What's A Good, And Simple Charity To Start In Your Community?

free one on one tutoring or small classes for adults:
reading
english language
basic car maintenance
basic personal finance
anything that you know how to do, really

finding places to hold class can be something to figure out

public library can be a good place with rooms (for info/book learning subjects)

free haircuts

That's a really good idea!

Are you looking for a need to fix or a way to raise money to help with a need?

Either

All great ideas. Thanks guys!

Other subjects could be:
Plumbing, carpentry, simple electrics, computer knowledge, how to search for things on the internet effectively.
How to make a CV.

Whatever skills you and your friends have to teach.

Shopping for the elderly. Will also prevent traffic accidents.

and 'driving Miss Daisy' too!

How about helping old folks carry their groceries home?
Or open up a place (even at your own home) to get elderly people together who live isolated lives and they can sit around and knit sweaters for homeless people for during the winter!

Some really great ideas in here!!

We call it "neighbor helping neighbor", many people volunteer time, some probably also donate money. There seem to be groups with that name in various towns. I like that it keeps the charity local, for the people you've chosen to live among. And we all get old so unlike charities that are for people different than you that you would never get, this is something you might need yourself someday.

I can barely keep up.

I am copying them and am going to take them home and show my wife, we will consider which one(s) to tryout

That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm looking for.

This is a fantastic idea! I saw this on the show "Jericho" when TSHTF. The townspeople would bring items that they had and would exchange for things that they needed. This will be exactly how it will go down when things get really really bad.

TRUE 'social security'

This is something everyone can do.

The "postponed coffee".

When you go and buy a coffee at a diner or resto, pay for two coffees but only take one, so when a homeless person comes in he won't have to pay for his. I heard about some places doing this. You can ask about it in your local bistros.

I love this idea, everyone can use a coffee now and then. Even homeless people.

I live in an urban area and do Trap, Neuter, Release of the local stray cats. That way, they don't breed but can help keep down the rats while living their life.

Since you live in a smaller community, perhaps this can be tweaked into helping your low-income neighbors with rides to the nearest city that offers low-cost spaying and neutering. You can even cover the cost of the operation for those who could use the help. That way, they can keep their four-legged friend without worry about marking with urine or their pet escaping to find a mate or dealing with a litter.

You mentioned that their are plenty of Mexicans where you live. Perhaps purchase some educational materials in Spanish teaching the importance of controlling pet overpopulation.

Plant fruit trees and edible plants in public places. Buy land and invite the people to start gardening.

Come to Georgia and start a charity for me!

Yea, a pay it forward type.

I tell you what you don't do, donate to any of the "cancer" charities. My dad died from Hotchkins Lympohoma and leukemia towards the end.

Tried to ask for help and they denied him because he had the wrong type of cancer.. although a church which we belonged to none paid our electric bill for atleast a year and continued to for a few months after he passed

Now that is a true act of kindness no clue what church it was not sure the denomination but being a church I would assume some kind of Christianity but if I could find out who it was I would love to thank them. Maybe think of being an anonymous doner to cancer victims.

Oh and also my dad continued to give money to a leukemia striken child even after the charity refused to help him he said that the child deserved it more.... and this man was an asshole so that pulled on my heart strings

Great unique ideas that havn't been brought up yet.

Thnk you!

I have heard that donating to those big cancer charities doesn't necessarily help. That about 10 cents of every dollar actually goes to research and helping the family.

Although cancer treatment centers don't charge their patients, they operate only on donations.

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Start a Mainly Music. Great for the local pre-schoolers and young mothers, and a lot of fun. I helped start one a number of years back, at that time start up cost was about $300. They give you all sorts of training videos and advice as to how to get one started. I know one group ran with just two volunteers, others use many more volunteers.

It has a very low-key, non-denominational Christian background - and most here in New Zealand are held in local churches, which usually are happy to donate the space for free to hold the meetings. But you could run it nearly any way you want I'm thinking.

I think there are now chapters in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand - maybe more, I don't really know anymore. Check out their websites.