Kindness Starts With One®

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Do you have someone in your life who inspired you to be a better person? Did you witness an act of kindness that left an impression? Share your kindness story with the world.

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The People at Basketball

at my basketball everyone says sorry when they block people and they are always cheering even when you dont get it in. they are really nice to everyone

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Haverford High School's No Place For Hate Week of Kindness

Hello! We are Haverford High School's No Place For Hate club and in honor of Random Act of Kindness Day, we created the "Week of Kindness" at our school. Our mission, like the Random Act of Kindness Foundation, was to make kindness the norm. Every day we had volunteers from our club to hand things out to the school, and...

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lonely kid

I'm in the 6th grade, I and my friends were playing basketball together, we saw that this kid was playing on the wings by himself we invited him over to play with us, and he was actually really good.

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my freind Nate

I was in third grade. At reccess I was board and had no one to play with. Then my freind Nate asked me to play handball with him and I told him yes. After reccess I thanked him for letting me play with him.

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One By One

Every other Sunday, I volunteer at my church, I teach 2nd graders. And we all know kids, they have NO filter, so they just say whatever comes to mind. And this past Sunday, 02132022, I had two step-sister's and their kindergarten brother who had autism-I love kids who need special needs, they're so cute-and this one kid, Timothy mad fun...

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Giving A Slice

2020, I went camping with my family-like every Summer-and we were camping in Savannah, Georgia and then to South Carolina. We were Savannah one night, walking around a small town, and this couple bought a box of fresh pizza, and they walked by a homeless veteran, and they opened their box of pizza and they gave him a few slices...

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The Halls + crutches

(Just an FYI, this is not my story, just an act of kindness that I was there for!) At my old school, the 8th grade hallways were always pretty congested when the bell rang. I was in 6th grade at the time. I was helping my best friend at the time who was on crutches due to a sprained ankle,...

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Helping out a home owner

I bought a flat last year that needed a lot of renovating so in order to cut costs I’ve been doing it up myself, unfortunately this also meant I haven't had much time to go food shopping so I can have a decent meal. Met a friend at the bar a few weeks into renovations and mentioned how things were...

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to give is to get

i work at a youth leadership camp. every day I'm surprised by how smart and resilient children are. they are told their whole youth that they are just kids but they experience not so childish things. I've had kids come to camp crying because they slept on the street, some kids come hungry and some kids come from a physically...

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Help of a kind person

I was walking through the halls of my school trying to get to my next class and there were people getting pushed, a kid had fallen on the ground and dropped all of his stuff. A sweet person came and helped him pick up his stuff walked him to the nurse to see if he was ok than walked him...

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The Jared Box Project

The Jared Box Project is on a mission to bring smiles and joy to children in hospitals. Please consider sharing our compelling story with your audience. One little kindergartener named Jared sparked a wave of kindness that spread across the country. Jared’s inspiration has lifted the spirits of over 980,000 children in hospitals in all 50 states. His story has...

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mi amor

this is me and my boyfriend and I love him very very much he is my happness tbh I don't know what I would do with out him we just went to mexico together witches was fun I meet all his family we went to really cool places and ughhh it was fun but the reason am putting this on...

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Groceries

One time I was at a local Publix as the man in front of me forgot his wallet at his house. I saw that he only had a few small items as I decided to pitch in and pay for his groceries, as he was overjoyed by my kind act.

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♡Skating Support♡

A girl who I recently befriended was having a skating recital which she invited me to watch. Being kind, I decided to make a poster for her. I did it to give her some extra support and cheer her on. When it was her turn to preform, I held up the poster and she seemed to like it. I am...

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Animals need kindness too

Colorado recently had terrible fires. Nearly 2,000 people lost there homes, but not just humans, animals too. My mom and I heard that during the fires people were out and about so the animals ran out of the house when the fires started and many animals became strays;so we signed up to be animal foster parents until they found new...

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Taxes

So this one time I went to the store to get an Xbox live gift card and I forgot taxes was a thing so when I got it and went to the cash register I didn't have enough money but then the cashier buys the whole gift card for me and when I got older I found him and we...

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Kindness Story

One person who really inspires me is my mom. She really inspires me to work hard, and to succeed in life. That's what I really love about my mom. She's the best.

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Full Circle

Everyday I do a random act of kindness but one particular day I went to visit my long time friend and I decided to share my story that I share with students in the classroom with her. I brought a beautifully wrapped gift for my friend to open after I finished the story. The items inside the wrapped gift went...

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My Coworker's Selflessness

A recent time I have experienced someone else demonstrating a random act of kindness was in my workplace. One time a customer came up to me and was asking for the manager of my department. She knew my manager’s name, so I suspected they must have known each other outside of the store or they really connected the last time...

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Paper Heart Attack

One of my favorite activities to do with students is a paper "Heart Attack". I was introduced to this idea when some friends of my daughter "heart attacked" our front door. I took this idea and now do it at school. As a principal, with the students' help, I have the opportunity to do a "Heart Attack" for every classroom...

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A teen helps out a Blind chick

I was on my way home as usual, then I saw some blind chick lookingfor her dog.So I came over their and said miss I'll help find your dog. But first I had to take her home so about 20 minutes later we got to her house. Before I left I said I'll find your dog as soon as possible....

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Shopping

Something I was taught and have carried on doing is letting people at the supermarket with baskets go before me when I have a trolley-load of things. I see it as common courtesy, but from the reactions this gesture always receives I realise it's seen as a random kindness. It always makes me feel better, anyway.

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Nathaniel

There was this kid Nathaniel who went to my school in elementary and he was a really nice and sweet kid but he always got bullied because of his facial deformation. There was also a girl named Natasha who pretty much was friends with everyone and could force anyone into doing what she wanted because she didn't care about getting...

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math class

Every day or at least I try for every day in math class when I get up and put away my calculator I take everyone’s that I see. One reason why I do this is because I am already going there so it just makes sense to help out and put their calculator back too. another reason why I do...

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Casey's rewards

In 2020 because corona was going around I was only allowed to hang out with 1 friend. Because she was the only one I was allowed to hang out with we hung out almost every single day during the summer. This one time we were at her house and we wanted food for our sleepover so we asked her mom...

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how my dad inspires me

my dad inspires me by showing me new experances to try. like he did show choir when he was younger and then he told me I should try it. but once I gave it a shot I relized how fun show choir is .

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Compliments impact my day :)

When someone compliments me, I get flustered and act stupid. So when a couple people I didn't know (during different time periods) complimented my style in clothing, my glasses, me, I just stood there feeling tingly and really happy. I tried to respond thank you and act cool and all, but really, it comes out weird and embarrassing. But now...

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the time i helped my friend

me and my were walking around and then he deiced it was a good idea to throw rocks in the pool and i told him that is not a good idea and we could get in a lot of trouble so my friend said yeah your are right so we walked away from the pool then we went back to...

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Dogsitting

So I was at home on a weekend and my dog needs to go outside so I let him out. I find my neighbors crying and talking so I go to them to try to help. They tell me that they have planned a trip to Florida and don't have a dog sitter and that's because their dog Brooklyn is...

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My story

My story starts with not having many friends to talk to and not really talking to people then a random person had walked up to me because I was a really quiet person at first. Then they just started to talk to me and I didn't want to be rude so I said something back. Then I saw others do...

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