Action Guides
- Are you biased in any way? Find out by taking the Harvard Implicit Bias test
- Start a blog to highlight the benefits of diversity.
- Start a Gay/Straight Alliance at your school
- Create a chart in your school of how many people are infected everyday by HIV/AIDS.
- Start a Do Something Club at your school
- Sign a petition advocating gay marriage
- Endorse charities to support HIV/AIDS
- Endorse charities like Keep a Child Alive to support HIV/AIDS education for teens.
- Take a survey of your school
- Conduct a voter registration drive
- Shop and donate to Do Something automatically!
- Write a play about equality and perform it at your school
- Participate in the Facing AIDS campaign
- Arrange to bring a speaker in to discuss HIV & sexuality.
- Start a blog or video blog about your cause
- Organize a Benefit Concert for your cause
- Organize an Art Show to support your cause
- Have a debate on whether gay marriage should or shouldn’t be legalized.
- How to start a gay-straight alliance at your school
- Support World Vision
- Film a documentary about how gays are treated in your community.
- Wear a button on your jacket or bag to publicize your cause
- Organize a letter writing campaign
- Take a survey of your church
- For Black History Month, learn about an influential inventor, politician or social activist, then spread your knowledge.
- Organize an awareness campaign about the history of discrimination in the U.S. and how it remains a reality for many.
- Wear a button to protest violence against homosexuals.
- Discuss with your friends all ways you can get an STD
- Create a statistics chart of how many people are infected with HIV/AIDS everyday in Africa.
- Hold a Unity Rally at your school.
- 11 ways to Do Something (good) on Halloween
- Sign up for text messages about volunteer opportunities
- 10 ways to support gay rights
- Start a petition in support of gay marriage.
- Poll the students at your school
- Start an awareness campaign about your cause at your school or in your neighborhood
Easy Ideas
- Play a video game that gives back: head to www.gamesthatgive.net
- Join or start LGBT or Gay/Straight Alliance at your school
- Volunteer at your local homeless shelter once a week for a few hours.
- Take part in a discussion about homosexuality and experiences with coming out
- Talk to your teachers about offensive speech and encourage them to stop it when they hear it
- When you donate to an organization, find out where the money goes and make sure the organization supports your values.
- Educate yourself about HIV/AIDS and other STDs, then spread the knowledge.
- If an insensitive joke isn't funny, let people know
- Go to the Gay Pride Parade in your area.
- Stand up against stigma, racism and other forms of discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS
- Don't call things that are boring or dumb, "gay"
- Talk to your principal about updating your school's discrimination policy to cover gender and sexuality if it doesn't already
- Spark a discussion in class about how homosexuality is portrayed in the media
- Check out SocialVibe.com/DoSomething and spread the word about your fave cause!