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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

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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