We decided to celebrate by performing 83 Random Acts of Kindness--one act of kindness for each year HCCU has been helping members achieve success. Each staff member was asked to perform a minimum of 5-6 random acts of kindness and live the theme of People Helping People. Some of our staff got particularly creative--take a look!
- Gave "thank you" note to mailman for delivering my mail to be even when the address is incorrect
- Paid for coffee/meal for someone at Starbucks
- Donated products (toiletry, personal care, etc) to UWGB students
- Helped someone save $10 on their purchase with coupons!
- Donated diapers to families in need
- Gave someone $5 in an envelope
- Bought a young lady a Starbucks coffee ($4)
- Printed something for a friend
- Cleaned room for a resident at nursing home me and my grandma visit
- Made cookies for my Grandma’s neighbor
- Helped lady with kids at the store with bagging groceries
- Helped older gentleman put groceries in his car
- Bought older lady $7 meal at McDonalds
- Dropped off money at my local utilities office so that funds could be applied to a deserving persons bill especially since weather is getting colder
- Donated food to the local food pantry via a food drive at Copps grocery store
- Donated Cat food to the local shelter via a drive at the local Petco
- Purchased Breast Cancer Awareness flowers and gave them to someone who is a Cancer Survivor
- Tipped waitress 100% of my total bill at my networking lunch
- Made baked goods for my boyfriends work crew
- Gave someone my cart
- Baked cookies for my neighbor
- Paid for the order of the person behind me in the McDonald’s drive-thru
- Wrote a thank you to the mail person
- Gave my seat to someone
- Bought coffee for an outgoing GM
- Bought coffee for an incoming GM
- Printed something for a friend
- Opened door for stranger
- Paid for someone’s dinner
- Let someone merge in front of me during rush hour
- Helped someone with a work challenge
- Took a picture for someone per their request
- Bought tickets to a concert for a friend
- Gave $5 to the Kwik Trip cashier to pay for part of the next customer’s purchase.
- Baked a nice warm meal for two friends so they could eat something hearty for lunch, versus a sandwich.
- Bought lunch for someone
- Let a lady with two anxious kids and a huge cart of groceries check out before me at Target.
- Paid for the person behind me in line at McDonald’s drive thru
- Left a $5 tip for the bartender who got me a water during my volleyball game.
- Printed something for a friend.
- Said “Yes” when Goodwill cashier asked if I wanted to round up for a charity.
- Made copies of old photos and sent them with a handwritten letter to a good friend who I haven’t talked to in a while.
- Bought a $5 Starbucks gift card and gave it to the gentleman who held the door open for me and was so cheerful.
- Brought a package of cookies to the workers at Maple Ridge Nursing Home
- Brought snacks to the teachers at LearningRx along with a thank you note to everyone working there because they are so great with the kids and so happy all the time!
- Gave a package of cookies to the girl working the drive-thru at McDonalds to share with her co-workers.
Left a pack of gum with the McDonalds drive-thru worker to give to the car behind me in line.- Brought snacks to the staff at Bright Beginnings Daycare, where my daughter went years ago, and her favorite teacher was still there!
- Bought coffee for someone
- Made pies, dropped them off at my grandma’s nursing home and visited.
- Got stopped at a drawbridge and I let cars from side road and other oncoming traffic go in front of me.
- Dropped books off at a few Little Free Libraries around town.
- I was getting pumpkins at a roadside vendor and gave $10.00 to some kids that were there to buy pumpkins also.
- Donated some clothing to Goodwill.
- Let a shopper go in front of me at the grocery store.
- I go to the Y almost every day and one of the ladies at the front desk always calls me by name and has a huge smile on her face when I come in. I look forward to it when I arrive and somehow every day she is there I am just happier going in the morning. So today, I dropped off two $5 Starbucks gift cards with a note saying thanks for the bright smile so early in the morning….I asked her to use one for herself and to hand one off to someone that inspires her day!
- Bought coffee for the person behind me
- Bought lunch for the person behind me
- I left a thank you note in our mailbox at home for our mail carrier because he is always so friendly and says “hi” when the kids are outside playing. He really enjoyed it. He said he has been with the US Postal Service for 8 years now (retiree) and no one has ever done this. I was really glad he liked it and my kids really appreciated it.
- I purchased a beverage through the drive thru at McDonalds for the person behind me.
- I bought the person behind me in the car wash line an ultimate wash. I got a honk and a wave when I was leaving the lot.
- We donated our unused Nintendo Wii to Goodwill on the east side. Hopefully some other children can enjoy it and put it to use.
- I opened the door for a member’s grandmother who came in to deposit a check for her granddaughter who was traveling outside of the country. The doors at Eastman are quite heavy and she would have struggled with them.
- Paid for the people behind me at Culver’s drive thru. They actually turned it around and bought me ice cream with the money instead. So nice!
- Paid for the car behind me at Wendy’s drive thru.
- Gave up my seat for someone.
- Donated some of my unused clothes.
- Mowed my neighbors lawn after I mowed mine.
- Made my neighbor’s dinner.
- I used $5 to buy two people sitting outside McDonalds a coffee and Sausage McMuffin.
- I used 5 dollars to prepay a gas pump (I left a note saying it was prepaid)
- I went out to eat this past weekend and between me and a friend we paid for a couple’s 10th anniversary dinner.
- Paid $4.19 for the person behind me at McDonalds.
- I opened the door for a lady at a restaurant
- I opened the door to the credit union for two ladies. I gave one a hug!
- I opened the door for a member as he was entering the credit union.
- I opened the door for a member as she was leaving the credit union.
- Let a person go ahead of me in line at the grocery store.
- A guy I see everyday standing at the bus stop, I stopped and gave him coffee one day and found out his name (Lenard). He was very surprised and happy, we wave to each other everyday when I pull up at the stop he is waiting at.
- Gave a
ride to one of my son's friends at school for a school activity they had last
weekend. He wanted to go but couldn’t because he didn’t have a ride and wasn’t allowed to
ride with other kids who had their licenses as the parents didn’t feel they had
enough driving experience. Happier than a pig in mud.
- A gal pulled up to me at stop light asked me how to get to a business. She was lost and had an appointment was going to be late. Rather than try to explain, I told her to follow me and drove her to the parking lot of the building and got her there in time. She was very happy.
- Purchased ten dollars worth of tickets from a gal for a raffle. She was trying to raise money for a cause and couldn’t get anyone to contribute. She was so happy she let me know it encouraged her to keep plugging away and ended up selling $332.00 for the cause. It was nice of her to let me know she far exceeded her goal and that I helped in a small way to motivate her.
- Boys Scouts were trying to sell their goods to raise funds out in front of Festival. Everyone was walking by and saying maybe later, no, too expensive. So, I bought a can of one of their goods and turned around and gave it to someone who was trying hard to ward them off. They were shocked. They bought something as well. Not sure if they gave it away, I left before I could see if they did. Great feeling.
Written/Compiled by: Breanna B.
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