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Emerging Leaders Lead With Kindness

Learn more about the 2024 YLNI Bicentennial Kindness Challenge. 

Helping define Allen County, Indiana as the Kindest County in the Country!

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Allen County turned 200 in 2024! To celebrate, YLNI and the Allen County Commissioners launched the 2024 Kindness Challenge.

It was a county-wide initiative to spread kindness. Whether you participated individually or with a school, organization, or business, we achieved our goal of one million acts of kindness in 2024!

We watched Allen County's Kindness Movement SOAR to more than a million acts!

Total Acts in 2024
1,001,400
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Each and every act moved us closer to making Allen County the kindest county in the country. We inspired others, built momentum, and created a lasting bicentennial impact, one kind gesture at a time!

Allen County, Indiana schools, organizations, businesses, and community members were up for the challenge!

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Committing To Kindness

You joined us in embracing kindness and learned how to make a positive impact in our community!

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Acting on Opportunity

You discovered creative and meaningful ways to spread kindness no matter where you were!

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Paying it Forward

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

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Reflecting & Sharing

You shared your stories of kindness with us to help inspire more acts of kindness in our community!

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 Made A Big Impact

Zyon sat with a student struggling during writing and helped him stay on track.

- Forest Park Elementary

Lola was working on Lexia and said put loud This is hard but I can't give up! And encouraged the other students

- Forest Park Elementary

Elliott sat next to a friend struggling with their work and helped them stay focused.

- Forest Park Elementary

Elijah went out of his way to bring a chair to a student without being asked to.

- Forest Park Elementary

Bentley held the door for the Nurse.

- Forest Park Elementary

Paisley showed another student how to solve a math problem instead of just giving them the answer.

- Forest Park Elementary

Sophia shoed kindness by helping a new student know what to do

- Forest Park Elementary

Rissa was very kind during lunch by opening another students milk

- Forest Park Elementary

Aries worked really hard in reading group and helped classmates

- Forest Park Elementary

Kassidy working really hard in reading group and helped other classmates

- Forest Park Elementary

Oliver and his partner has to wait a long time during Cougar time to get their cards and they showed a lot of patience

- Forest Park Elementary

Javier and his partner had to wait a long time to get their cards during Cougar time and they showed a lot of patience

- Forest Park Elementary

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