Smith offers the following items in random order and encourages others to consider them food for thought. Free and Low-Cost Activities to Stimulate Community Development Donate used magazines, books, etc., to neighborhood centers. Sponsor free seminars on meeting facilitation for nonprofit and neighborhood organizations. Provide facilitators for nonprofit and neighborhood meetings. Sponsor a sidewalk chalk art contest.
Bounce classes around to different locations in the community.
Publicize video-conferences that the school is downlinking. Offer clinics where people bring things to be repaired or maintained, train volunteers to fix things. Offer classes on conflict resolution and mediation. Train student mediators. Sponsor a volunteer mediation corps.