Organize a Rosh Hashanah dinner through your synagogue for people who may not have family or friends to share the holiday with
Make a New Year’s resolution relating to improving yourself
As a family determine a tzedakah that you would like to support and have everyone in the family make a contribution
Donate your change from the week in between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to tzedakah
As the prayers discuss life and death, sign up for a CPR course in your area so that you will have the ability to save someone’s life
Encourage people who attend Tashlich (ritual throwing away of one’s sins) to be careful not to speak badly about others
If you are in the New York area, join Dorot the Sunday before Rosh Hashanah, to make packages for the holiday and deliver them to the elderly
Go apple picking and donate the apples with honey to nursing home residents
Make New Year’s cards for victims of terror, the elderly or patients in hospitals
Contact the chaplain of your local hospital and arrange to get the lists of Jewish patients staying in the hospital for Rosh Hashanah and visit them on the holiday
Create honey jars and buy apples to distribute them to a food pantry
Make New Year’s cards and send them to impoverished people in Israel
Make a resolution to stay in contact in closer contact with your grandparents, relatives living overseas, etc.
Bring a basket of apples and honey to a home for seniors
Make tzedakah boxes and give tzedakah daily in the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
Spend time learning about the origin and meaning of Tzom Gedaliah
Commit to being a better person this year
Join a service club at your school or in your community
Think about ways in which you can give back to your community or the Jewish people and act on it
Make a break-fast meal for someone who is too tired to do so for him or herself
Donate the money you would have spent on lunch today to an organization in need
As Tzom Gedaliah falls during the Aseret Yemei Teshuvah (Ten Days of Repentance), take some time to consider others’ thoughts and feelings before pursuing your own actions
Prepare a break-fast meal for a family with limited financial means
Have your school or synagogue partner with Habitat for Humanity and build a house for someone less fortunate
Promote homelessness awareness in your community
Help a neighbor build their Sukkah
Invite an child to a holiday meal
Offer to share your lulav and etrog with someone who does not have one
Arrange a Sukkah decorating event for you synagogue
Have a Sukkah decoration drive for people who cannot afford to beautify their Sukkah
Create a community gemach for old sukkot and related holiday items
Arrange a community wide event to take place during chol hamoed
In the spirit of the Ushpizin, the tradition of inviting one of the seven biblical leaders (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph and David) to our sukkah each night of sukkot, invite people who would otherwise eat alone
Donate old graggers (noisemakers) to your synagogue in advance of the Purim holiday
Call elderly friends and neighbors who are unable to attend Megillah reading on Purim in a synagogue to make sure they have someone to read for them in their home
Call a friends and volunteer to help him or her deliver mishloach manot packages
Set aside money to donate to matanot l’evyonim (money specifically for the holiday of Purim)
