When you receive a note like this, you realize all the work of promoting Collier County Kindness Awareness Week is well worth the time spent:
“Today you came to my school and showed us your program, poem, and Bogart. I am the little 5th grader girl who said Thank you and you’ve inspired me to do more. I have been doing 50 acts of kindness a day.”
650 students from Gulf Coast Charter Academy South in Naples, Florida wrote letters to first responders and seniors as wonderful acts of kindness. We visited their campus today and did several kindness programs out and around the Kindness Bus. It was huge fun for everyone. Thank you to everyone who played a part in making today’s visit a great success.
The children’s group at Naples United Church of Christ was so appreciative of Bogart coming to visit them today. They kept me on my toes with all the wonderful questions and interest in the importance of kindness. Thank you to everyone for making this a very memorable visit during Collier County Kindness Awareness Week.
Thank you to Kelly Capolino, all the volunteers, and the 13 young men of the Boys and Girls Club of Collier County for the wonderful Acts of kindness during this Collier County Kindness Awareness Week.
This week the young men of JMOI The Junior Men of Initiative mentoring program at the Boys & Girls club of Collier county have committed to a Plan of 13 individual Acts of Kindness, a thank you note and a random gift.
13 young boys have committed to be kind.
Here is what each young man committed to:
Gardy
Help people at school that need help with something I can help with
Marcel
Help someone this week who does not expect it.
Nic
To give compliments people don’t expect and help them.
Erven
Help others with their homework
Christopher
Help a person that may need my help
Brandon
Open door for someone
Rowinsky
Be respectful to those I see like opening the door
Luck
Let someone in before me through the door
Michael
Help someone when they get their books knocked out of their hands
Gigi
Help someone with homework
Felix
Help someone with homework
Jalen
Help someone with groceries at the store
Noel
Stop people who are bullying
Group project
Each of the 13 young boys will hand a Thank you or Have a great day note or card to a teacher or someone who can use a good note
2nd group project – random act of gifting
All 13 young men chose a toy to gift to someone and report back the act.
A very kind Elizabeth from Lake Park Elementary knows the importance of being kind and loves that Collier County celebrates Kindness Awareness Week. Elisabeth remembers many of the details from our program at her school two years ago.
Jason and Lizzy are new full-time residents to Collier County. They lived on St. Thomas Virgin Islands and had to leave because of the devastation of hurricane Irma. They embody the meaning of kindness and are thrilled to participate in Collier County Kindness Awareness Week, every day, the rest of their lives. Lizzy has a blog called island lizzy. You can find it on islandlizzy.com
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.