Local Ideas
- Provide labor for clean-up of an RTA rapid station area
- Paint a home for an elderly couple
- Do yard work for elderly or physically challenged
- Do end of season landscaping for a youth center
- Build/install a ramp for physically challenged
- Fabricate indoor wheel chair lift in multi-story home
- For adult shelter: Set-up electrical / mechanicals for laundry room, install washers/dryers, supply laundry detergent/laundry products,
- Supply dictionaries for local public/parochial students third grade
- Fund purchase of defibrillators for local schools and civic centers
- Fund park benches in a nature center
- Landscaping and benches for public library
- Fund for multiple flag display at sports center
- Fund informational signs for a nature center
- Fund purchase of trees & plant in a city park
- Fund telemetry equipment for 911 communication center
- Participate in a Habitat for Humanity type project
- Participate in preparing area for a bike / jogging path
- Hold ice cream party & entertainment for nursing home residents
- Purchase catered meals and serve to nursing home residents and provide for entertainment
- Mentoring for youth
- Literacy program tutors
- Reading stories to children
- Delivery of food/toiletries for shut-ins
- Holiday gift boxes
- Deliver holiday packages assisting a prison family relief project
- Participate in programs with a Rotary Partners (see Rotary Partners on www.Rotary.org)
- Assist public library moving to a new location
- Assist library in disposing of outdated books
- Youth intervention work with social agency
- Work with Big Brother and Big Sister programs
- Act as officials at a Special Olympics event
- Assist in crowd control at a civic event
- Ask your local community what they need
- Go to Rotary.org and search for project ideas
- Work with your Cluster on a project
Contributed by Barry A. Becker PAG 6630 Cuyahoga NW, Past District Community Service Committee Chairperson and other clubs and clusters in District 6630