Neighbor to Neighbor Toledo is gearing up for the Intentional Acts of Kindness Week, Nov. 1 through Nov. 5.
The organization has a goal of spreading positivity throughout the Toledo neighborhoods during the week before the election.
“Let’s blanket our community with Acts of Kindness. Let’s create positive, neighborly interactions. Let’s remind everyone to love their neighbor. Let’s lift spirits at election sites. Let’s build kinder, gentler neighborhoods,” Neighbor to Neighbor Toledo wrote on the website.
Throughout the city of Toledo, people are invited to spread positivity through intentional acts of kindness.
According to Neighbor to Neighbor Toledo, The City of Toledo, The Village of Ottawa Hills and The University of Toledo each have declared Nov. 1 through Nov. 5 Intentional Acts of Kindness Weeks.
Neighbor to Neighbor provided a list of ideas for different ways you can be intentionally kind to others:
Free:
- Let someone go ahead of you in the grocery store
- Take trash bins in for a neighbor
- Pick up litter in your neighbor’s yard
- Pick up litter on the bike/walking paths
- Call an elderly neighbor
- Thank a bank teller or cashier for being there
- Ask someone to tell you their story, and listen to them
- Share an uplifting/fun book you have just read, or a puzzle, etc
- Drop off unused clothing to a homeless shelter
- Offer someone a ride to the store
- Send a message of gratitude to everyone on your text feed
- Intentionally recognize one good thing about each person you meet and share that if you can
Cost:
- Deliver flowers to a hospital ER, nursing home nurses station
- Take donuts to the police station or fire house
- Write thank you notes to public servants
- Take a meal to a sick neighbor
- Bring cookies to a meeting
- Send a birthday card to a friend or relative, or just a thinking of you
- Pay off school lunch debt
- Give away Heart your Neighbor yard signs
- Shop at the store of a small business owner
Election Day ideas:
- Give flowers to voters
- Give candy to voters
- Offer a ride to the polls to a neighbor
Neighbor to Neighbor will be sharing their intentional acts of kindness on their Facebook and Instagram throughout the week.
For more information, visit neighbor2neighbortoledo.com/events.
Neighbor to Neighbor Toledo is gearing up for the Intentional Acts of Kindness Week, Nov. 1 through Nov. 5.
The organization has a goal of spreading positivity throughout the Toledo neighborhoods during the week before the election.
“Let’s blanket our community with Acts of Kindness. Let’s create positive, neighborly interactions. Let’s remind everyone to love their neighbor. Let’s lift spirits at election sites. Let’s build kinder, gentler neighborhoods,” Neighbor to Neighbor Toledo wrote on the website.
Throughout the city of Toledo, people are invited to spread positivity through intentional acts of kindness.
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According to Neighbor to Neighbor Toledo, The City of Toledo, The Village of Ottawa Hills and The University of Toledo each have declared Nov. 1 through Nov. 5 Intentional Acts of Kindness Weeks.
Neighbor to Neighbor provided a list of ideas for different ways you can be intentionally kind to others:
Free:
- Let someone go ahead of you in the grocery store
- Take trash bins in for a neighbor
- Pick up litter in your neighbor’s yard
- Pick up litter on the bike/walking paths
- Call an elderly neighbor
- Thank a bank teller or cashier for being there
- Ask someone to tell you their story, and listen to them
- Share an uplifting/fun book you have just read, or a puzzle, etc
- Drop off unused clothing to a homeless shelter
- Offer someone a ride to the store
- Send a message of gratitude to everyone on your text feed
- Intentionally recognize one good thing about each person you meet and share that if you can
Cost:
- Deliver flowers to a hospital ER, nursing home nurses station
- Take donuts to the police station or fire house
- Write thank you notes to public servants
- Take a meal to a sick neighbor
- Bring cookies to a meeting
- Send a birthday card to a friend or relative, or just a thinking of you
- Pay off school lunch debt
- Give away Heart your Neighbor yard signs
- Shop at the store of a small business owner
Election Day ideas:
- Give flowers to voters
- Give candy to voters
- Offer a ride to the polls to a neighbor
Neighbor to Neighbor will be sharing their intentional acts of kindness on their Facebook and Instagram throughout the week.
For more information, visit neighbor2neighbortoledo.com/events.
