A trip for the environment

1. Locate parks, nature reserves and squares that need cleaning and care;
2. Raise funds: money and / or materials - necessary for the project: plastic bags to collect waste, gloves for volunteers, and a truck for waste removal at the end of activities at the local/neighboring waste site.
3. Recruit of volunteers for the project: advertise the need for volunteers through cross-community platforms and community institutions such as schools, youth movements and synagogues; advertise on local bulletin boards and more;

Activities to strengthen inter-generational ties

1. Locate schools or youth movements interested in participating, and allow them time to plan their encounter.
2. Locate institutions for the elderly interested in holding such an activity. Understand the social environment and physical state of the place to be able to better prepare and hurdle the age differences.
3. Match schools to institutions for the elderly, according to geographical considerations or type of activity.
4. Provide the necessary equipment, depending on the type of activity that will take place. For example, if this activity involves watching a movie, a theatre should be located willing to host the community and screen a suitable film. Alternatively, a large space can be found where a projector, screen and sound system can be setup with enough chairs brought-in cinema style. If an arts and crafts activity will take place, bring in the right materials in sufficient quantity for all participants, as well as tables, chairs and plastic covering for the tables. Recruit volunteers to organize the space.
5. Recruit volunteers for ongoing operations of the activity, take care of refreshments, seating arrangement, and more. For this, it is necessary to advertise the need for volunteers through cross-community platforms and community institutions such as schools, youth movements and synagogues, local bulletin boards and more.
6. Invite the community to participate in the activity by advertising
7. For elementary schools, lesson should be held on the subject of "a day of good deeds" focusing on the importance of giving and bringing the generations together. If the project involves creating greeting cards for the elderly, devise a way to distribute the cards, for example the children can visit the nursing home, or only have the cards delivered by a the project's coordinator.

Blood donation and organ donation signup

1. Locate a place suitable for the activity, such as a central square, community center, a common meeting place.
2. Appeal to Magen David Adom or other organizations that handles blood donations to provide medics, personnel and their professional equipment.
3. Appeal to the organization entrusted with organ donations in your state (to search for such organizations go to http://organdonor.gov/donor/registry.shtm) to bring in professional personnel and material necessary to enlist organ donors and bone marrow donors.
4. Receive from these organizations information on the type of place where these activities can be held, and the required equipment, such as tables, chairs, space size, trash cans, drinks, refreshments and more. Recruit volunteers for ongoing operations at the activity site, such as taking care of refreshments preparation, arranging and staffing posts (that do not require professionals) and more. For this, it is necessary to advertise the need for volunteers through cross-community platforms and community institutions such as schools, youth movements and synagogues, local bulletin boards and more.
5. Invite the community to donate blood or take part in the activities by advertising Communal activities

Collecting books in favor of establishing libraries for at risk populations

1. Locate a neighborhood where there's no library and is a facility/ free space that can be turned into a library;
2. If the place needs painting, fixing, tiding and / or equipment - find financing or donation of the materials and working hands;
3. Have a place in a central place of the community where the books can be kept after being collected before transferred to the new library
4. Encourage the community members to bring used books they [or their parents] have already read;
5. After the new library is ready- you can have a happening where you launch it and invite the residents of the neighborhood to see and enjoy their new library.
6. Additionally, all community members can be invited to the happening to see the new library and have a story telling event together with the kids from the neighborhood.

1. This happening needs volunteers to be arranges and handled.
2. Volunteers should be recruited for these missions, by advertising the need for volunteers through cross-community platforms and community institutions, such as schools, youth movements and synagogues; advertise on local bulletin boards and more;
3. Missions for the volunteers:
4. Preparing the new library to have the books: painting, fixing, tiding, hanging shelves and arranging the place;
5. Checking the books that were being brought and fixing if needed.
6. Transferring the books from the a location chosen to the new library;
7. Arranging the new library- putting the books on the shelves;
8. Decorating the place for the happening;

Community picnic

1. Locate a place for your community picnic.
2. Provide the necessary equipment, such as tables, chairs, tablecloths, utensils, etc.
3. Send out invitations with a request to confirm participation, allowing better estimation of the number of guests and the list of dishes.
4. Recruit volunteers for the ongoing activities at the picnic, such as preparation of refreshments, seating arrangements, and more. For this, it is necessary to advertise the need for volunteers through cross-community platforms and community institutions such as schools, youth movements and synagogues, local bulletin boards and more.
5. Think up special activities for children or games that can be held at this event.
6. Invite the community to take part in the picnic by advertising.

Improving the appearance of the city- Gardening

1. Before building the garden, make sure that there exists an irrigation
2. nfrastructure and someone who will be responsible to cultivate and water the garden.
3. Getting started: before planting, prepare the area where the planting is to be carried out:
4. Uproot weeds / old seedlings
5. Clean the area
6. f the soil is hard / dry, water and wait about 15 minutes.
7. Dig and turn over the earth
8. Raise funds - money or material - required to build / care for the garden: tools, seedlings.
9. At the last stage of the two types of projects:
10. Recruit volunteers to execute the project: advertise the need for volunteers through cross-community platforms and community institutions such as schools, youth movements and synagogues; advertise on local bulletin boards and more;

Making sweets packages

1. First of all, you'll have to locate a senior home or hospital willing to participate in such an activity;
2. Collect sweets and treats for then packages: ask local businesses for supplies in donation, or purchase the materials.
3. Dedicate a couple of hours to making the packages and decorating them
4. Decide on how the packages will be given out to the elderly / hospitalized people: will the children themselves hand the packages? Will older pupils come to the nursing home / hospital and give the packages? Will one of the staff go to the nursing home? Will other volunteers go out and distribute the packages?

Storytelling

1. Locate a place for suitable for storytelling, such as a local library, community center, or school library.
2. Select a relevant topic about which you want to tell a story, such as accepting someone different from you, contributing, actions of good and more.
3. Think up creative activities that pertain to the story and can be carried out after story time is over.
4. Contact local writers and enlist them in these activities.
5. If the event takes place only with volunteers and without writers, advertise the need for volunteers through cross-community platforms and community institutions such as schools, youth movements and synagogues, local bulletin boards and more.
6. Invite the community to take part in the activities by advertising.