The following 13 meaningful ways to do community service online have been approved by We, The World (a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization), to qualify as community service credit.  All programs are documented online so that the person that assigned your service hours can actually see your work.  Upon completion of your service time, you will receive a stamped letter as well as a certificate of completion from We, The World.  Please verify with the person that assigned your service that you can receive credit for online service prior to starting.  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact arlan@wetheworld.org.

13 Meaningful Ways To Do Community Service Online:

1) PIF Mentor:  After a 30 minute online chat, the protege is sent the online script with directions on how they may now be a PIF Mentor too if they wish. You will also receive a free web page on this site. To see a sample web page click HERE.   PIF Mentors that are doing community service will receive one hour credit for each complete mentoring session.  A complete mentoring session is as follows:

a) Arrange to do a 1/2 hour online chat with a friend, family member, co-worker, or anyone who wishes to learn their purpose, organize their passion, volunteer their gift and engage their heart.

b) Go to any online chat room and go through the 30 minute chat process.  This time, you will be the mentor and they will be your protege.

c) You must make a copy of the chat and send a copy to your protege as well as a copy to aunitedworld@gmail.com.  *Note* As soon as we have our new website www.pifmentor.org completed, this process will be done automatically.

d) Send a follow-up letter to your protege as well as a copy to aunitedworld@gmail.com.

2) PIF Research Director: After a 30 minute online chat, the community service provider contacts the charitable organizations (of interest to them) in their community and provides We, The World (WTW) with the nonprofit’s mission along with the volunteer coordinators name, phone number, email address and fax number.  In addition the community service provider will let the volunteer coordinator know that while they are doing research for WTW, they may also be interested in helping that organization online too.  Often, other charitable organizations may want to recognize their current and past volunteers by emailing certificates of appreciation that they can then download and hang on their wall.

If a community service provider is interested in this type of service, they will keep a chartshowing the time they initially contacted the nonprofit and the time they finished receiving all of the information.   To see the format for sending in research click HERE.

3) PIF Kindness Judge: After a 30 minute online chat, the community service provider researches people and organizations in their community that are Passing It Forward.  Passing It Forward is performing acts of kindness that do not involve money.  To see examples, go to PIF Programs.  WTW wants to highlight these heroic people and organizations on our website and we need your help.  As you can see from the examples, we are looking for people that are mentoring, creating their own videos about passing it forward, or want to start their own PIF Program based upon their purpose, passion, gift and mission.

If a community service provider is interested in this type of service, they will submit the stories to arlan@wetheworld.org.   A community service provider will be given 1/2 hour credit for each story published.

To see the format for sending in a story click HERE.  To see sample community service completion letter click HERE.

4) PIF Public Relations Developer: After a 30 minute online chat, the community service provider will receive a free web page on the www.aunitedworld.org site based upon their purpose, passion and gift and is encouraged to additionally go to www.neighborhoodlink.com and start their own neighborhood website for the zip code that they reside in and set up a free web page.  This online volunteer will become the LO.V.E. It Forward Ambassador, Pass It Forward Director and or We, The World Charity Consultant of their zip code!  It’s all FREE and the online volunteer can be their own administrator for their site!  See sample HERE.

5) Neighborhood Community Service Ambassador:  When you create a free web page on www.neighborhoodlink.com to promote the PIF Movement, you will receive 1/2 hour online credit.  Subsequently, every online discussion that you participate in (promoting PIF) anywhere on the web, you will receive community service credit as long as copies are sent to aunitedworld@gmail.com.

6) Community Service Online Promotion: This online volunteer can now promote their cause on many social networking sites such as Volunteer Match, Do Something, Create the Good, Facebook, and many more!  A community service provider will receive 1/2 hour credit for each new social networking site web page that they developed incorporating their their purpose, passion and gift while Passing It Forward.

7) Create Video’s and/or start your own Social Networking Sites:  Now you can Pass the L.O.V.E.  Forward by promoting your cause to help people, animals, environment, your school, cancer research, etc. Everyone has a gift, what’s yours?  Check out www.loveitforward.webs.com or www.drop.io/PIFMentor/media to more see samples.  For community service your time involved in creating videos and websites must be documented.  For more information, please contact aunitedworld@gmail.com.

Help PIF Create Online Questions to help improve a person’s self esteem and self confidence, we are asking community service providers to read articles of interest and then answer the questions pertaining to those articles.  Click HERE and choose a question # that is not bold. To see examples see the approved article questions.  We are currently looking for people to create the online questions for each article.  Also look at helping others build character by creating online exercises on self help & self improvement.  You will receive 20 minutes of credit for each new set of 7 questions created per article.

9) Answer Article Questions: Currently there are Judy Wright Articles and Everyday Articles, and Ezine articles that are approved for community service. You will receive 10-15 minutes of credit for each set of questions answered.  Or, you may wish to read articles about Creating a World Where People Act More Ethically and comment on what you read.  You will receive 10 minutes community service credit for each one completed.

10) Watch Video’s on the – Law of Attraction -  Building Self Esteem – Self Growth – 101 Power Affirmations -Human Emotions – 7 Habits – 7 Spiritual Laws – Dealing With You -Assertiveness – Momentum – Winners – Gender and answer questions.  You will receive 15 minutes of credit for each video.  Or you can watch the 43 Values Video’s, 20 Happiness Video’s, Get ur GOOD On Videos, and Self Esteem Online Community Service and comment on each one and send your comments to aunitedworld@gmail.com for community service credit.  You will be given 10 minutes credit for comments that prooved you watched the entire video.  If you can create 7 questions for these video’s you will receive 15 minutes of credit.

11) Search You Tube: We are in the process of creating online exercises to help build a persons self esteem and character.  If you have some online ideas for community service, we’d love to hear from you!  All exercises must be completed online.  Please submit all ideas to aunitedworld@gmail.com.

12) Transfer Pages To Our New Website: The new website will be the “My Space” or “Facebook” specifically for people and organizations that want to help and inspire others.  Our mission is for everyone to have the opportunity to have volunteer online PIF Mentors to help them L.O.V.E. It Forward and be able to pass their L.O.V.E. Forward. See sample of our new website.

13) Convert web pages to a different language: Now that the Pass It Forward Movement is in 191 countries, we are looking for bi-lingual community service providers to convert PIF pages to different languages.  Currently, you will notice if you place your mouse over a word, you will be able to see that word in multiple languages.  If you are bi-lingual, please send an email to aunitedworld@gmail.comto discuss this further.

This article has been reprinted with express permission of onekindgame.org, 2010.

It is naïve to think there is never a time when force will be required or when legitimate power has to exert itself. Parents do have to use their authority in order to civilize and nurture unruly adolescents. Bosses sometimes have to fire people who are working against the company’s policies and best interests.

Generally speaking, however, the power of human kindness is a superior form of power to brute force. An attempt to lead by persuasion should always go before the last-ditch requirement of confrontation and pulling rank.

Gail Halvorsen was taught these ideas about kindness, service to others, and the like back in Sunday School as a boy. Now a retired colonel of the U.S. Air Force, he never tires of telling about a situation where putting his convictions to work helped change the course of history. It helped turn an enemy into an ally.

Halvorsen was a pilot in Europe during and after World War II. In post-war Germany, he was on the ground in Berlin. Some of the many hungry children in the once-prosperous Germany that Adolf Hitler had reduced to penury flocked around him and his buddies to ask for food. They were hungry. They were begging for a scrap or bread or a handout from the soldiers’ rations.

Turn an enemy into a friend and heal an old wound!

Halvorsen didn’t have any food for the group of about 30 kids. He had two sticks of gum in his pocket. He handed them to a couple of the children — and had a bright idea. The next time he dropped food into the Soviet-blockaded area of Berlin, he dropped gum and candy out for the children as well. When word got back to his superiors of what he and now other pilots were doing, there was a chewing out for their “unauthorized activities.” But one general defended what the pilots were doing. He encouraged them to keep it up. And soon American candy companies were providing chocolate bars and chewing gum by the tons.

As Halvorsen puts it, “It wasn’t the chocolate. It was hope!” Little children and their beleaguered parents were encouraged to believe that things would someday be better for them. Historians of the period have credited the candy drops for helping change the attitudes of the German people toward their recent enemies in war. The same non-government program is also credited with altering American attitudes toward the German people.

Maybe there are children for you to help in your neighborhood, through your company’s involvement in the larger community, or in some ministry of your church. Maybe the people to think about aren’t even children. Maybe there is just someone who needs an act of positive kindness that you can provide. There are certainly no guaranteed outcomes, but it probably won’t do harm to be gracious.

It could even turn an enemy into a friend or heal an old wound. Sweet!

I myself have gained much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because your kindness has so often refreshed the hearts of God’s people (Philemon 1:7 NLT).

This article has been re-printed with permission. It first appeared at www.heartlight.org. Heartlight exists to provide resources for positive Christian living in today’s world.

35 Little Acts of Kindness

A simple play on words, a negative turned positive and a movement is sparked. “Today I will commit one random act of senseless kindness.” This simple phrase has launched an international movement inspiring people to practice kindness and to “pass it on” to others. It spawned bumper stickers, T-shirts, books, a foundation. There are now even designated Random Acts of Kindness Weeks and World Kindness Days.

While pondering an assignment for his human relations class at Bakersfield College, Chuck Wall overheard the radio news, “We have another random act of senseless violence to report.” He took out the “violence” and stuck in “kindness” and gave his class their assignment. Revolutions come from just such flashes of inspiration and Wall’s students became kindness revolutionaries.

Kindness is contagious. A smile begets a smile, simple courtesies encourage politeness, and a thoughtful gesture lingers in the heart. It feels good to do good and doing good deeds make others feel good. And so it goes, one good turn deserves another, and kindness becomes a way of life. Kindness is fundamental to life and it is essential in creating healthy, happy human relationships. We all need to be shown kindness and we all need to express it. Acts of kindness connect us to one another. It gives us hope in humanity.

Whether random or well planned out and articulated, acts of kindness have a domino affect in creating a better world. Generosity of spirit is just as important as monetary contributions. Sincere acts of kindness are almost always appreciated, even if there is no acknowledgment. For true kindness is unconditional with no thought of reciprocation.

Kindness lingers. We may forget the words, or even the person, but we seldom forget the act, a door held open, a cookie from a neighbor, a word of encouragement when we are feeling blue. Try it today. Commit one random act of senseless kindness. Mow a neighbor’s lawn, let someone cut in line in front of you, hand out balloons for no reason, say something nice to everyone you meet. Chances are those that you touch today will “pass it on” to others. We can change the world, one smile at a time.

For more information visit Actsofkindness.org

Reprinted with permission from DailyOM.com – Inspirational thoughts for a happy, healthy and fulfilling day. Register for free at www.dailyom.com © 2004-2010 DailyOM -All Rights Reserved.

~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.”

~ Miguel de Cervantes

“The best way to find good in thyself is to begin to look for good in others.”

~ Unknown

Random acts of kindness are a wonderful way to reach across time and space to touch the life of another being. Publicizing and raising awareness of the significance of human kindness undoubtedly makes the world a better place. At every step along the path of expanding awareness there is the opportunity to go deeper; to explore more of the potential of our divine humanness. So it is with kindness. Acts of kindness are really not difficult. An intention is formed, and you carry it out. It makes you feel good. Holding kindness and compassion in our hearts, and integrating them into the complexity and stresses of daily life, every day — now there is a deep challenge!

Parents can learn to discipline kindly, remaining firm, yet doing so with love and warmth. Teachers can learn to remain patient and forgiving, no matter how frustrated they might feel with a particular student. Employees can choose to cooperate and remain positive about employers, rather than going into polarity. They can preserve their integrity, leaving the job if they must. Employers can honor the individuality and dignity of each staff member, placing the significance of the human over the material. Men and women can choose to focus on what is beautiful and special about the opposite sex, rather than battling for superiority. Children can learn to let everyone play, rather than setting up exclusive games. We can all begin to celebrate adolescence and help teens to feel proud of themselves, rather than raising our eyebrows in disgust. Teenagers can learn to be patient with and accepting of adults in spite of our limitations, instead of raising their eyebrows in disgust. Drivers can realize that there is enough road to share, and time to get there.

Allowing a spirit of kindness to permeate our collective lives would be a quantum leap, from an evolutionary standpoint. Eliminating meanness, pettiness, gossip, criticism, judgment, polarity, and blame would be a superb act of kindness. It is also a fundamental step along any spiritual path. Those negative qualities reflect a very dense, heavy energy, vested solidly in ego, and they block the light of the spirit. Random acts of kindness amidst the darker energies are certainly a positive start. We can do more. Much more. We can resolve to be kinder, gentler beings. All day, every day. We can treat those closest to us with the same respect and politeness that we reserve for friends and colleagues. We can refuse to litter the lives of others with negative energy. If we do this, we will be doing our part to create a world in which kindness is never a random act, but rather a way of life.

About the Author:
Gwen Randall-Young is a psychotherapist who bridges the worlds of psychology and spirituality, and the author of several books and audio tapes. grandall@telusplanet.net