This is the last day to vote! Your vote could help us win $10,000 from KIND Snacks. This much-needed funding will allow us to expand our deliveries to San Francisco hospitals.
There are four ways to vote: Commit to perform an act of kindness (one vote), then send an email to a friend (two votes), share that you voted on Facebook (three votes) and send up a tweet (four votes).
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Random Acts of Flowers’ journey started with the vision of one man who saw firsthand the healing power of flowers.
Nine years ago today, our founder Larsen Jay had a near-fatal accident that changed his life forever. While repairing a building, he fell off a ladder and suffered massive injuries. He was rushed to the hospital, where he spent several weeks in a Level 1 trauma unit.
While Larsen was in the hospital, he received many flowers and saw their healing effect. As soon as he was able, he began taking his flowers to other patients, and the idea for Random Acts of Flowers was born.
A year after his accident he opened the first branch in Knoxville, Tenn. At that time, he said, “We had no idea what we were doing, but we knew we had to do it.”
Now RAF has five branches nationwide, and we’re looking forward to making our 200,000th delivery in early 2017. Thanks, Larsen, for sharing your vision — and to all the partners, volunteers, employees, donors, sponsors and recipients who’ve helped create a culture of kindness in our communities.
Chicago Parent
By: Kelly Q. Anderson
Nicole Jakob, a North Shore area mom, was inspired by two things: a love of art and a loathing of participation trophies. In an era ripe with humble-bragging and social media ‘Likes,’ she set out to promote something different: anonymous altruism.
“I wanted to encourage kids to do something kind when no one was watching them, when they would not be recognized for it,” Jakob professed. “That being said, if you’re going to sell kids on it, I knew that it had to be fun or they wouldn’t do it. So I kept in mind that it had to be edgy and engaging.”
Three years of research birthed a solution: Renegade Made Craft Kits. The craft kit goal is making people happy and teaching kindness without the promise of reward or recognition–and that doing so is actually crazy fun. All kits include a black renegade bandit mask so that kids can get kind under a sneaky veil of anonymity.
Kit themes include:
Bouquets bring out the best smiles, right? Find out firsthand as you assemble your own paper flower bouquet to be placed in public for the taking. Bonus: Each bloom explains the free floral gift and encourages the recipient to pass the positivity around by creating their own kind gestures.
What a great first day at the RAF Annual Conference!
Informative speakers …
Lots of new ideas …
And the Big Love Bus!
Looking forward to Day Two!
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WOW! Just wow! Thank you Hallerin Hilton Hill for delivering such inspirational opening remarks to kick off the RAF annual conference for our team, who have traveled from all points across the country to our national headquarters in Knoxville.
We’re thrilled to welcome our branches from around the country to this year’s RAF annual conference. Over the next few days we’ll share highlights from the retreat, but for now, let’s kick it off by giving a big Vol welcome to our teams from Chicago, Tampa Bay, Silicon Valley and Indianapolis!
Every month, KIND Causes gives $10,000 to support a great cause. This month, our branch in Silicon Valley has a shot at winning this meaningful funding, but only if we get more votes.
You can earn us four points by voting at the link below, then sharing on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Thank you for helping make the world a kinder place! Don’t forget to vote and share!
By: WVLT – Sara Mitchell
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT)– Random Acts of Flowers partnered with Alzheimer’s Tennessee to repurpose the flowers from the Pat Summitt “Celebration of Life.” Volunteers picked up the flowers from Thompson-Boling Arena, deconstructed the arrangements and created 372 bouquets that were delivered to Alzheimer’s and memory care patients in East Tennessee.
Executive Director for Random Acts of Flowers Knoxville branch, Jennifer Sheehan, says it is a great opportunity to brighten the day of someone else.
By WBIR.com
KNOXVILLE – Flowers received at Pat Summitt’s memorial celebration on Thursday will be transformed into 300 bouquets and given out to residents of East Tennessee senior care facilities that serve Alzheimer’s and memory care patients.
Random Acts of Flowers, Alzheimer’s Tennessee, Inc. and the University of Tennessee Athletic Department are partnering to make the delivery happen.
The Weather Channel’s spinoff Facebook page titled United States of Awesome will livestream the day starting around 10:30 a.m Friday morning.
It’s a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States, and often all those flowers you buy for loved ones will end up in the trash after just a few days. There’s a group working to make those bouquets last longer, while helping local patients in the hospital.
Kellie Doyle from Random Acts of Flowers sat down with CBS4 This Morning to explain her organization’s goals.