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Kindness: Some Ideas
Connection
- Mail a Just Because card, even to someone in your own home
- Bring bagels & donuts to work or an event
- Share a beautiful or funny song
- Share meals
- Remind someone why you love and enjoy them
- Create your own traditions: Friendsgiving, Hearts Day, Christmas Movie
- Make a shared calendar of fun events to look forward to together
- Send a silly/cute gift from someone’s favorite celebrity
Help someone who is sick or down
- Check in on them often
- Pick up groceries/Bring over a cooked meal
- Drop off flowers or a plant
- Help tidy up their home
- Share a heartwarming book (poetry/quotes, a beloved storybook, helpful/issue-specific, guided journal, humorous, etc)
Random Acts
- Pay someone’s toll/coffee
- Let someone go in front of you
- Slow down and smile at strangers
Donate
- Money (e.g. GiveWell)
- Food bank
- Blood (e.g One Blood’s Big Red Bus)
- Clothes/Items (e.g. Hospice Thrift Store, Domestic Violence Shelter, Metropolitan Ministries)
- Research: Effective Altruism movement
Volunteer
- Tutor/School/Library/ESOL (English as a second language)
- Big Brother Big Sister
- Advocacy Work/Gaurdian Ad Litem
- Local politics/National politics/Poll worker
- Start a Neighbors Helping Neighbors group
- Pet Shelter
- Community Garden/Farm
- Disaster Relief
- Veterans
- Homeless
- Place of worship
- Masons/Shriners
- Rotary/American Legion