How many acts of good do you do in one day? How about a week? Over a whole month? What if you could do one act of kindness, every day, all month long?
At State Farm®, all employees and agents are encouraged to record 100 acts of good before the company’s 100th anniversary in 2022. No act of good — your time, talents or monetary contributions — to help others and your communities is too small. Take the 30-day kindness challenge, too, and see what a difference you can make in one month.
Need some random acts of kindness ideas? Use this list as inspiration. Or download the 30-day calendar.
- Leave snacks for delivery people — granola bars and water, for example.
- Donate used shipping materials (and save them from the landfill): Some stores accept packaging peanuts, air pillows and bubble wrap.
- Donate time to volunteer at a classroom party.
- Send a college kid (doesn’t even have to be yours) a campus store gift certificate for supplies.
- Buy a stash of coffee gift cards and hand them out to emergency responders.
- Fix a meal for a family that needs extra help.
- Buy something local to support a business.
- Leave anonymous flowers for someone who has experienced loss this year.
- Drop off snacks for a local school’s food pantry.
- Donate time to help a teacher with copying or laminating.
- Leave an envelope of quarters at a laundromat for customers in need of change.
- Greet the school bus driver with a to-go mug of hot chocolate.
- Donate new children's books to a classroom in a school in your city.
- Hold doors open for people all day long.
- Send a handwritten note to a relative or friend, even if they’re in town.
- Stash small plastic baggies with spare change and energy bars to give out to people in need.
- Pick up seven extra pieces of trash, one for every day of the week.
- Let a parent and his or her kids go ahead of you in line at the grocery store.
- If you're traveling, tip a housekeeper. In one study, 97 percent of travelers said they tipped servers but almost one-third did not tip hotel cleaning staff.
- Feed someone’s parking meter.
- Do a flash donation drive for your local animal shelter: Ask friends and family on social media to drop donations at your home for a week, then drop them off when it’s over.
- Donate unused books to a local library or place in a neighborhood little library.
- Offer to babysit someone’s children for a night out for free.
- Pay someone’s fine at the library.
- Sign up to serve a meal at a shelter.
- Pay it forward in a toll booth or drive-through coffee line.
- Volunteer at an animal shelter.
- Deliver lunch to the staff at your local hospital’s emergency room.
- Donate good but unused professional clothes to a career closet.
- Leave random positive sticky notes for co-workers, family members or neighbors.
