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Choose a category, choose an act (or mix and match), and commit one hour to the act (when appropriate)

FARMING:
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Weed vegetable/flower rows
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Harvest and process vegetables
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Help feed animals
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Collect and wash eggs
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Help with irrigation/fence repair/building
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Help a neighbor with their garden

OLD FOLK:
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Ask 3 old couples' advice on a healthy, enduring marriage
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Sing some songs at a nursing home (try to get a singalong going)
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Drive an elderly neighbor to get errands done
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Read to the bedridden at a nursing facility
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Bring an elderly neighbor a log of frozen homemade cookie dough
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Shovel their walkway

HOSPITALS:
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Dress up as your own invented superhero and talk to bedridden kids
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Read short stories, jokes and poems to kids
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Hold a bake sale and donate proceeds to a patient chosen at random

NEIGHBORS:
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Pick up trash at a park, beach, other public spaces
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Help a neighbor with their garden
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Pick up groceries for a burdened neighbor
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Donate your services (carpentry, dentistry, hairdressing, etc.) to someone in need
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Cook an extra meal and bring it over
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Bring a neighbor a log of frozen homemade cookie dough

HOMELESS:
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Sit down with a homeless person, get their story, and leave them with a backpack/bag full of useful items and/or food
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Make and bring a hot meal to the homeless, and eat with them

STRANGERS:
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Sit through three open AA or NA meetings and record your reactions afterwards
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Find a public, busy place and dance your hardest for a full two minutes
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Give three strangers non-appearance related compliments (you light up the room, you have the best laugh, you inspire me, etc.)
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Tell a cashier 3 or your worst/ best jokes

CIVIL SERVANTS:
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Sit with 3 police officers and talk about what it is for them to serve the public
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Volunteer at a juvenile hall
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Volunteer at a Department of Corrections
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Make something to give to a local fire department
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