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50 Ways to LIVE UNITED

  1. Call your local library and volunteer to host a children's reading hour

  2. Volunteer for a program that teaches life skills

  3. Take a walk with your family and collect trash in your neighborhood

  4. Make a decision to donate new or gently used items

  5. Walk an elderly neighbors pet

  6. Encourage your family and co-workers to get their yearly health screening

  7. Send a message to your representative and advocate on behalf of issues you support

  8. Bring a child in your life to a bank and help to open a savings account by providing start-up funding

  9. Go for a walk on your lunch hour...and encourage others to join you

  10. Be a cheerleader!  Attend a youth sports event and cheer for both sides

  11. Help out at a health fair

  12. Tutor at an adult literacy or technology program

  13. Help senior citizens learn how to detect and prevent fraud

  14. Spend time with a child and listen to their dreams and hopes for the future

  15. Give blood

  16. Send cards to sick children

  17. Make care packages for deployed soldiers

  18. Participate in United Way's Day of Caring

  19. Mow your sick neighbors yard

  20. Coach your child's little league team

  21. Participate in a walk-a-thon

  22. Donate canned goods to a food bank

  23. Share your skills or talents at a senior home

  24. Volunteer at your local school

  25. Organize a reading club for your children in your neighborhood or church

  26. Register to vote

  27. Adopt a pet

  28. Write letters to soldiers overseas

  29. Join the PTA

  30. Welcome new neighbors

  31. Offer free babysitting to a single mom or family in need

  32. Donate gently used books to a daycare center

  33. Agree to be an organ donor on your driver's license

  34. Donate unused instruments to a school music program

  35. Organize a fund raising event such as a drink stand, car wash, or yard sale and donate the proceeds to a charity

  36. Send your favorite teacher a thank you note

  37. Invite someone to dinner who would otherwise be alone

  38. Take a casserole to a couple with a newborn baby

  39. Be a designated driver

  40. Wear a ribbon or bracelet to show support of a cause

  41. Attend your child's recitals and sports events

  42. Recycle

  43. Volunteer to walk dogs at an animal shelter

  44. Donate coloring books to a hospital emergency room

  45. Donate your old cellular phone to a women's shelter

  46. Learn how to help a choking victim

  47. Locks of love

  48. Support the homeless with gift certificates for food

  49. Switch to CFL bulbs in your home

  50. Donate your time or money to support the United Way of Okaloosa & Walton Counties