What are some good ways to earn community service hours in high school?

Question

I have about 8hrs because I volunteered at the Maryland Special Olympics soccor game at my school. Does anyone know of anything else I can do for community service hours? I'm in 11th grade.

Answer 1

what i do is:

-hospital volunteer

-walk/feed dogs at animal shelter

-entertain at senior center

-read to kids at the library

-tutor kids at the elementary school

-city/beach clean up

-red cross

-serve food at soup kitchen

doing a bunch of things prevents bordom and racks up a ton of hours.

Answer 2

Any of these search engines will help you find opportunities in your area with dozens, even hundreds, of organizations:

VolunteerMatch, http://www.volunteermatch.org

Idealist, http://www.idealist.org

Change.org, http://www.change.org

CraigsList, http://www.craigslist.com

Network for Good, http://www.networkforgood.org

http://www.1-800-volunteer.org/

ServeNet, http://servenet.org/

Also, contact your local volunteer center; you can find this via the Points of Light Foundation web site, http://www.pointsoflight.org/centers/

There's also this government sponsored site, http://volunteer.gov/gov/ which provides volunteer positions through USA federal land agencies like Fish & Wildlife, Forest Service, National Parks, etc.

If you want to be a volunteer to help with the consequences of a natural disaster, such as Hurricane Katrina, you need to register and prepare NOW. Here's a web site where you can register and start your preparation so that you can help the next time disaster strikes:

http://www.helpindisaster.org/

Answer 3

Maybe volunteer to clean up / maintain local parks or the town commons?

Answer 4

I usually go to volunteer at inner city day cares for children, I think that it is so much fun and I always feel like I am helping.  Just research places in  your community.

Answer 5

www.volunteermatch.com

You'll get a ton of opportunities in your area.

Answer 6

I don't live over there but,

don't you have some sort of city news letter or paper.

that shows any festivals going on?

If so then check that out.

Join clubs?