1. Start a piggy bank for one of your favourite charities. Drop your loose change in it every day thismonth and see how
quickly that spare change adds up!
CKDO Suggests: Make donation to The Grandview Children’s Centre! Maybe you have pennies still kicking around?
Uxbridge teen Josh Morrison
is trying to raise 10 million pennies ($100,000) to put towards building supplies for a
Habitat for Humanity project that will be known as The Penny House. Donations can be dropped here at our studios
during regular business hours.
2. Send an online message to our troops currently serving in the Canadian Armed Forces.
http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/get-involved/postcard-for-peace/write-to-troops
3. Pay for the order behind you at the drive thru.
4. Donate gently used coats taking up space in your closet. Many local organizations accept gentlyused winter items.
5. Buy a hot drink for someone who works outside like your local crossing guard. Or keep small giftcard denominations
in your car so you’re ready to make someone’s day!
6. Add an extra toy to your shopping list and donate it to a deserving charity. Get the kids involvedby letting them
choose the toy and drop it off.
7. Holiday baking this weekend? Double the batch and surprise a neighbor or the office with a plateof goodies, just
because.
8. Hosting guests over the Holidays? Ask them to bring a canned good or unwrapped toy instead ofa hostess gift. Food
and toys can be dropped off at your local police station or fire hall. Gifts forkids aged 9-14 are needed most.
9. Pets need a Santa Claws too! Make a donation of unwrapped toy, food or bed your local animalshelter! Many local
Humane Societies will accept Canadian Tire money to help purchase supplies!
10. Out shoveling your driveway or scraping your car, make a neighbours’ day easier and clear theirstoo!
11. Slow down during the hustle and bustle! Pledge to be a more patient and courteous driver.
12. Organize a fun Holiday event at work for charity like Pajama Friday or Ugly Sweater Day at work one day this
month. Share you pictures using #25days25ways!
13. Create a new holiday tradition and volunteer your time sorting food at a local food bank, helping at a soup kitchen or
with Habitat for
Humanity.
Food Banks
Simcoe Hall Settlement House
Feed The Need Durham
Daily Bread Food Bank
Second Harvest
The Yonge Street Mission
Clarington East Food Bank
More Toronto Food Banks
Soup Kitchens
The Yonge Street Mission
St Vincent’s Kitchen
The Gathering Place (905) 623-7361
14. Pick up an extra 5 items and drop it in your local grocery store’s food donation bin.
15. Watch out for The Salvation Army’s signature red Christmas kettles and make a generous donation. Skip a step and
donate now at www.fillthekettle.com
16. Cross the sports nut off your gift list by making a donation in their name to one these great charities that allows
every child to play organized sports.
http://www.theiropportunity.com http://jumpstart.canadiantire.ca/en https://hyundaihockey.ca
17. Give the teacher on your list a donation to MusiCounts. MusiCounts helps to keep music alive in schools across
Canada and ensures that children in Canada, regardless of background, have access to a music program through their
school.
18. Leave a loonie somewhere someone can easily find it.
19. Give the gift of life! Book your appointment to give blood today by visiting http://blood.ca!
20. Be a Santa to a senior. To find the closest Be a Santa to a Senior tree near you visit www.beasantatoasenior.com.
You can also volunteer to collect, wrap, and deliver the gifts to the seniors.
21. Anonymously leave a gift card for someone who could use little extra this year. Think gas card, grocery gift card or
clothing store. Sign the card from Santa!
22. Purge toys to get ready for the new ones. Ask the kids to fill a sac or bag with toys to leave under tree for Santa to
take on Christmas Eve. He’ll replace them new toys! Can’t wait for Santa to come? Value Village and Goodwill will
happily find homes for the toys while helping out various local not-for-groups.
23. Buy a tree in support of the Highway of Heroes Living. Honour Canada’s fallen by helping plant 117,000 trees –
one for every fallen soldier since Confederation. All trees will be planted along the Highway
of Heroes between Toronto
and Trenton. Visit http://hohtribute.ca
to find out about their Give a Tree, Get a Tree initiative. You’ll get an extra tree
to plant in a spot that means the most to you or someone you love.
24. Dreaming of a green Christmas?! Get a recycling plan together and bins organized for Christmas morning.
25. Revive and relive a cherished family memory or recipe!