2.14 Service Project

Which service project furthers the public good?

• helping one’s grandparents after school

• making a profit by starting a website design business

• participating in a telephone drive to collect money for a church, synagogue or mosque

• organizing a weekend program for student volunteers to pick up litter from local roads and parks

Matt plans to conduct a service project to further the public good. Which project would achieve this objective?

• organize his family’s old photos into a new digital photo album

• take his family dog on long walks in the local park on weekends

• visit the local veteran’s hospital once a week to read aloud to elderly veterans

• write a series of funny letters to the local newspaper illustrating how teenagers use social media

Which service project furthers the public good?

• converting unused garage space at home into a personal recreation room

• developing a new mobile phone app to sell on the Internet

• distributing food to the needy at a local food bank

• cutting down trees to build a private parking lot