100 EASY things you can do to help you stay on track on your Jewish Journey.

Here are 100 ideas that will enable you to make a difference in the lives of others. Feel free to engage in one of these or, create some of your own.

1. Collect soap from hotels and give it to a local shelter.

2. E-mail your legislator/senator/congress person/city council member anytime you are asked.

3. Volunteer one hour a month visiting the elderly.

4. Pull a group of friends together and pick up trash for one hour (call it a "let's get trashed party").

5. Give your children's old toys to a homeless shelter (take the children with you).

6. Set aside one day and do not mix milk and meat.

7. Take your old books to your county library or local elementary, junior or senior high school.

8. The day after Halloween, candy goes on sale for next to nothing. Buy loads of it and make goody bags to bring to your local hospital, homeless shelter, inner city church, etc. for upcoming holidays.

9. Donate your old computers to a school or place that needs them.

10. Have a Shabbat dinner in your home for someone new to the community.

11. Volunteer at your local hospital to visit patients. Bring them a Shabbat basket if their stay includes a Shabbat.

12. If you see someone begging on the street, offer to buy them a meal rather than just giving them money.

13. Attend a political briefing session in your community.

14. Sign up to be a member of your young adult division.

15. Participate on a singles mission.

16. Adopt a child and read to him or her through your local read commission.

17. When you hear an ambulance, stop and say a prayer that all will be well.

18. Attend synagogue with a group of friends and have dinner together afterwards.

19. Build a sukkah in your backyard.

20. Go on a family mission.

21. Say the shema when you wake up and when you go to sleep.

22. Attend one torah study session within two months after the conference.

23. Look a stranger in the eyes, smile and say hello as if you mean it.

24. Attend an interfaith service in your community.

25. Make a gift to the federation and know that you will never meet the recipient of these dollars.

26. Video your grandparents and get their history forever.

27. Call your local federation and volunteer to work Super Sunday or other phon-a-thons.

28. Call the Home for the Aged and ask for the name of a resident and call every Friday just to be a phone buddy and say Shabbat Shalom.

29. Take your old magazines to the library.

30. Recruit others to attend educational and campaign events in your community.

31. Do home improvements for the elderly or the needy.

32. Bring a friend to the Washington conference.

33. Encourage someone to visit Israel.

34. Keep McDonald's coupons in your car or wallet and give them instead of cash when asked by a street person for money.

35. Volunteer to do a community service project on Christmas, such as serving a meal to the service men and women or the homeless.

36. Call Hillel in your community and offer to host one student for the year for all holidays.

37. Go on a community mission.

38. Volunteer to answer phones at a domestic abuse center.

39. Donate your old winter coats to those in need.

40. Donate canned goods to the food pantry.

41. The day after Christmas, go to ydur local toy store and ask the manager if he'll give you a deal to buy sets of inexpensive toys. Stock up on a great many toys that you can save for the following Chanukah and Christmas. If you really want the experience to be complete, take the candy and wrapped toys and make arrangements to visit, just before Christmas, a storefront inner city church in a part of town you never go to. Share their worship with them, and then hand out the toys and candy-you'll never forget it!

42. Tutor in a literacy program.

43. Volunteer to go food shopping for an elderly person.

44. Volunteer as a buddy at a Jewish school for special needs children.

45. Volunteer to help clean up a home.

46. Donate your old business clothes so that men and women can use them for job interviews. Spend some time with them teaching them some good interview techniques.

47. Deliver Passover baskets, etc. through Maot Chitim.

48. Skip dessert at a meal or a party. Donate the money you would have spent to Maot Chitim.

49. Walk the block of your street and pick up trash.

50. Have a coffee at your house and introduce your friends to Federation.

51. Participate in the Walk for Israel.

52. Participate in your community's Mitzvah/Social Action day.

53. Take a goodie bag with you when you leave a restaurant: Place your goodie bag somewhere where a homeless person might find it (on top of a mail box, on a park bench, by a bus stop). If you are feeling really nice, ask the restaurant to throw a plastic fork in too!

54. McDonald Land Toys (ok...not kosher, but...): Teach your kids about tzedakah by having them save their unopened McDonald's toys (Happy Meal give-a-ways). Once they have a shoe box full, donated them to a children's hospital, homeless shelter or wherever kids are in need.

55. Airplane Travel Time Gift: Let the people who are in a real hurry get off of an airplane first or go through Security first. They may have a plane to catch...wouldn't you want the same done for you?

56. Keep peanut butter crackers in your car to give to the homeless.

57. Brighten-Up someone's Day: Drop fresh flowers off at a homeless shelter, old age home or soup kitchen. Takes no time, costs very little but sure adds warmth and beauty to some lonely places. Extra points: Drop off a blooming plant so that it will be a long-term addition to the home

58. Quick Handouts: Keep non-perishable foods in your briefcase, handbag or car so that as you pass someone in search of spare change - you can give them some real nourishment instead (suggestions: Cheese or Peanut butter crackers, Box of Raisins, Breakfast bars, etc.)

59. If you know that someone will be traveling to Israel, give him or her $1, so that they can give tzedakah (charity) on your behalf when they are there!

60. Hold the door open for someone. Hold an elevator door open for someone...and of course, hold the door open for people with strollers. Extra points: if you hold open a door to a place you are not even going to yourself!

61. Tutor in English as a second language program.

62. Donate movie tickets and snack coupons to a local homeless shelter or home for battered women.

63. Take your old or extra kids toys and books to either a homeless shelter or children's ward of a hospital.

64. Set up a food drive at your neighborhood grocery: Ask your local grocery store if you can set up a big barrel at the entrance to their store. Put a sign on it and ask people to drop a can of food in after they have gone shopping. At the end of the week, donate the food to a shelter or food pantry. Easy to do!

65. Put a tzedakah box in your kitchen or your bedroom and put your pocket change in it at the end of every day. You would be surprised how much money you can collect in a month!

66. Put a grocery bag in every child's closet and as clothes get too small teach them to put them in the bag. When the bag fills up (with clothes, toys, shoes, books), you and your kids can take them to a homeless shelter, goodwill or Jewish agency serving children. Kids get a thrill out of giving the bag themselves.

67. When a friend or neighbor is on bed rest or has just had a baby, make an easy dinner for the family (please respect if Kosher) or order a pizza dinner delivery for the family.

68. Together with your children, draw holiday (Rosh Hashanah, Chanukah, Passover, and Purim) cards and deliver them to a home for the aged. (For Purim, deliver them in costume). You will want to arrange this with the administration beforehand. Wait until you see the faces brighten up. And then, expect a few tears.

69. As a birthday gift to a little girl, enclose some cute hair bows in a box with a certificate of a contribution to a children's worthy cause in the birthday girl's name.

70. Join your local BGS chapter or start one if there is not already a chapter.

71. Call you brother or sister to say hi (OK--it picks up on call your parents).

72. Read a Jewish magazine at least once a month.

73. Write a Letter to the Editor of your local paper regarding something you believe in.

74. Learn the names of your mail carrier, the janitor in your office, the security guards in your office building or kids schools, synagogue, etc.

75. Bring at least one friend with you to Mitzvah Madness Day.

76. Take an adult education class about something Jewish.

77. If you have never had Shabbat dinner before, invite yourself to someone else's Shabbat dinner.

78. Send your mom flowers on YOUR birthday...it was a birthday for her too!

79. JOIN A SYNAGOGUE.

80. Get involved in a committee at your synagogue.

81. Support your local kosher butcher even if you do not keep kosher.

82. Recycle!

83. Leave a tip for housekeeping when you are staying in a hotel.

84. Say hello to a homeless person who is sitting on the sidewalk.

85. Give up your seat on the subway, traln, or bus to the elderly, physically challenged and a man or woman traveling with little children (It's amazing how many people don't).

86. When the weather is bad (cold and snowy for those of us up North), offer to do grocery shopping for a neighbor, friend, or family member who would have difficulty getting out and about that day.

87. If you have your own business, make communal involvement a part of your corporate culture and encourage your employees to get involved in community.

88. Volunteer to chaperone a teen dance or teen weekend at your synagogue of JCC.

89. lnvite someone who is new to your city/town for Shabbat. Make room at your table for the stranger.

90. Treat the people in your office (regardless of rank or title) with the same respect with which you want to be treated.

91. Thank your secretary and assistant at the end of the day for all of their hard work.

92. Take time out of your day to visit someone who is either housebound or in the hospital.

93. Make friends and family a priority. Take time out of your busy workday to re-connect with the people who are important to you.

94. Volunteer to be a Jewish Big Brother or a Jewish Big Sister.

95. Spearhead a collection drive in your community to collect new or slightly used blankets and donate them to a homeless shelter or the city mission and try to find a local dry-cleaning business that is willing to donate its services to clean the blankets on an on-going basis.

96. Deliver hot meals to the housebound through your community's meals on wheels program.

97. Volunteer to help in an adult literacy program or to read to the blind.

98. Begin and end each day with a prayer of thanksgiving.

99. Think of 50 more things you can do with your friends and family so you can continue to be at the right place at the right time and make a difference in people's lives.

100. Go to the General Assembly (GA). For more info go to www.jewishfederations.org!