The two busiest men in the State of Ohio connected with me over the past two days, Governor John Kasich and State School Superintendent Stan Heffner. Both responded to my email about the Chardon, Ohio school shooting, about One Million Acts Of Kindness and my passion for changing the mindset of students in this country by having an individual goal of kindness. I have a scheduled phone conference next Tuesday. This is huge! This is incredible! This is only the beginning!
When children take lives at school, winds of change need to howl through the educational system in our country.
Being one of the few people, perhaps the only person who has all 50 states’ plus DC’s PTA phone numbers in my phone, all 50 states plus DC’s Department of Education email contacts and US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and staff email addresses in my computer it is time to convince all 50 states that having a goal of kindness, can change kids.
Speaking of winds, gusts of 50 mph had their way with The Kindness Bicycle today. I called it a day before noon and started calls to state PTA’s across the country.
Sylvia, a local 6th grade teacher stopped by, while I was in The Kindness Bus, to learn about what she could do for her class and perhaps her entire school to embrace One Million Acts Of Kindness. Thank you, Sylvia, not just for your attention, but also for the comforters, The Kindness Bus is quite a bit more comfortable today.
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.