Suggestions for Eagle Projects

The following project ideas MAY BE acceptable as Eagle projects depending on how they are ORGANIZED and the LEADERSHIP is presented This is not a comprehensive list! It is just a place to start. Let your mind go and imagine what could be done.

• Collect winter clothes/coats for a distribution center.
• Collect children's clothes for a distribution center.
• Conduct an orienteering/ski/soccer/baseball/basketball clinic for inner city/local youth.
• Identify heritage trees in St. Paul and publish a booklet about them.
• Build a boat ramp at a local lake.
• Conduct a drive to completely clothe and furnish a house for a previously homeless grandmother and 4 young grandchildren.
• Lead a group of high achieving students as tutors for low performing students or those with learning disabilities.
• Lead effort to scrape, patch and paint large room / multiple hallways at a church, community center, non-profit organization building.
• Lead effort to collect toys for youth affected by flood.
• Clean up trash/debris and build paths/benches/landscaping within a park/around a lake/in a shallow pond/along a road
• Collect, properly retire and dispose of non-serviceable American flags.
• Organize a CPR training course, advertise, sign-up, arrange location, etc.
• Install smoke detectors for older needs people, raise funds to purchase detectors/secure funds from municipality.
• Install entrance sign at a part/church/non-profit location with suitable ground effects.
• Create and organize a Youth volunteer Action Project in multiple High Schools/Jr. High Schools to carry out volunteer projects.
• Organize, prepare beds and plant flowers/trees for park/community center/church.
• Build a retaining wall/patio area/outdoor furniture/indoor furniture for church/community/etc.
• Conduct an eyeglass drive, glasses to be distributed in a third world country.
• Clean up a walking trail/path and put down wood chips.
• Build steps on a walking trail.
• Build a portion of a walking trail/entire walking trail.
• Plant trees in a park/open space.
• Paint church/community building.
• Paint house numbers on garages and rear entrances of homes for compliance with city ordinances.
• Clear overhanging bushes and tree limbs from walking path/roadway in park/trail.
• Construct shelving for church/school/community center/park building for storage.
• Refinish tables/chairs/shelving for church/school/community center/park building.
• Clean, repair, fill cracks, seal coat a parking lot at a church/school/community center parking lot.  Repaint parking lot stripes.
• Conduct a Bicycle Rodeo to promote bicycle safety and teach proper techniques to use in hazardous situations.
• Provide a fingerprinting service for primary grade school children and give the results to the parents.
• Conduct a child protection awareness campaign for the community, create forms for recording children's' identification information, enter on floppy disks and give to parents for their records.
• Build physical therapy equipment for a children's' hospital.
• Clean up, repair gravestones and restore graveyard.
• Write & publish the history of a community and provide teaching materials to 5 elementary schools.
• Conduct seat belt survey and stage accident prior to prom at a high school.
• Install a computer network at a high school.
• Build a handicapped ramp at a church.
• Create fire plans for 8 community churches.
• Clean and refurbish historical artifacts at a museum.
• Inventory and set up a database of items at a museum.
• Plan, conduct and clean up for a party for residents of a nursing home.
• Present a "Pet Fair" with information on health and general care of household pets and information on regulations and ordinances such as leash laws.
• Build a small structure/shed/garage.
• Repair/move walls/install ceilings/install flooring for an existing building.
• Organize and conduct a community event.  Clean up afterwards.
• Organize a "Neighborhood Watch". See it successfully through 6 months of meetings.
• Organize and lead a seasons (half season) lawn care for an elderly, needy person.
• Organize and lead a house painting for an elderly, needy person.
• Determine the need for specific information/documents, have it translated into Hmong/Spanish/Vietnamese and distribute it to the appropriate people.
• Design and train a team to paint a mural on the wall of a local church
• Build an archery range at a local park.

Remember to look at the needs of an organization to find the possible Eagle project.
Note: Not all good projects are good EAGLE Projects. It is really dependent on the DEPTH OF PLANNING, ORGANIZATION AND LEADERSHIP required.