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Spread Love With These DIY Volunteer Programs!
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items One of my favorite things to do is write and send letters/cards to those who need a little extra love. I wanted to create this list to share some of my personal favorite organizations (all of which I have personally volunteered with). Volunteering is...
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Seniors
Hospitalized Kids
Mental Health
Seniors
Send cards, letters, drawings, and other messages of support to isolated seniors.
Alleviate social isolation among older adults through handwritten letters and intergenerational connections!
Love For Our Elders
This nonprofit distributes cheerful drawings to senior citizens, our troops overseas, and anyone in need of a smile!
Color A Smile
Through handwritten messages of love, hope, and joy, the volunteer community brings seniors connection and improves their mental and physical health!
Letters Against Isolation
Connect seniors living in Canada with people from around the globe through the power of the written word!
Sending Sunshine
Make a birthday or holiday card for isolated seniors around the globe!
DOROT
Hospitalized Kids
Send cards, decorate bags, and create activity kits for children in pediatric hospitals.
Provide hospitalized children with hope and joy through handmade cards. Over 500,000 kids have received cards from the organization!
Cards for Hospitalized Kids
Create greeting cards, decorate paper bags, and/or assemble Craft Kits for children in hospitals around the country!
Caitlin's Smiles
Create cards for pediatric patients, including hospitalized and/or traumatized children.
Cardz For Kidz
LOTS of different crafty volunteer opportunities to help support both adults and children who are battling cancer! Cards, crocheted items, painted rocks, art journals, etc.
Kits to Heart (Children AND Adults with Cancer)
Mental Health
Send cards to people in need of extra love and support, individuals battling mental illness, and patients in psychiatric hospitals.
This program collects greeting cards from volunteers and then sends bundles of cards to people who are uplifted by community support, compassion, and kindness!
Cards of Compassion
Provide hope and support to those battling mental illnesses through the power of handwritten letters!
Letters Against Depression
Bring comfort and support to patients hospitalized in psychiatric units across the nation through handmade cards of encouragement!
Inspiring My Generation
Uplift people all over the world including senior citizens, children with illnesses, bereaved children and parents, veterans, deployed troops, frontline responders, cancer patients, foster children, people experiencing homelessness, and more.
Creative Kindness