Please use our website to print our free resources. This workplace guide provides a wealth of kindness ideas for the workplace. Want even more ideas? Browse the Kindness Ideas section of our website for additional inspiration. Everything you do to share and promote kindness helps make the world a better place.

We also encourage you to become a member of the RAK community. It’s free and easy! As a member you can share your ideas with other members, post your own blog, post images and videos, start your own groups and invite others to join! You can connect with other individuals and organizations who are working hard to spread kindness around the world.

RAK CELEBRATION DATES

2011
Random Acts of Kindness Week. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 14-20^th
World Kindness Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 7-13^th
World Kindness Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 13^th

 

Feel free to adapt the RAK Week dates to your own employment environment. You are welcome to celebrate RAK Week or RAK Month any time of the year—or all year long! We support participants with ideas and materials on our website throughout the year.

Also, please keep us informed about your kindness activities. We are a clearinghouse for ideas, and your sharing of ideas will help thousands of others encourage kindness in their workplaces. You can share your ideas through our online form or you can email us at: info@randomactsofkindness.org.

WORKPLACE IDEAS

• Collect goodies for children to donate to city service workers (e.g., police, firefighters, animal shelter).
• Send floral arrangements to senior centers, nursing homes, police station, hospitals, etc. near your office.
• Collect goods throughout RAK Week (or during the whole year) for a food bank or shelter.
• Give coupons for discounted or free goods to schools to use as incentives for their kindness programs.
• If your office has a RAK Week committee, put out a memo to your staff asking for volunteers to help plan and implement the next campaign.
• Donate a percentage of your revenue for one day to a group in need.
• Donate flowers to a meal delivery program.
• Take up a collection to purchase items needed by a nonprofit organization.
• Plant a Kindness Tree or Garden on the office grounds. Ask the mayor to give a brief presentation at the dedication.
• Organize a blood drive dedicated to Random Acts of Kindness.
• Sponsor a Random Acts of Kindness mascot to circulate, distributing gifts and suggestions for acts of kindness.
• Hand out suggestions for random acts of kindness to each customer or client, and offer a nominal discount in exchange for their pledge to do an act of kindness.
• Give away the first $10 of purchases on a given day or pick a couple of days during RAK Week to do this.
• Set up free coffee, tea, or hot chocolate for your employees.