The Great Kindness Experiment
MAPLEWOOD IS KIND:
Committed to Kindness
Scientific research has found convincing evidence supporting findings that not only does being kind help make the world a better place, it also offers significant health benefits, both physically and mentally.
The Taskforce for humanity coalition is launching its Kindness Experiment in Maplewood NJ with the support of its Mayor Victor De Luca and its Vice Mayor Kathleen Leventhal.
Maplewood Residents will be urged to engage in acts of kindness on an ongoing basis. Maplewood is already a leader in environmental awareness and accomplishments; it is striving to be a truly inclusive, racially integrated community; that it should become one of the kindest communities in the nation is the logical outcome of it’s progressive consciousness.
The Taskforce will kickoff this campaign on October 1, 2011 in a program designed to aquaint clergy, community, business and government leaders with the campaign, the benefits of kind acts as well as to gain their input as to ways in which the campaign can be successful.
Maplewood residents will be offered rubber bracelets with the words “Committed to Kindness” printed on them. Participants will pledge to engage in kind acts whenever the occasion arises. There will be a website onto which residents may log in and report their kind acts. The website will also contain a health and well-being survey whose results will hopefully contribute to the research on the link between physical and mental health and kindness and thereby encourage the spread of kind acts.
We envision Maplewood as being one of the first of many such campaigns throughout the State and ultimately throughout the country.
CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE MAPLEWOOD IS KIND WEBSITE
Acts of Kindness and Your Health
Scientific research has found convincing evidence supporting findings that not only does being kind help make the world a better place, it also offers significant health benefits, both physically and mentally.
Allan Luks, former executive director of the Institute for the Advancement of Health and executive director of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of New York City, documented the findings of his study on kindness in his Read More
Please revisit this site regularly fo updates on the Great Kindness Experiment.
The Taskforce for humanity coalition is launching its Kindness Experiment in Maplewood NJ with the support of its Mayor Victor De Luca and its Vice Mayor Kathleen Leventhal.
Maplewood Residents will be urged to engage in acts of kindness on an ongoing basis. Maplewood is already a leader in environmental awareness and accomplishments; it is striving to be a truly inclusive, racially integrated community; that it should become one of the kindest communities in the nation is the logical outcome of it’s progressive consciousness.
The Taskforce will kickoff this campaign on October 1, 2011 in a program designed to aquaint clergy, community, business and government leaders with the campaign, the benefits of kind acts as well as to gain their input as to ways in which the campaign can be successful.
Maplewood residents will be offered rubber bracelets with the words “Committed to Kindness” printed on them. Participants will pledge to engage in kind acts whenever the occasion arises. There will be a website onto which residents may log in and report their kind acts. The website will also contain a health and well-being survey whose results will hopefully contribute to the research on the link between physical and mental health and kindness and thereby encourage the spread of kind acts.
We envision Maplewood as being one of the first of many such campaigns throughout the State and ultimately throughout the country.
CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE MAPLEWOOD IS KIND WEBSITE
Acts of Kindness and Your Health
Scientific research has found convincing evidence supporting findings that not only does being kind help make the world a better place, it also offers significant health benefits, both physically and mentally.
Allan Luks, former executive director of the Institute for the Advancement of Health and executive director of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of New York City, documented the findings of his study on kindness in his Read More
Please revisit this site regularly fo updates on the Great Kindness Experiment.
