Random Acts of Kindness Day
Random Acts of Kindness Day is a day to celebrate and encourage random acts of kindness. "It's just a day to celebrate kindness and the whole pay it forward mentality", said Tracy Van Kalsbeek, executive director of the Stratford Perth Community Foundation, in 2016, where the day is celebrated on November 4. It is celebrated on September 1 in New Zealand and on February 17 in the US.Background
The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation was founded in 1995 in the US. It is a nonprofit headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Random Acts of Kindness day began in 2004 in New Zealand.Suggested activities
Ideas include:
- Pay for the person behind you in the drive-thru
- Let someone go ahead of you in line
- Buy extra at the grocery store and donate it to a food pantry
- Buy flowers for someone
- Help someone change a flat tire
- Post anonymous sticky notes with validating or uplifting messages around for people to find
- Compliment a colleague on their work
- Send an encouraging text to someone
- Take muffins to work
- Let a car into the traffic ahead of you
- Wash someone else's car
- Take a gift to new neighbors and introduce yourself
- Pay the bus fare for the passenger behind you
