Some easy-to-perform Chesed suggestions:
Clean up a city street, a public park or another area in need of cleaning
Every time you go shopping this week, buy one extra non-perishable food item. At the end of the week, bring the food to a homeless shelter, food pantry, soup kitchen, or senior center, or bring it to an organization that distributes food to the hungry.
Be especially mindful of your behavior/ethics.
Donate Blood at your local hospital or blood bank, or organize a blood drive in your community
Make new community members feel at home by delivering gift baskets and inviting them over to dinner.
Make yourself available to drive someone to the airport, store, doctor or hospital.
Choose one person and do something nice for them today
Call your siblings, parents, grandparents or an elderly friend or relative today.
Plant a garden at a shelter, nursing home, hospital or synagogue.
Arrange a bake sale and donate the proceeds to tzedakah.
Smile when you greet people throughout the day.
Buy fresh flowers for hospital patients, nursing home residents or someone who will appreciate it.
Offer to go grocery shopping for someone who would find it difficult to go on their own.
Offer to play with a neighbor's children so that the parents can have a break.
Today give a small gift to your spouse, child, sibling or neighbor to show your appreciation for them. Alternatively, during the week give a small gift to your bus driver or mailman to show your appreciation for what they do.
Help people in need with household chores like cooking, cleaning and laundry.
Organize a toy drive or children's clothing drive. Donate contributions to organizations that will distribute them to children in need.
Organize an intergenerational crafts program, by having friends and their children do crafts with the residents of a retirement center.
Contact Locks of Love or Zichron Menachem to find out how you or someone you know can donate a lock of hair. Encourage your local hair salon to take part in this process.
Think of something you do well, and use your talent to benefit others. For example, perform magic in a children's hospital, or play an instrument for residents of a nursing home.
Take your child to visit children in a hospital. Bring games for them to play together. Then leave the games as gifts for the patients.
Volunteer for an hour at an organization of your choice.
Help support the Israeli economy by purchasing Israeli products at local stores and on the Internet.
Send pizza or ice cream to Israeli soldiers through pizzaidf.org or other similar sites.
Show solidarity with Israel by wearing a blue ribbon, pin or displaying an Israeli flag.
Invite people who are new to the community over for meals
Make Arts & Crafts Packages with children for chayalim (soldiers) or for children in hospitals.
Organize a toy drive and donate to Zichron Menachem in Israel at tel: 02-643-3001, email: info@zichron.org, www.zichronmenachem.org, and to Chai Lifeline in the US www.chailifeline.org. (Other ideas include: toys, books, cd's, dvd's, computer and video games, software, sweets, cakes for birthdays, hair donations, drivers to take children to and from hospital, etc.)
Arrange to repair or paint rundown areas of the elderly community, or offer to go shopping for home-bound elderly
Help clean up and preserve the sanctity of a local cemetery
Chesed opportunities in Ramat Bet Shemesh include: Food Rescue call Marla Braun at 02-999-7956. To offer rides for down syndrome babies to therapy in Tzora call Rochel Leah Dubovik at 02-999-5925. To offer rides for sick children to and from hospitals, call Leah Resnick at 02-999-6328, or call Krishevsky at 02-991-0047.
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