Giving back to the community means putting something you already have into the place you live: an hour, a skill, some money, or the use of a room. It does not require a spare weekend every week or a large income. It requires picking one thing and doing it more than once, because the value is almost entirely in the repetition.
The advice people usually get on this is either too vague to act on (“get involved!”) or pitched so high it is intimidating. What follows is neither. It is a ladder, from an hour you could spend this week to a fu