“Inviting an author creates literacy-rich experiences that contribute to lifelong learning and make a lasting impression….”

Barry Warner – Rockland County Times

• Invite your local press to your author event!
  
• Have a Spaghetti Dinner
• Once-A-Month Food Drive Friday
• Plant A Tree
• Recycle sneakers / printer cartridges
• Save box tops and pull tabs
• Collect eyeglasses and school supplies for various causes.
• Write letters to a local senior citizens group and make friends for Bingo!
• Have a "lunch bunch" knit hats for the homeless/knit blankets for an animal shelter
• Have a clothes drive
• Clean up a park or playground
• Learn to play Bocce

Plant a garden at your school or in your
neighborhood like Marcy from "City Green"
(Coffee cans on window sills work great too!)

Decorate the halls of your school!
Joseph Citta Elementary turned their
school's hallways into the community map
from Grandpa's Corner Store

Host a fund raiser! - Delsea High School
students raised $2100 for the Voorhees
Animal Shelter

Parkway School students raised 50,000
pennies for Habitat for Humanity