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Celebrate Allen County’s 200th Anniversary by joining the Million Acts of Kindness Challenge and Make a Lasting Impact!

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Emerging Leaders Lead With Kindness

Learn more about the YLNI Bicentennial Kindness Challenge. Help define Allen County, Indiana as the Kindest County in the Country!

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Allen County is turning 200 in 2024! To celebrate, YLNI and the Allen County Commissioners are launching the 2024 Kindness Challenge.

It's a county-wide initiative to spread kindness. Whether you participate individually or with a school, organization, or business, our goal is to complete one million acts of kindness by December 31, 2024.

Every Act Counts! Report Your Totals!

Step 1

Choose Your Kindness Initiative Type

Choose a focus for your 200 Acts of Kindness and brainstorm ideas with your team, family, or friends. Consider helping a neighbor, volunteering, or organizing a small event. For inspiration, check out our Kindness Initiative Types!

Step 2

Report Your Acts

Once you’ve completed 200 acts (or more!), submit your contributions using our form to help build a kinder community—every effort makes a difference!

Total Acts
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Watch Allen County's Kindness Movement Grow! Every act brings us closer to making Allen County the kindest county in the country. Let’s inspire others, build momentum, and create a lasting bicentennial impact, one kind gesture at a time!

Are you up for the challenge?

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Commit To Kindness

Join us in embracing kindness and learn how you can make a positive impact in our community!

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Act on Opportunity

Discover creative and meaningful ways to spread kindness no matter where you are!

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Pay it Forward

Inspire others by sharing your kindness journey and encouraging kindness journey and encouraging them to join the movement!

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Reflect & Share

Share your story of kindness with us or on Facebook to help inspire more acts of kindness in our community!

Send Us Your Acts Of Kindness!

Start by selecting a Kindness Initiative Type that resonates with you, then complete your 200 acts within that category. Once finished, submit one form to record all your contributions.

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A huge thank you to these Allen County schools, organizations, and businesses for taking on the challenge and completing 200 acts of kindness—check them out!
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See How Small Acts Are Making A Big Impact

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Alive Community Outreach's "Northside Peace Family" hosted a lunch time "Acts of Kindness" challenge which allowed students and staff to share their acts of kindness. A total of 256 Acts of Kindness was committed by staff and students including writing a thank you letter to a teacher, helping to clean a house, and giving someone a hug that needed emotional support.

- Marie Mante

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Northrop's Peace Family hosted a Lunchtime activity that encouraged students to share recent acts of kindness. There were 389 total acts of kindness shared including students helping classmates with homework, generous giving to the poor and needy, being an emotional support to another student, volunteering for a non-profit organization, and other varieties of sharing kindness and goodwill.

- Marie Mante

We are proud to share that our co-workers have performed 200+ acts of kindness in honor of Allen County's 200th birthday!

- Parkview Health

Today the History Center performed its 200th act of kindness through the “200 Acts of Kindness” initiative.

- Todd Maxwell Pelfrey

Indiana Tech is doing a Random Acts of Kindness Bingo Challenge, encouraging Warriors to accumulate as many "bingos" as possible in an effort to do and spread kindness acts!

- Indiana Tech

I opened the door for people.

- Natalia

Becca brought in Crumbl Cookies to share with the office

- Becca

Baked bread for neighbor laid up because of accident

- Jeff Krull

This is to inform you that 89.1 WBOI completed 200 Acts of Kindness. We had fun doing this. Thanks for inviting us to participate.

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Our Amp Lab students took time out to draw words of encouragement and inspirational pictures of kindness around the building . If you get a chance to stop in , please take a time out to read all the inspirational quotes and drawings from our AMAZING students here at the Amp Lab!

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I am pleased to share that in just 15 days, the GFW Inc staff was able to amass 228 Acts of Kindness! We are thrilled to partner with YLNI for this wonderful opportunity to come together as a community in celebration of the Bicentennial!

- GFW

The St Vincent de Paul Conference of St Elizabeth Ann Seton Church asked parishioners to share their acts of kindness on our office window display of Post-it notes. We collected over 200 notes!

- St Vincent de Paul Conference

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