• Volunteer to help struggling students at a local school
• Help an elderly neighbor move, or drive them to the grocery store once a week
• Volunteer at a summer camp
• Organize a food drive for a local food bank
• Gather a group together to sing songs at a nursing home
• Volunteer your professional services to a non profit organization
• Make hats for chemo patients and give them to an oncologist's office
• Provide a backpack loaded with school supplies for a needy student
• Mow your neighbor's lawn
• Be a scout leader or volunteer to help
• Start an afternoon chess or knitting club at the local high school
• Help a senior citizen to become computer literate
• Start a club to make baby hats and blankets for your local hospital
• Donate pet food and baby supplies to a food bank for distribution
• Organize a "clean up the yard day" for a neighbor in need
• Make a small donation each week from your paycheck to a charity; even $3 a week will add up over the year and you'll never miss it
• Pick up litter along the street
• Help out with the Big Brother/Big Sister organization
• Plant some flowers where lots of people can enjoy them
• Drink brewed coffee instead and skip the lattes for a month--then donate that money to a non profit organization

.and let other people know how they can Pay It Forward!