Welcome to the Random Acts of Kindness Community!

Dear Friends,

Thank you for adding your kind presence to our community. We are very excited to connect with you here and share information about kind activities that are making a difference in people’s lives around the world. There’s a growing consciousness of kindness afoot due to the phenomenal inspiration and encouragement you have been passing on with each kind act you do.

As the new manager of the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation I'm happy to introduce myself to you by way of this newsletter and report about some of the things we’re working on to facilitate more kind acts everywhere. I am so impressed by the ways you demonstrate kindness as I’m meeting you in cyberspace everyday. I encourage you to stay connected with us and bring your friends along with you.

In honor of Random Acts of Kindness Week 2010 we recently launched the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation's Facebook page. Amazing kindness is happening and our friends have been telling us about it on Facebook. We invite everyone to join the kindness conversation and share stories, ideas and information about kindness in motion with our community on Facebook.

If you haven’t signed up to receive our daily Kindness idea, please take a minute to link with us via Facebook or Twitter. It’s a daily dose of kind ideas and thoughts to lift your spirits and encourage kind acts. Go to Facebook or
Twitter.

One final note—you have probably noticed that our website is under construction. We are preparing to support the kindness movement around the world with some new website features later in 2010. Our focus is on improving the ongoing kindness connection and offering a place where people who choose to be involved in doing kind acts can become acquainted, find possibilities, and, share resources and support 365 days a year. Stay tuned!

Marilyn Decalo, Manager
marilyn@actsofkindness.org

2011 Kindness Week

While we may be fresh off of Random Acts of Kindness Week 2010, some of you may want to get next year’s dates on your calendars. Random Acts of Kindness Week will be February 14-20, 2011.

Acts Of Kindness Worldwide

Here’s a glimpse of some of the wonderful kind acts people are performing around the world, and some you may want to become involved with:

The Ripples of Kindness Campaign in Angels Camp, California: A small group of local residents is working together to encourage and promote random acts of kindness throughout Calaveras County. In 1995, the Angels Camp City Council passed a proclamation designating Angels Camp as a Kindness Zone. On January 12, 2010 the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors approved the resolution for a county-wide Kindness Zone proclamation effective February 15th, 2010. Their blue ribbon project featuring “Kindness Crusaders” involves all 22 Calaveras County schools. Information can be found at  www.theseedsofkindness.com Way to go Angels Camp!

50 in 52 Journey: Based in Denver, Colorado, 50 in 52 is Dafna Michaelson’s journey to find the people in America who are problem-solvers, idea-generators, people in their communities, in their cities, and in their States who are moving America forward with the goal to inspire and mobilize. Dafna explains her motivation - “I feel that change starts at home and believed that as I seek out and find these ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things to better the lives of people around them I’ll be able to return some of that pride and hope for America. My goal is to inspire you and your peers to jump in and take your ideas off the couch and put them into action in your communities.” Her amazing journey is chronicled at  www.50in52journey.com Thank you Dafna!

And from the Random Acts of Kindness Facebook page:

It makes me feel sooo good when I put a smile on an elderly persons face just doing little things like...opening the door for them, carrying a bag for them or just talking to them!!!! —Geri O.

I have a whole drawer full of Mary Kay samples I am going to give to a Senior Center by me so the ladies there can play with make-up and feel beautiful. —Joanne M.

“Kind Times” On Twitter!

In need of some inspiration? Random Acts of Kindness is now on Twitter sharing a new kind idea each day. Please visit twitter.com/kindness and start following today!

Free Poster

Would you like a free Random Acts of Kindness poster for your classroom or office? Please send your mailing address to info@actsofkindness.org.

Our Sister Foundation

Our sister foundation, The Foundation for a Better Life, is offering a free set of posters promoting positive values featuring such figures as the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Winston Churchill, and other “everyday” heroes plus a free DVD for teachers, youth group leaders and others.

For more information on The Foundation for a Better Life please visit values.com.

To request your free media kit featuring a set of posters and a DVD visit values.com/resource_center. 
FBL can send only one set of posters per request and there are no substitutions on the designs.

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