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26 Ways to Live United
| 1. | Invite a friend, neighbor, family member to attend a school board meeting with you. |
| 2. | Organize a book drive with your family, co-workers, school, club or faith community |
| 3. | Read to children in your family, at your library, or with a local non-profit engaged in child care or literacy. |
| 4. | Purchase school supplies for a local school to distribute to children who need them. |
| 5. | Enroll your child in a summer reading program at the local library. |
| 6. | Donate your newspaper subscription to a local school when you go on vacation. |
| 7. | Allow a high school student to shadow you at work and show them how apply things you learned in school. |
| 8. | Take the children in your life to a local museum, exhibit or play. |
| 9. | Be a mealtime partner for a pre-school class to help kids develop social skills. |
| 10. | Mentor an at-risk youth at your neighborhood school. |
| 11. | Bring a child in your life to a bank to have a tour and open up a savings account. |
| 12. | Tutor at an adult literacy or technology program |
| 13. | Donate new or gently used professional clothing to an organization assisting individuals in seeking employment. |
| 14. | Serve as a greeter at a free tax preparation community coalition site to help low-income families acquire up to thousands of dollars in earned income tax credits. |
| 15. | Volunteer to prepare tax returns for low-income families. |
| 16. | Contact your local representative about and issue affecting working people in your community. |
| 17. | Ask your bank if they offer free checking and savings accounts to low-income families and encourage them to start if they don’t. |
| 18. | Engage with a middle school to teach a class on how to save money and watch with them as it grows. |
| 19. | Help senior citizens learn how to detect and prevent fraud. |
| 20. | Contact your local health clinic to offer assistance in anything from distributing flyers to serving on an event committee to writing a letter to the editor on their behalf. |
| 21. | Check into what healthy snacks are or are not available in your local schools and call on others to promote tasty healthy meals and fun exercise at school. |
| 22. | Start a walking group for friends, families, neighbors and/or community members that meets regularly at a set time and location. Soon the group will exist even if you can’t make it! |
| 23. | Get a flu shot. |
| 24. | Buy pedometers for your friends and have a fun competition for who can walk the most steps. |
| 25. | Purchase personal care items such as deodorant, toothbrushes and soap and drop them off at the local homeless shelter. |
| 26. | Help transport families to necessary medical appointments so children can have proper screening and immunizations. |
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Five Ways to Live United
| 1. | Purchase school supplies for a local school to distribute to children who need them |
| 2. | Allow a high school student to shadow you at work and show them how apply things you learned in school |
| 3. | Tutor at an adult literacy or technology program |
| 4. | Purchase personal care items such as deodorant, toothbrushes and soap and drop them off at the local homeless shelter |
| 5. | Help senior citizens learn how to detect and prevent fraud |
