Here are some ways you could be of service to others during this shared time of crisis: 

• Sew cloth face masks to donate to your friends and neighbors.
• Track down N95 face masks and deliver them to local hospitals.
• Check in with neighbors who are living alone — even if you don’t know them well! — to see how they’re doing and if they need any help.
• Organize a Teddy Bear Hunt (click link for details) for local children. 
• Call or write your elected representatives in Congress and urge them to speed up stimulus payments to the most-needy. 
• Order a take-out or delivery meal from one of your favorite local restaurants to help them stay in business.
• Buy a gift card, for future use, from one of your favorite local shops.
• Teach a senior citizen or a person suffering from loneliness how to use video chat (e.g., FaceTime, Alexa, Zoom, or Skype video).
• If you have an RV (recreational vehicle), lend it to a medical professional who fears sleeping at home because he or she might expose their family to the virus.
• Donate blood. The need is high, and blood donation centers are open throughout the country, practicing safe distancing and sanitized donation practices.

Also, see some excellent suggestions (including non-profits that need donations) from The Washington Post here. Have other suggestions? Please share them here!  (Reader suggestions so far have included teaching the non-tech-savvy how to order groceries online and how to pay bills online…)