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 helped a man with Down Syndrome with his meal and cleaning up after he finished eating.
- Candace Delanoy
I made a meal for another family that has a new baby.
- Candace Delanoy
I assisted a woman with special needs with her self-care. She is not able to take care of some of her daily needs and I came along side to make sure she had those needs met.
- Candace Delanoy
Cash made a card for a staff member reducing their role at CASS and had the other Core Members sign it. The Core Members took turns sharing what they appreciate about the staff member.
- Cash/CASS Academy Core Members
Tina included a thoughtful note of appreciation with her rent check, the note being for the CASS staff, their care, love, and support. Check your email for the image of Tina's note.
- Tina Mills
Cash volunteered at the CASS Gala. After his responsibilities were complete, he came to CASS staff to see what else he could do to help.
- Cash
I let someone go ahead of me
- Jami Thomas
AS I was walking the dog today, I found a brand new pack of 10mm bullets. I do not use guns, so I walked them to my neighbors and gave the package to them. They were really excited.
- Leslee
Danaiya and Nakaiya assisted in a heated verbal altercation. They heard a commotion and walked the upset student to the office to avoid a fight and calm her down.
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Our school has a RAK (Random Acts of Kindness Club). Members consist of 2nd and 3rd graders. They meet twice a month after school during October, November and December. This is an ongoing club so students coming up from the younger grades might aspire to be in the club when they reach this grade and start their Acts of Kindness even earlier. The club will do things like make inspiring messages and hang them up around the school. They have painted rocks and put them around outside for people to find and share to brighten someone's day.
- Shambaugh Elementary
Braunson comes to the HUB every day after C lunch to retrieve our lunch trays. He has never been asked to do this, he just does it and expects nothing in return. He always hugs Ms. T, the teacher, first and asks her how her day is. While she does occasionally give him snacks for his kindness, she feels he deserves recognition for his random acts of kindness daily.
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A client at NIIC was sitting outside of their office. I assumed they were working on something solo. When I passed back by, the client said, "we forgot our key, but our coworker will be here in 10 minutes. I'm sorry we're in the way in the hall." I don't think they knew i worked there, because everyone thinks everyone in our building are other small businesses. I said, "Did you know that the Concierge has a key that can let you in?" Her face lit up and said, "Oh, thank you!"
- Rhonda Ladig
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