Every little bit helps, or so the saying goes. This is especially true when it comes to supporting those whose lives were forever changed by the Aurora theater shootings July 20.

Whether it’s buying a $1 cup of lemonade from the stand three little girls had set up in Denver’s Hilltop neighborhood Saturday afternoon or responding to a call for size-5 boys underwear that appears on the Aurora Theater Shooting page on Facebook, opportunities abound for good-hearted, but cash-strapped, Coloradans wanting to help out.

Here are some suggestions:

• Eat lunch or dinner Sunday at the Royal Hilltop Taproom, 18581 E. Hampden Ave., Aurora, and 10 percent of your tab will be given to the widow and family of Alex Sullivan, one of the 12 who died in the July 20 massacre. Wait staff will be donating all of their tips too, and a raffle will be conducted. “We are located next door to the Movie Tavern where Alex worked for many years,” says Kelli Cover, one of the restaurant’s managers. “He was a friend and neighbor to us, our customers and our community.”

• The Denver Film Society has designated Monday as a Day of Giving and invites film buffs and others to make $5 contributions to the Aurora Victim Relief Fund by texting DFS to 50555 on Monday. Donors will also be able to provide a personal message to survivors with their donation. The DFS is spreading the word via social media and at the Film on the Rocks show that night at Red Rocks Amphitheater.

• Make something and sell it, as Littleton resident Mary Lou Hower and a group of her friends did. “We made 50 aprons and sold all but nine of them from a table set up outside the King Soopers store at Quebec and County Line Road late last week,” Hower says. “Not everyone who approached us wanted an apron, so they gave us donations. We made about $1,000 for victim relief.”

• Volunteer your services. Also on the Aurora Theater Shooting Facebook page is a request for a chiropractor or therapist who can help a survivor find relief from the sciatica that was exacerbated after he was trampled while trying to escape the theater. The pain is keeping him from his work.

• Send encouraging messages to survivors and their loved ones. The family of Ashley Moser, who lost her 6-year-old daughter, Veronica Moser-Sullivan, and was herself seriously wounded, reports that Ashley finds strength in the words left on the Ashly Moser and Veronica Moser-Sullivan Fund Page on Facebook. (“Ashly” is the way it is spelled on the site, even though “Ashley” is correct.)

Joanne Davidson: 303-809-1314, jdavidson@denverpost.com or twitter.com/getitwrite