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
What the Community Foundation does every single day would qualify as an act of kindness in our community.
- Alison Gerardot
Stopped to help an older lady use the parking meter today.
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I went to Dollar Tree. The guest who got to the door before I did asked me how I was and held the door for me!
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Mary, one of the South Side employees, went out for lunch. Someone's trunk was open, and she closed it so nothing would be stolen.
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Sent a kind text to a friend that I haven't had contact with in over a year.
- Candace Delanoy
I agreed to go to a concert I had already been to so a girl would have someone to go with her.
- Candace D Delanoy
I followed up with a lady at my church to find out how her daughter was doing after a car accident earlier this year.
- Candace Delanoy
I started a conversation with an elderly man standing in the parking lot.
- Candace Delanoy
I sent an encouraging text to someone who just found out that her brother was experiencing some health complications.
- Candace Delanoy
I drove an older man to several furniture stores to pick out a recliner and then used my van to deliver the furniture to his home.
- Candace Delanoy
I offered to take a picture of a family at park area so they could all be in the photo.
- Candace Delanoy
I prepared a meal for a young family who has a new baby.
- Candace Delanoy
Interested in learning more about YLNI? Reach out to us today!