SA/TO By Month
Program Ideas: Summer

Programs:

1. Keep a tzedakah box by your bed and put your loose change in at the end of the day.
2. While hiking, picnicking and playing outside, pick up the trash lying around, even if it wasn’t yours.
3. Recycle your empty computer ink cartridges. Most new ink cartridge boxes now have a bag in which to put the old one, so it can be reused later.
4. If you know there is a time in the summer when you will be home, pick an organization that interests you and volunteer for a week
5. Doing “spring cleaning?” Donate old summer clothes in good condition to the Salvation Army or a charity rummage sale.
6. Plant something- for all things in nature that we destroy, the simple action of planting even a single flower is worth it. Bonus points if it’s a tree in Israel!
7. Visit at hospitals and nursing homes to provide company for lonely people.
8. Participate in a local walk or run for a cause. Collect money door to door or from relatives.
9. Walk dogs at a local shelter. Give these often forgotten animals some TLC.
10. The greatest mitzvah is to save a life. Take a 3 hour CPR course so that you’ll be prepared if a situation ever arises.
11. Turn off the AC! Crack a window and relax with some lemonade to cool off while protecting our resources at the same time.
12. For the same amount as a daily ice cream from an ice cream truck, you can sponsor a child in a third world country and provide him or her with vital basics.
13. Drink lots of water, but try to use a Camelback backpack, Nalgene or other refillable bottle. Recycle bottled water bottles.
14. While you’ve got the lawn mower out, mow the lawn of an elderly neighbor while you’re at it.
15. Hold a car wash with some friends for a fun TO fundraiser.
16. Hold a yard sale and donate the proceeds to TO. Cleaning and TO- what could be better?
17. Service attendance tends to lighten in the summer; help make a daily minyan once a week.
18. Save gas money and protect resources; walk or ride a bike when you can.
19. Cut the plastic rings that soda cans come in. Otherwise they can end up around the necks of birds or fish when they’re dumped.
20. Read books to patients at a children’s hospital.