Ideas for Sharing Kindness - Neighbors & Coworkers
Offer to “power clean” a single mom’s home. Leave your cleaning supplies behind.
“Adopt-a-family” – provide a Christmas meal, a tree, and gifts.
Give an extra tip to your newspaper, postal carrier, or milk delivery person.
Buy your boss a cup of coffee.
Buy a new calendar for a workmate.
Put all the ingredients for Christmas goodies into a basket along with the recipe – then put it on someone’s porch or desk anonymously.
Treat a co-worker to lunch.
Leave encouraging sticky notes on co-workers' desks.
Initiate a service project; encourage co-workers to comprise your “work team.”
Host a progressive dinner in your neighborhood.
Sponsor a ‘Secret Santa’ event in your workplace. Draw names and give a small gift.
Give up emails for a day – talk personally with anyone you would usually email.
Shovel your neighbor’s snow.
Take bagels into the office.
Hand-deliver Christmas cards to your neighbors.
Bless a family who is new to your neighborhood by taking them dinner, inviting them over to your house, or helping them hang Christmas lights.
Organize a cookie exchange at your office.
Leave a “thinking of you” note or card in an elderly neighbor’s mailbox.
Invite your neighbors over for a holiday open house – ask them to bring only themselves!
Bake one of your favorite desserts and take it to a neighbor.
Volunteer to set up Christmas decorations or trees for an elderly individual in your neighborhood.
