum for the public
Political Participation	• Lead voter education and registration activities • Teach classes, write/read letters • Organize a public issues forum, volunteer to lead outings to public agencies, museums, etc.

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