Additional Resources for the manual:
Other ideas:
  • ​Collecting for local agencies
    • Food for Fines (for food bank)
    • Luggage/back packs for kids displaced from homes
    • Socks , etc. for homeless shelters
    • Cards for military personnel
    • School supplies for needy families
    • Book collection (for special location or for library!)
  • About town
    • “You Know You’re from [Your Town] If…   (reminisce program)
    • Coffee with the Council
    • City Department Fair 
    • Local artisan groups (quilters, woodcarvers, train guys, etc.)
  • Area highlights
    • Animal Rescue League (or similar group) presenter
    • Visit with a Veteran (host a panel of local residents who are veterans of various time periods/wars)
    • Zoo presenter
    • Presentations by any “interesting people” in your community (people with unique talents, collections, experiences, etc.)
    • Local sports personalities (current or past)
  • Building together
    • Adult Lego clubs
    • Painting party (either a social paint canvas night, or a “paint the library” if you need a painting job done!)
    • Game nights (electronic or board)---playing games together can help build community
    • Giant Jenga game!
    • After-hours games & wine tasting (for the 21 & over crowd)
    • Robotics 
  • Gardening for the community
    • Community garden project
    • Partnering with local homeless shelters to teach/encourage gardening
    • Sharing bounty with local food pantries
  • Recycling
    • Local waste management facility as guest speaker
    • Initiate a new recycling program at your library (example: ink cartridges, pop cans/bottles…could be a fund raiser!)
    • Craft programs made from recyclables
    • Altered book program (from your weeded books!)
    • Jewelry made from recycled paper (magazine pages turned into beads, etc.)