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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

Let someone go in front of you in line

- Ronda Walters

Act of Kindness

Washington Center Elementary School made 200 notes on Acts of Kindness witnessed by students and staff. One extremely special Act of Kindness that is currently taking place lead by 5th grade: we are having a Spirit Week Fundraiser benefiting victims of Hurricane Helene.

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Donate old towels or blankets to an animal shelter

- Ronda Walters

Try to make sure every person in a group feels included.

- Dale

Complimented the first three people I talked to today

- Dale

return shopping carts for others

- Roger

Send a gratitude email to a co-worker

- Roger

Encounter someone in customer service that is especially kind? Talked to the manager to let them know

- Roger

Let someone in front of you in line who only has a few items

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Say Hi to the person next to you on the elevator

- Roger

TELL YOURSELF SOMETHING POSITIVE WHEN YOU HEAR THE NEGATIVE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD

- ROSHANDA ARMSTRONG

SEND A GRATITUDE EMALI TO A CO-WORKER WHO DESERVES MORE RECOGNITION

- ROSHANDA ARMSTRONG

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