$0 – $25
It's amazing what a few dollars can do. These ideas won't weigh on your wallet, but will make a huge difference for someone else.

• Anonymously pay for gas for strangers
• Buy lunch for a homeless person
• Randomly give away a prepaid transit card for a couple of trips on a bus or train
• Volunteer—it costs nothing but means a lot.
• Buy flowers to cheer up a co-worker
• Write letters to troops serving in Iraq
• Clean up a neighborhood park
• Buy a board game for a local children's hospital

$100 – $200
Have a little more to spend? There are a lot of ways to change the world.

• Invite women living in a shelter to a spa day or treat them to a makeover
• Buy school supplies for a needy school
• Buy coats and hand them out to the homeless
• Buy pet food and supplies for the animals at the pound
• Search your local newspaper for stories about people in need and find a way to help them
• Pick up the tab for a family at a restaurant
• Buy theater tickets for parents with a newborn—then babysit!
• Buy food and prepare meals for the elderly in your neighborhood

$1,000 & over
Thinking big? You've seen what $1,000 can do—now it's your turn.

• Buy instruments for a needy school's music class
• Travel to New Orleans and go help build a Habitat home
• Pay for a string quartet to give a concert at a local nursing home
• Donate iPods for soldiers serving in Iraq
• Take a terminally sick friend on a weekend getaway
• Buy a new wardrobe for kids in need
• Help rebuild a home destroyed by a fire
• Make a family's holidays a little brighter by buying all their holiday gifts