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BUILD COMMUNITY!

Here are some suggestions about how you and your family can begin building community today!

  • Get to know your neighbors

  • Look up when you're walking

  • Plant flowers

  • Use your library

  • Play outside

  • Buy from local merchants

  • Share what you have

  • Help a lost dog

  • Take children to the park

  • Honor elders

  • Support neighborhood schools

  • Fix it even if you didn't break it

  • Have a potluck supper

  • Organize a community garden

  • Pick up litter

  • Read stories aloud to someone

  • Join or start a book club

  • Dance in the street

  • Talk to your mail carrier

  • Listen to the birds

  • Put up a swing

  • Help carry something heavy

  • Barter for your goods

  • Start a tradition

  • Ask someone where they grew up

  • Hire young people for odd jobs

  • Organize a block party

  • Bake extra and share

  • Ask for help when you need it

  • Open your shades

  • Sing together

  • Share your skills

  • Listen before your react to anger

  • Seek to understand

  • Join a carpool

  • Volunteer your time

  • Visit a local nursing home

  • Attend school and community sponsored events

  • Join (or form!) a support group for parents

  • Walk barefoot in the grass with someone you love

  • Make dinner for a neighbor you know is sick

  • Mentor a youth in your community

  • Be kind to everyone!

  • Hire skilled applicants from the Vocational Rehabilitation pool or the Welfare to Work transition program for your  local business.

How do you build community?
Got another suggestion?
Let us know:

 

United Way of York County
36 Water Street/PO Box 727

Kennebunk, ME  04043

(207) 985-3359 tel/(207) 985-3564 fax