How do you make a difference?

I frequently donate blood and I just had them put me in the national registry for bone marrow donation.

I advocate for animals, energy, education, and I also allow my peers to use me as their personal therapist. I love people, animals, and education, so it makes it very easy to help them. I hate the consumption of fossil fuel, and how one day it will probably cause World War III.

I volunteer at local organizations then drop food and money at shelters for both people and animals.

I do all my internet searches through Goodsearch.com and they send money to my favorite charity for every search.

I also click on The hunger site every day to help fight world hunger.

In lots of little ways. I could do more I am sure though.

I donate to a number of charities and not just money, but goods we don’t use, choices I can make about where I buy from and the like too.

I make sure we recycle. I plant native plants (and kill them accidently). I am trying to be more cautious about what I buy. If I don’t need it, I don’t buy it.

I would love to do more voluntary work for my community but I just can’t at the moment. It is on my plan though. I want to be sure I can commit do doing something every week though and I can’t do that right now. I do make a point of trying to be a mentor, rather than only teaching, to my students. It isn’t a huge difference, but I figure if I can encourage people to study and learn and help people to find ways to continue so they don’t drop out… they may go on to make a bigger difference than I am at the moment.

Despite my nihilistic beliefs of nothing we do makes a real difference, I do quite a bit of volunteer work (it’s something to do until I get a job)

I volunteer with the YMCA, promoting healthy living and am helping out with an after school project to help kids expand their knowledge with books.

I have in the past volunteered with CAPC, a zoo, and the local homeless shelter.

I have mostly supported the arts: symphony, opera, theater, art and art education. My work has almost always been in the service community, medicine and education.

I recycle like mad, and I like giving change to the homeless, if I got it. I realize this isn’t really making a difference, but maybe it does a little, in some ways. I don’t know how much recycling can help at this point, if the Earth is as messed up as scientists say it is, but it can’t hurt.
Also I guess it’s pretty easy to give change to some homeless dude, but I don’t do it to make myself feel or look good, it’s because I just genuinely want to.
Otherwise though, I’m a giant prick. XD

I volunteer with the RedCross three days/week, the Brain Injury Association once a week and often in my church. I’m extremely fortunate, and will never again HAVE to work, and I enjoy volunteering.

I have become the go-to person on LBGTQ issues in my library and have created a web resource guide and a display for the library entrance on these topics. It is helping to bring a focus to the college on these issues.

Besides my job, I participate in online astronomy education by live streaming telescope feeds.

I abide by a personal philosophy I call altruistic stoicism. Basically, I go out of my way to help people I know even when all the evidence suggests they may just be using me, because I believe it is not worth the risk of not helping them when they actually may need it, even if there is a risk of me being tread upon.

By questioning rules.