| Category I. Providing material resources |
| 1. Making, collecting, and distributing supplies | Children sought to fill urgent needs for PPE and basic supplies such as clothing, toiletries, and educational materials. | Children used 3-D printers to print personal protective equipment; sewed masks; assembled care packages; collected and donated supplies to those in need such as people experiencing homelessness and low-income families. | 35 |
| 2. Raising and donating money | Children gave away their savings and raised money to support various causes and people during the pandemic. | Children sold items they had created, raffled off goods, set out money collection bins, and set up online crowdfunding campaigns to raise money for donations to healthcare providers, schools, and low-income families. | 22 |
| 3. Cooking or distributing food | Children recognized and worked to address immediate needs and solve systemic issues related to hunger and food access. | Children organized food drives, gathered donated food items, prepared food packages, and donated money to food pantries; delivered food to vulnerable older adults; and founded organizations to fight hunger and poverty. | 17 |
| Category II. Mobilizing to advance well-being |
| 4. Creating art | Children used art to spread beauty, joy, inspiration, and hope; share messages of gratitude; and support others in expressing emotions and processing pandemic-related disruptions and losses. | Children colored, sketched, painted, knitted, crocheted, wrote stories and books, acted, sang, danced, and engaged in many other forms of creative expression as they sought to help frontline workers, medical personnel, older adults, and others suffering from the pandemic. | 44 |
| 5. Offering social and emotional support | Children worked in formal and informal ways to help others process emotions, reduce social isolation, close gaps in social services, and assist with needs and responsibilities at home. | Children offered support to their peers via talk and text; founded organizations and used social media to advance causes that mattered to them; provided comfort, encouragement, and connection to older adults; showed gratitude to frontline workers; volunteered and took on extra responsibilities at home and in their communities; and translated materials to other languages for adults and youth with limited English proficiency. | 41 |
| 6. Providing tutoring or developing other educational services | Children sought to address learning gaps that were revealed, exacerbated, or created when schools closed and instruction went online; reduce social isolation, stave off boredom, and avert negative learning habits; and educate others about historical and social issues that came to the fore during the pandemic. | Children created or expanded existing tutoring services for underserved schools; developed new academic curriculum in interactive formats for young children; offered classes to address emergent needs among low-income students; and engaged in storytelling activities. | 21 |
| 7. Participating in public health campaigns or vaccination efforts | Children took recommended protective actions during the pandemic to protect themselves and others, especially those most at risk of illness or death; they also encouraged and educated others to do the same. | Children advanced public health campaigns through sharing key messages, participating in vaccine trials for children, getting vaccinated, and encouraging other children and adults to get the vaccine. | 9 |
| 8. Conducting or taking part in research | Children took part in research to inform interventions to ameliorate inequalities or improve health outcomes. | Children designed youth-led research projects, agreed to be participants in adult-led research studies, and sought to publicly share results that could make a tangible impact on public health or social justice. | 6 |