We watched Allen County's Kindness Movement SOAR to more than a million acts!
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!
Committing To Kindness
You joined us in embracing kindness and learned how to make a positive impact in our community!
Acting on Opportunity
You discovered creative and meaningful ways to spread kindness no matter where you were!
Paying it Forward
You inspired others by sharing your kindness journey and encouraging them to join the movement!
Reflecting & Sharing
You shared your stories of kindness with us to help inspire more acts of kindness in our community!
Every Act Counts!
Let's keep the kindness going! Continue spreading kindness in your everyday actions and inspiring others to do the same. Together, we can create a ripple effect of positivity and make a lasting impact on our community.
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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.
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 Made A Big Impact
The many volunteers of the Christ Child Society of Fort Wayne have completed 200+ acts of preparing and distributing new coats, hats and gloves, back packs with supplies, and bags of newborn baby items to children in our community! We are able to accomplish this through our community partners. Thank you for the opportunity to participate to the 2024 Kindness Challenge!
- Geri Boyden
Alive Community Outreach's "Wayne High School Peace Family" set up a lunch table to gather 200 Acts of Kindness among students and staff. Students and staff reported helping others with school work, helping family members at home with housework, and other various acts of kindness towards friends and strangers.
- Marie Mante
Alive Community Outreach's "Northside Peace Family" hosted a lunch time "Acts of Kindness" challenge which allowed students and staff to share their acts of kindness. A total of 256 Acts of Kindness was committed by staff and students including writing a thank you letter to a teacher, helping to clean a house, and giving someone a hug that needed emotional support.
- Marie Mante
Northrop's Peace Family hosted a Lunchtime activity that encouraged students to share recent acts of kindness. There were 389 total acts of kindness shared including students helping classmates with homework, generous giving to the poor and needy, being an emotional support to another student, volunteering for a non-profit organization, and other varieties of sharing kindness and goodwill.
- Marie Mante
While out for dinner, we paid for ice cream for a family. They did not know who the ice cream came from!
- Sarah Gore
We are proud to share that our co-workers have performed 200+ acts of kindness in honor of Allen County's 200th birthday!
- Parkview Health
Today the History Center performed its 200th act of kindness through the “200 Acts of Kindness” initiative.
- Todd Maxwell Pelfrey
Indiana Tech is doing a Random Acts of Kindness Bingo Challenge, encouraging Warriors to accumulate as many "bingos" as possible in an effort to do and spread kindness acts!
- Indiana Tech
I opened the door for people.
- Natalia
Becca brought in Crumbl Cookies to share with the office
- Becca
Baked bread for neighbor laid up because of accident
- Jeff Krull
This is to inform you that 89.1 WBOI completed 200 Acts of Kindness. We had fun doing this. Thanks for inviting us to participate.
- 89.1 WBOI
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