Parkside Elementary School in Naples, Florida rolled out the red carpet for our visit today. The auditorium was filled to near capacity during both of our programs. Students and educators alike we’re thrilled to learn of Bogart’s travels across the United States and how kindness can make a big difference in all of our lives.
“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
Bogart filled the auditorium to standing room only at Pine Ridge Middle School today. This message of kindness to middle school students is so important. Because of testing and curriculum, it is harder and harder to get into the middle upper schoolers across the country. It’s a shame because this is truly the age group who could use a reminder of having core values in their lives. Thank you to everyone who made this visit a reality.
Collier County schools could quite possibly be the center of kindness in the universe. Pelican Marsh Elementary school amazes me year after year with everything they do to create an incredibly kind campus. Bogart always leaves this campus with a smile on his face.
72 students from Pinecrest Elementary School in Immokalee, Florida were treated to three Kindness programs today. The interest was at fever pitch, especially with Bogart in the room. I love visiting the elementary schools in Collier County especially during their week of kindness activities.
I love visiting schools during Collier County Kindness Awareness Week. It affords me the opportunity to see what the children, teachers and schools as a whole are doing to promote kindness in their community.
This pre-K through 12th grade school could not have been any more kind. The students asked all sorts of wonderful questions and loved walking around the bus after the morning programs. Bogart, of course, once again was the star of the show.
I love running into people I haven’t seen in forty-plus years and being able to pick up with the conversation like you had seen them just yesterday. Such was the case recently in Naples, Florida. The Kindness Bus Tour has a unique way of bringing people together.
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.