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• Host an I CARE House Café (once a month dinners served at the House where kids can take their parents to "sit down" dinnner for $1 per person) -organizations can prepare or purchase catering for the dinner, individuals can be servers or decorators
• Help organize holiday parties for kids
• Help organize a penny carnival, block party, weekly hot dog roast
• Help organize annual I CARE House Awards Program each Febraury
• Prepare one substantive snack each week for kids
• Lead special interest clubs for kids
• Be a Homework Coach
• Listen to a child read
• Teach kids how to play the piano (we have an electronic keyboard)
• Be a chaperone on a field trip with the kids
• Organize/sponsor a field trip for kids (bowling, skating, swimming, etc)
• Offer a special interest club for senior citizens or other adults
• Do a travel log presentaiton about somewhere you've gone for the seniors who come for lunch
• Donate printing and/or postage for flyers, newsletters, and other information
• Data entry of member information into database
• Send out reminder notices/phone calls to members
• Provide legal, accounting, or other professional service
• Distribute newsletter around town
• Teach senior citizens computer skills
• Use your green thumb in the I CARE Garden
• Help mow our lawn (we have mowers)
• Be our "Mr. or Ms. Fix-It" when something breaks
• Get items for the kids' "I CARE House store" (rewards store
• Organize fundraisers
• Organize various clothing drives at certain times of the year
• Organize other supply drives as need (back-to-school, backpacks, hygiene items, etc.)
• Make a commitment to roll up your sleeves and serve on the I CARE House board of directors

• Popsicle Sticks
• Sewing machine
• Sewing accessories (needles, pins, material, etc.)
• Knitting and crocheting needles
• Yarn
• Puffy Paint
• Acrylic paint
• Paint brushes
• Water color paper
• Sketch books
• Stickers
• Pipe Cleaners
• Tube Socks
• Art smocks
• Beads/Buttons
• Lace/ribbons
• Stencils
• Markers
• Glue (Elmer's, rubber cement, glue sticks, etc.)
• Tape (Duct, ivisible, double sided, masking, etc.)
• Hot glue guns and glue
• Sidewalk chalk
• Construction paper
• Foam letters and humbers
• Oragami paper
• Felt
• Coloring books
• Glitter
• Scrapbooks and scrapbooking supplies
• Reams of copying paper

• Healthy snacks for summer and after-school programs
• Small prizes for following rules, effort, good grades
• Lined paper, copying paper
• Pens, pencils, colored pencils, charcoal pencils
• Blue file folders (to keep the kids records in)
• Expendable workbooks and worksheets for juior high and high school math, science, or games (all grade levels)
• Ink cartridges for various HP printers
• Pentium 4 or higher computers
• Sponsor a college tour for grade 8-9 students so they can begin to consider future options
• Provide a scholarship for a high school student who comes to the House and makes improvements academically

• 3 Playground balls
• 4 sets of badmitten racquets
• 2 volleyballs
• Slip and Slide
• T-shirts for kids to wear on field trips
• Passes to the swimming pool
• Video rental cards for Watermelon Wednesday movie night
• Watermelon for Watermelon Wednesday
• Sponsor a field trip for the kids
• Pavilion equipped with water and electric in the Garden
• Playground equipment
• Asphalt pad in the play area for Four-Square, basketball, etc.
• Gas cards for field trips
• Provide a weeklong scholarship for a child ($50/week/child) to attend SummerSUCCESS program

• Photographs of downtown New Castle in 30s/40s/50s when business was booming
• Hand power tools (circular saw, drill, etc)
• Misc. hand tools (hammer, screwdriver, wrench, pliers, wire cutters, etc.)
• Work bench
• Gas powered weed eaters
• Metal wheelbarrow with balloon tires
• Hedge trimmer
• Mulch
• Shrubs, vegetable plants, flowers
• Water access in the garden
• Large storage shed for yard and garden equipment
• Photocopier
• 12-15 passenger van
• Someone to hook up our washer and dryer (need electrical box moved closer to the machines)

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