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!
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?
Commit To Kindness
Join us in embracing kindness and learn how you can make a positive impact in our community!
Act on Opportunity
Discover creative and meaningful ways to spread kindness no matter where you are!
Pay it Forward
Inspire others by sharing your kindness journey and encouraging kindness journey and encouraging them to join the movement!
Reflect & Share
Share your story of kindness with us or on Facebook to help inspire more acts of kindness in our community!
Kindness Initiative Types
Choosing a Kindness Initiative Type defines the focus of your 200 Acts of Kindness. By choosing a specific type, you can create a cohesive theme for your 200 acts, making it easier to track and celebrate your contributions.
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Acts of Generosity Buy a coffee for someone, donate to a shelter, pay for someone's dinner, and leave a surprise gift card.
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Positive Communication & Encouragement Compliment someone, send a positive message, write a LinkedIn recommendation, post uplifting notes, or send a gratitude email.
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Community & Environmental Care Organize a park cleanup, return shopping carts, pick up litter, leave unused coupons, plant a tree or flowers for someone.
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Appreciation & Recoginition Compliment well-behaved children, write a gratitude list, tell a manager about excellent service, and leave a big tip for a server.
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Thoughtful Surprises & Gifts Bake treats for neighbors, leave gifts for delivery drivers or mail carriers, surprise someone with a plant, give someone a box of positive messages.
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Volunteering & Helping Others Babysit for free, run errands for someone, volunteer at a nonprofit, offer to help a busy family member, mentor a young person.
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.
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!
See How Small Acts Are Making A Big Impact
I held the door for another customer at the gas station.
- Lois E Ehinger
Gave a homeless person an opportunity to shop for clothing in Wellspring's Shoppe on a day when the building was closed.
- Ermina Mustedanagic
I made a nice note to the fourth floor staff this morning.
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Today, my student Kevin Pittman, junior, walked in and immediately took all the chairs off the desks in my classroom. I did not ask him to, and this is not a task assigned to anyone; he just did it out of the kindness of his heart. :green_heart:
- Marianne Deitche
Volunteering at Fort Wayne Civic Theatre
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Shared her cheese with a friendly dog
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Helped Erin's grandparents with their list of technology issues
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Helped my parents with their list of technology issues
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Pitching in to provide an amazing Block Party during "Be a Tourist"
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Helped someone who was struggling to use a parking meter
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Sent cards to college kids away from home for the first time
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Collected diaper and wipe donations for Healthier Moms and Babies Diaper Drive
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Interested in learning more about YLNI? Reach out to us today!