SOCIALLY DISTANCED KINDNESS IDEAS
Examples of qualifying acts of kindness might include:
- Write a random letter to a senior citizen or a member of the Armed Forces to bring a bit of brightness into their day.
- Suggestions: Operation Gratitude or Soldiers’ Angels
- Read a story or performing a monologue for a local senior citizen(s) through Zoom
- Assist a student with remote tutoring or homework
- Make a grocery run on behalf of a homebound neighbor
- Shovel a neighbor’s sidewalk
- Thank someone who you appreciate.
- Loan a favorite book to someone who might enjoy it
- Clean out your house and make a donation to a local charity
- Create (and distribute) homemade art
- Contact your favorite nonprofit and volunteer to make fundraising phone calls and outreach
- Post positive notes around your community
- Randomly pick a small business or lesser-known author that you love, and leave a positive review online
- Make a meal or bake something for friends you know who are isolated or live alone
- Write an overdue thank-you note to someone who has made a difference to you
- Send a card or used toy to a sick child in the hospital
- Use sidewalk chalk to write out nice messages for strangers as they walk down your street
- Mail letters with stickers and colors to children in your neighborhood
- Connect a charity to your Amazon Smile account
- Offer to give your favorite non-profit website design or support; data entry; graphic design, photography; video or any other skill that you possess
- See to see if your local homeless shelters, hospitals and animal shelters need socially distanced volunteer work
- Make a list of anniversary days that might be hard for your friends because of a death or loss of a pet, and then remember to check in on them on that day
- Let someone go ahead of you while you’re waiting in line
- Collect litter that you see on the ground when you’re out and about
- Fill out those surveys they always put on receipts and leave positive comments for employees at businesses
- MoreLoveLetters.com allows you to submit the name and story of someone who really needs some extra love – and then the internet sends them love letters.
- Write a letter to a teacher or someone from your childhood who made a difference to you.
- Paint small rocks with inspirational sayings and place them around your local park.
- Allow someone else to help you. Be the recipient of an act of kindness.
- Write a cute note about how a book changed your life and put it in your favorite book at the library or bookstore.
Done your act of kindness for the month?
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