• Say hello to someone you don't know.

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• Pick up trash in your neighborhood or a park for 30 minutes.

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​• Buy a beverage for the customer behind you.

 

• Meet a neighbor you don't know.

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​​• Smile at someone you wouldn't normally smile at.

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• Pick one person who is in your life daily and

   thank them for being there.

 

• Turn off your cell phone during dinner, a film, a play,  a

   conversation.  Be a compassionate  listener and audience

  member.

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• Take a minute and just breathe deeply.

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• Volunteer your time at a charity you feel good about.

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• Take a sick friend some soup.

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• Make a micro-loan to someone in a developing country.

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• Take something needed to your local animal shelter.

   Nebraska Humane Society​                 

   Homeward Bound in the Heartland

   Town and Country Humane Society​  

   SOLAS Council Bluffs Animal Shelter

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• Foster a dog or cat to help socialize it to find a furever home.

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• Join your local neighborhood association and attend a meeting.

   In Omaha 

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• Volunteer to help a family have a home.

   Omaha Habitat for Humanity

 

• Take needed items to a homeless shelter.

   Open Door Mission/Lydia House​     

   Siena/Francis House​

 

• Learn one new thing that helps the planet and include it in

   your routine.

 

• Donate children’s toys and books to homeless shelter.

 

• Pick up cans and bottles around your neighborhood, school or    

   park and recycle them.

 

• Walk or run to raise money to fight an illness.  

 

• Thank a first responder.