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Community Service Projects

There are several projects you can do within your local community. *NOTE: Many of these lists are featured in our organizations' Guide to Memberships.*

• Host a workshop or activity for the area Girl scouts to earn their Music Badges 
• Participate in Christmas in April or assist Habit for Humanity at some other point throughout the year with repairing and building houses for the underprivileged 
• Adopt-a-Highway: commit the chapter to cleaning a 1-2 mile stretch of highway a couple times each semester 
• Host a canned food drive 
• Assist in a soup kitchen during the holidays 
• Play Christmas music for nursing homes, children's hospitals, mentally ill, or Salvation Army Bell Ringers 
• Participate in the Big Brother/ Big Sister Program 
• Assist the Make a Wish Foundation in making a hurting child's dream come true 
• Put a small band together for a community  parade 
• Co host a Charity Celebrity Auction with the local Aids Foundation or another nonprofit organization 
• Advertise for school events
• Recycle cans
• Put together a pep band for small high school football games
• Red Cross blood drive
• Offer scholarships to graduating high school band members
• Rake leaves
• Ushering for graduation
• Visit a hospital to play with the children
• Host a Christmas party for needy children
• Donate items to a Battered Women's Shelter
• Phone-a-thon
• Toys for Tots
• Write to military personnel
• Give low cost lessons

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