Found over at Zenhabits, I love these 34 Little Ways to Share with the World.
- Help an entrepreneur with a Kiva donation.
- Volunteer your services with a homeless shelter, soup kitchen, or other charity organization.
- Donate money, food, or others goods to charity.
- Bake cookies or brownies and share with a neighbor.
- Put your favorite recipes on a blog and share with the world.
- Volunteer your expertise (whatever it is) to the world, and give those services to anyone who needs them.
- Give step-by-step instructions for doing something valuable you know how to do, online, for all to read.
- Give your books away to friends or charities.
- Start a community garden in your neighborhood, or contribute to an existing one.
- Start a CSA, or become a member of one that exists.
- Become a member of Freecycle, and participate.
- Join or form, and participate in a cooperative (food, bikes, books, housing, more).
- Give people a ride in your car. Carpool.
- Let strangers use your car when you don’t need it.
- Hold potlucks every week, rotating among friends/family.
- Look into co-housing.
- If you own copyrighted work, uncopyright it.
- Perform random acts of kindness.
- When someone wants to repay you for something, ask them to pay it forward instead.
- Contribute code to Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS).
- Donate money to a small programmer who has created FOSS, or buy shareware.
- Clean up a park near you.
- Sign up, participate, and contribute to bike sharing, car sharing, and other sharing organizations.
- Help transform streets back into public spaces meant to be shared by everyone. (more)
- If you’re in southern California, check out Neighborgoods.
- Borrow and lend things in your neighborhood by using Share Some Sugar.
- Barter via Craigslist. Or try u-exchange, trashbank, care to trade, trade a favor, or joe barter.
- Share your tips with others online or through a free ebook.
- Create great software and give it to the world for free.
- Smile. Be compassionate in all human transactions.
- Invest in a friend who wants to start her own business. Don’t ask for the money back for at least a few years.
- Make things, and give them to people.
- Read to the blind, help the elderly, assist those with disabilities.
- Start or contribute to a tool-lending library in your neighborhood.
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