Join us during this special week dedicated to Keep Kindness Growing STC!  It’s easy to get started, simply look for opportunities to share kindness, care and compassion.  NO ACT OF KINDNESS IS TOO SMALL!

Acts can be informal and simple, share a smile even with a mask, open a door for someone, greet a person in public or share an act of kindness in your own home.

Acts can be more organized like those hosted by Random Acts Matter.  

Acts can benefit one person, a larger group like your co-workers, neighbors, or the whole community.

Random Act of Kindness

Imagine a world where everyone puts in a little bit of effort to spread some kindness to friends, family, members, co-workers, and even complete strangers. How incredible would that world be? While we might not be able to fully realize this “ideal world,” we can take steps to make it a little bit better.

And one of the ways we can do that is by observing Random Acts of Kindness Week. This holiday week falls during the week of February 17 and encourages people to make the world a better place by doing something kind for someone else.

The History of Random Acts of Kindness Week

Although we’re unsure who officially started this holiday, we do know that it has its origins in the 1980s. This is when Anne Herbert coined the phrase “practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty” in 1982.   Since then, the term has been used as a blueprint for what people should be doing. Some people have evidently taken this philosophy to heart, and now there’s a whole week dedicated to spreading random acts of kindness throughout humanity.