Random Acts of Kindness

The Giving Back group met the last week in December to discuss the many ways our "Acts of Kindess" affected ourselves & others. The following is a list of some of the acts that took place:

• Buying lunch for one of the volunteer Salvation Army Food Ringers
• Reading to a friend in a Nursing Home
• Preparing food snacks for local food distribution center
• Helping a hospital employee transport a patient
• Donating basic supplies & Christmas gifts to a single mother
• Donating a Starbuck gift card & buying drinks to those in line
• Clipping coupons & placing them on those items so others could enjoy a savings
• Delivering a newspaper to the in-laws on Christmas Day so they didn't have to go out
• Volunteering at the Open Door Mission & Salvation Army
• Giving an extra $20 tip to a College Student who is working as a waitress to get through school

Giving Back

Happy Holidays everyone! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, with much to be thankful for.

The votes have been tallied and we have a winner - Giving Back - is the official name of our group!

Our November Food Bank project was a great success - at the Scheef family Thanksgiving, 102 pounds of food & $20 was collected on behalf of the Syracuse & Burr Food Banks. The following day, a group of us met to collect another 250 POUNDS of food for the Omaha Food Bank! This is extremely impressive & they were both so very grateful!

December: Random Acts of Kindness Month

A "Random Act of Kindness" has no greater purpose than to make someone smile & be happy. Our December Giving Back project will give us the opportunity to perform random acts of kindness to someone in the community. This can be a spontaneous or planned event. It is not meant to be hard or complicated but fun & uplifting.

Examples of Random Acts of Kindness:

• Offer a night of babysitting for a friend so they can go out Christmas shopping
• Visit someone in the hospital or nursing home that otherwise would spend the day alone
• Read a book to a child
• Bake Christmas cookies with someone that doesn't feel they can get into the Holiday spirit this year
• Compliment someone
• Send a letter to someone letting them know you think of them
• Pay for the person's coffee in line behind you
  
  Thursday December 27th we will gather at Rod & Gail Bates' home (13020 Old Cherry Road) at 6:30pm for snacks & drinks to discuss the blessings of this month's project & plan for 2008.