
Nourishment
1. Hold a home-baked bread or dessert swap with friends and neighbors.
2. Grow your own fruits and vegetables to give away.Â
3. Share seeds, plants, and clippings from your garden. Â
4. Buy food or supplies in bulk and share with friends.
5. Start a dinner co-op.Â
6. Arrange a cooking day among friends where you all get together and prepare food in bulk.Â
7. Start a good times/bad times dinner program in your neighborhood. When something momentous happens to a family (having a baby, losing a loved one, illness, etc.), form a neighborhood team to provide dinners on a rotating basis until the family is back on its feet.
Care
8. Start a babysitting or childcare co-op.Â
9. Start a pet-sitting co-op.
10. Arrange to look after a sick friend with neighbors.
Home HelpÂ
11. Form a home-repair team. Give and get services from painting to putting up a fence or fixing the roof.Â
12. Share infrequently used tools and garden supplies. Start a community toolshed.
13. Collect partially used or unused cans of paint to share and exchange. It saves money and cuts down on toxic waste.
Goods
14. Hold a clothes swap at work, at your house of worship or on your street.
15. Hold toy or sporting goods swaps/exchanges for kids so they can learn new sports and games.
Knowledge
16. Exchange music, art, or cooking lessons.
17. Arrange a used book swap in your apartment building, in your neighborhood, at your workplace, or at your house of worship.
Services
18. Start a skills exchange in your community.Â
19. Start a carpool in your neighborhood or office.
20. Swap your skills for accommodation. Provide accounting, housework, nursing care, childcare, or other skills in return for a room in a house.
21. Alternatively, provide accommodations in your house to get the services you need and help a student or young person get started.
Community
22. Adopt a stream or a highway to restore or improve.
23. Give a traveler a place to stay.
24. Set up an area at a community center, apartment building, or hourse of worship where people can leave items they no longer need for others. Give what’s left to a charity.
25. Volunteer your time and energy in your neighborhood, city, town, or region.
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