How can i give back with out donating money or volunteering?

Question

i want to give back maybe by making something like a quilt or anything i dont have time to volunteer no much money but is there other ways. websites would be helpful

Answer 1

There are many ways to give back.

Smiling to the sick, talking to the addicts when you walk on the streets or take the subway, helping an old lady to carry her back on your way to the market, giving a sandwich to a homeless person, showing compassion for the mentally ill....................

................and the list will go forever.

Answer 2

Every day you can go to http://www.thehungersite.com and click the button. The sponsors on the page then donate cups of food for hungry people world-wide. In a 12-month period they donated over 43 million cups and it only takes a second for each person to do and costs nothing!

Then on that site you can go to related sites (breast cancer, child health, literacy, rainforest, and animal rescue) where you can click and sponsors donate acres of rainforest, mammograms, etc. By shopping at the sponsors' sites, even more will be donated to the causes.

At http://www.freerice.com you can play a game of identifying meanings of words. For each correct response, the sponsors of the ads contributes 20 grains of rice.  (It's a fun and addicting site!)

Another way to give to charity without spending any money or volunteering is to use certain search engines. Whenever you do a search, the advertisers pay to a charity - usually you choose which one before searching.

Here's a site that lists a few of these search engines:

http://www.easydonations.net/searchengin...

And one that lists 15 of these search engines:

http://www.doshdosh.com/13-charity-searc...

A fantastic site that gives lots of ideas is http://www.justgive.org/html/ways/   One of the links, 'charity malls', has links to several charity malls and many let you choose your cause, or add a cause, and gives hundreds of stores you can buy from that will donate to this cause.

There are tons of more ways to make a difference, from small to big, but even small ones can create a ripple effect. Here are some ideas:

- smile and say hello to people you don't know

- really listen when people talk and show you care

- offer to help a neighbour such as shovelling snow, cutting lawns, babysitting their children, bringing over something you've made like soup or muffins, sharing your garden

- pick up litter wherever you see it

- reduce your consumption

- recycle what you can

- eat vegetarian and organic

- get a hybrid for your next vehicle

- use compact fluorescent light bulbs

- use reusable bags (especially for those regular grocery trips!)

- buy fair trade goods

- buy clothes that were not made from child labourers and preferably from environmentally friendly material (e.g. organic cotton, hemp, bamboo, and soy)

- pick a cause you're passionate about and do something for it, be it fundraise, donate, write petitions, or hands-on help

For more ideas go to:

http://www.dosomething.org

http://heartsandminds.org/

http://www.care2.com

http://www.sixdegrees.org/

http://www.betterworld.net/

For more ideas on random acts of kindness go to:

http://www.helpothers.org/

http://www.actsofkindness.org/

http://www.extremekindness.com/

http://schools.hpedsb.on.ca/smood/kindne...

http://www.thegooddeedsorganisation.com/

Write your government representatives about changes you would like to see.  For example, to make poverty history go to http://www.one.org if you're in the USA, http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca  if you're in Canada, http://www.makepovertyhistory.org  if you're in the UK.

To help end human rights abuses, check out Amnesty International's appeals for action at http://www.amnesty.org/ and the campaigns Human Rights Watch have initiated that you can take action on at http://www.hrw.org/

No shortage of actions every one can take, every day, in some way :-)

Answer 3

Give food and toys to the drives they always have each year before the Holidays.   Also you could contact your favorite charity and see if they have a wish list.

Answer 4

I know people who knit hats for newborns for use at hospitals , maybe contact a local hospital to see if they have any programs like this. Even simple things like donating unwanted clothing/items to Goodwill is helpful. Good luck!

Answer 5

There's no need to repay good fortune or favors that you have received.  The last thing I would want someone that I have helped out would be for them to over-repay me back, putting themselves in the same situation that I helped them out of to begin with.  Gratitude seems to have been lost these days as well as generosity ; ;

Answer 6

Making a quilt is, indeed, volunteering, and it takes time.

Here is a site that links to many, many different quilts-for-peace projects

http://www.global-art.org/galleries/2004...

There's also Afghans for Afghans

http://www.afghansforafghans.org/

There"s also

http://www.knittingforcharity.org/

You can also simply make these things on your own and donate them to senior organizations, homeless shelters, etc.

Project Gutenberg is always looking for online volunteers to proofread texts which are made freely available to the world.

http://www.gutenberg.org/

You can also look into ways to live with less of a carbon footprint - recycling and reusing more, using cloth bags at the grocery and for any shopping, making a commitment to walking, biking and using mass transit, unplugging all of your appliances every night before you go to bed (you will save money too!), etc.

Also, see http://www.change.org

Answer 7

uh those are the basics!