How many acts of kindness do you think you can do in one day?
Four weeks from tomorrow is one of my favorite days of the year. One Million Acts of Kindness Day!! This event always takes place on April 27th. This incredible event challenges you to do as many acts of kindness as you possibly can during the course of the day. Have fun being kind on this day.
Brycen still recalls our kindness program from three years ago when he was in fifth grade. What a cool kid he is. He was voted the kindest student in his grade at his middle school this year. He also told me that the president of his class started a kindness initiative. Things are catching on.
The Boys and Girls Club of Collier County extended hospitality to us to talk to their young men and women and to thank them for their kind actions in their local community. Thank you to the students and volunteers including Kelly Capolino for arranging the visit.
Seven years ago I visited dozens of Children’s Advocacy Centers across the nation on my cross-country ride from New York to California. This trip to the Children’s Advocacy Center in Naples was quite a bit shorter, a mere five miles.
Thank you to Caroline who came over to heap praise on the Ring Our Country with Kindness tour. She has two special needs children and loved the awareness we are raising across the United States. Being the loving mother she is, she knows she needs to stand by them every step of the way.
Dozens of special needs sailors competed in a regatta at Sugden Park in Naples, Florida this past Saturday. May all of you have fair winds and following seas the rest of your sailing days. #DownSyndrome #Autism #ADNPKids #Bipolar #Aspergers #CerebralPalsy #Addictions #Depression #Bullying #ADHD #Kindness #BostonTerrier #KindnessBus #KindnessBicycle #RingOurCountryWithKindness #OneMillionActsOfKindness
Thank you to this great looking group of volunteers of Habitat for Humanity in Collier County for letting me share some stories with them. Their special needs do not stop them from being volunteers. They are an example of what, compassion for others, is to all of us. Thank you Mandy, Christopher, Ernest and Miss Rita (who took this picture)
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.
Mail donations to:
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.
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