30 minutes of service?
January 19, 2009
You know you’re busy when a ‘day of service’ sounds like a day off. Sadly, my kids don’t honor MLK day as a national holiday and I will be busting ass on their behalf today, as always.
Here are a couple of quick ideas for parents, like me, who have good intentions, not so good organizational skills, and less than an hour of free time to devote to public service today. In the spirit of efficiency, I say we should go ahead and use this as an opportunity to clean out a closet, too.
DONATE USED BOOKS
Send gently used children’s books (by U.S. mail book rate) to Book Ends and they’ll distribute them to needy school libraries.
BookEnds
6520 Platt Avenue #331
West Hills, CA 91307
DONATE USED CHILDREN’S DVDS
Send them to KidFlicks, and they’ll distribute to children’s hospitals.
Kidflicks/Barta
1755 Wilshire Blvd, Ste 1450
Los Angeles, CA 90025
kidflicks@aol.com
DONATE GENTLY USED STUFFED ANIMALS
Send ‘em to Stuffed Animals For Emergencies (SAFE), and they’ll pass them along to police & fire stations, and emergency workers who distribute them to children caught in traumatic situations.
Log on to the site and click ‘chapters’ to find a volunteer near you. In California, email marianne@enhancementmedia.com for information on where to send.
p.s. If you do any of these things tomorrow, or Wednesday, or a week from tomorrow I think Obama will forgive you.
