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Tips for Good Service Projects

Good People Fund McRoberts KY Service Project

Are you planning a service project for you, your youth group, school or community? Here’s a checklist to help you along the way:

  • Determine what core societal issues matter to you most. (i.e. hunger, homelessness, bullying, women’s right, child abuse, gun control, LGBTQ equality, racial bias, literacy).
  • Do some research. What organizations are already working to try and change these issues? Determine if it is important to you whether or not the organization is local.
  • Check The Good People Fund grantee list by category to determine if any of our Good People are engaged in this issue. Contact us if you would like an introduction.
  • Partner with someone at one of the organizations to plan a Good Service Project. If you choose a Good People Fund grantee, we will help make that match.
  • Use our Good Service Model to plan a thorough approach. There are five core components to The Good Service Model. See if you can come up with at least one task for EACH of the five areas:
  1. Service (direct service, volunteering, client encounters)
  2. Philanthropy (tzedakah, fundraising, designated giving, donation of items, securing in-kind support)
  3. Advocacy (political action, policy impact, activism, justice work, petitioning)
  4. Community Engagement (recruitment, engaging others, gathering support, creating avenues for communal involvement)
  5. Education (learning core/system issue history and impacts, gathering background information, collecting stories, developing Jewish values connections, raising awareness in others, developing personal relevance.
  • Take time for reflection throughout your project.
    • What is going well?
    • What challenges are you facing?
    • What have you learned?
    • What have you seen?
    • How do you feel?
    • What else could you be doing?
    • Who else can you involve?
    • What’s the most creative/innovative way to approach this project?
    • What tools could you be using to help you?
    • Who is impacting you the most during this project?
    • What Jewish values/lessons have you encountered or learned?
  • Evaluate the Good Service Project intermittently or as it concludes:
    • Ask the charitable organization partner what you could have done differently.
    • Ask them how you might measure the success and impact of the project.
    • Ask others you have involved what you did well or could have done differently.
    • Determine what resources you might need in order to continue.
    • What new relationships have you made?
    • How will you maintain them?
    • Were you the most effective you could have been at planning and implementation?

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The Good People Fund
  • About
    • Mission
    • Vision
    • Professional Leadership
    • Board of Trustees
    • Financial Information
    • Privacy Policy
    • FAQ’s
    • Contact Us
  • Our Grantees
    • By Program Focus
    • By Location
    • By Organization
    • Alumni Grantees
    • In Their Words: The Pandemic
  • How to Help
    • COVID-19 – Good People Need Your Help
    • Donate Now
    • Acknowledgement Cards
    • Planned Giving
    • Charitable Solicitation Disclosure Statement
  • Learning
    • Our Educational Philosophy
    • For Jewish Educators
      • Our Good Service Model
      • Grab ‘n’ Go Lessons
      • GPF Core Curriculum
      • B’nai Mitzvah Service Projects
      • Archival Materials
      • Ziv Tzedakah Curriculum
    • For Students
      • Tips for Good Service Projects
      • Other Resources
  • Media
    • Newsroom
      • Grantees in the News
      • GPF in the News
      • Press Releases
    • Grantee Focus
    • Annual Reports
    • Podcasts
    • Videos
    • 10th Anniversary
  • Blog
    • Tzedakah Diaries