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

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Help someone whose 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)

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Random Acts

• Pay someone’s toll/coffee
• Let someone go in front of you
• Slow down and smile at strangers

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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

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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