Being back in Cleveland, Ohio, to pick up Bogart so he can rejoin The Kindness Bus Tour, I just could not come to my former home town and not visit with those who work to help those in need in this town. I am so glad I did.
Tim Boehlein was my contact person and he and I had arranged for our meeting in advance. CEO, Linda Dooley Johanek took time out of her busy workload to spend time with us before our meeting. Tim is highly passionate about his work in this field and has spent over 20 years working in various capacities. He is currently working in education, visiting middle schools and high schools talking with students about safe dating. Tim and I talked in detail about The Tina Project, www.thetinaproject.org The parents of Tina Croucher were instrumental in getting House Bill 19 passed in the Ohio legislature. This bill mandates that school districts must include dating violence prevention education in health curriculum in grades 7 through 12. This program has begun in northeast Ohio and will be statewide in the near future. Tim knows that having a program like this will go a very long way in educating those who are reaching dating age. It is bound to have a huge impact.
Please help us spread our message of a Goal of Kindness to schoolchildren across the country. Your donations are crucial to making this a reality.
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One Million Acts Of Kindness
PO Box 770054
Lakewood, OH 44107
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Bogart is my travel companion on The Kindness Bus Tour for the next ten years. We will be on the road traveling to campuses across the country. Bogart is a eight year old Boston Terrier. He is a great people dog... he loves meeting new people. I am Bogart's fourth owner in his short 8 years of life... Not because of him but because his three previous owner's lifestyles changed after they took him in... Lucky for me!! Bogart is the luckiest, most spoiled dog on the face of the earth. He loves the bus and he loves to travel. Please come and visit him when we are on your campus.
The Blue Bird Corporation donated this amazing bus to One Million Acts of Kindness, allowing us the continue this initiative. It has been painted to closely resemble the original Kindness Bus. It will last well beyond the ten years of this mission. A very big thank you to Blue Bird from Bob Votruba and Bogart too!!
The original Kindness bus has been donated to a professor at Virginia Tech who will use it on campus and at schools in the Blacksburg area. The Kindness Bus will continue to inspire and comfort residents, students and visitors in that area for years to come.
One Million Acts Of Kindness is a goal. A goal for each person to individually perform One Million Acts Of Kindness in their life. Can you imagine a greater goal for one's life? It is a constant mind-set of kindness every day of your life for the next fifty-five years. Doing for others and kindness in your heart for everyone. It is my wish that you will dedicate your life to a charity... finding the passion in your heart for something or someone in need.
As a father of three college age kids I am concerned for the world in which all kids will live. A great way to create a safer, more caring world is for everyone to start their lifetime goal of One Million Acts Of Kindness. So I bought a bus, had about sixty family members, friends and neighbors help paint it and began a ten year journey with my Boston Terrier, Bogart, to college campuses across the country hoping to convince as many of you as possible about this much needed movement for this world. I love you guys too much to sit back and not do anything about this. Let's start a kindness movement in this country today to change the direction this world is headed!! You are the change that this world needs.