Join the WindsorEssex Community Foundation as we celebrate Random Act of Kindness Day 2023!

The WindsorEssex Community Foundation (WECF) is pleased to bring Random Act of Kindness Day® (RAK Day®) to Windsor-Essex County on Friday, February 17th, 2023, and invites everyone in our community to join the annual RAK Day® celebration.

The message for Random Act of Kindness Day® is simple: “Kindness Matters.” February 17th, 2022 is a chance for us to remind each other why we love our community and show each other kindness and compassion! The WECF encourages individuals, groups, schools, businesses, and organizations to help create a more empathetic and connected community by spreading kindness to others. You can do something as simple as holding a door open for someone or as elaborate as preparing, delivering, and serving meals to the under-privileged, with no expectation of receiving anything in return other than bringing a smile to someone’s face and the hope that the recipient of your kindness will then do something nice for someone else.

The WindsorEssex Community Foundation is proud to share some of the things we are doing to celebrate Random Act of Kindness Day®:

• The WECF will once again be holding our annual colouring contest for RAK Day®. Teachers and their students from both the Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board and the Greater Essex County District School Board have been invited to take part in the colouring contest! Winners of the colouring contest will be announced on RAK Day® so stay tuned for the announcement.
• A “Kindness on Display” project is underway in local secondary schools, with students encouraged to create a post-it note wall where messages of kindness can be posted for all to see.
• Kindness Kits have been distributed to Random Act of Kindness Ambassadors, or “RAKtivists”, with instructions for how to amplify the message of RAK Day® throughout our community.
• The WECF is again partnering with VON to deliver over 250 cookies through their Meals on Wheels Program.

If you are taking part in RAK Day® please share the good work you are doing on social media channels so make sure to use #RAKDay #RAKDayWindsorEssex and tag @WECFoundation on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram!

Random Act of Kindness Day® is a nation-wide celebration of kindness promoting a ‘pay it forward’ movement in the community. RAK Day® is meant to be a fun and simple way to encourage unexpected moments of kindness in our community. For the past eleven years, the WECF has brought Rak Day® to the Windsor-Essex Community, bringing the community together by engaging residents across Windsor-Essex in small acts of kindness and generosity, in partnership with the Random Act of Kindness Day Foundation.

The WindsorEssex Community Foundation is a perpetual community trust for philanthropic purposes. For 40 years, the WECF has existed to manage donors’ legacy funds and make community investments to support local community programs. Through community investments, the WECF is able to establish partnerships to assist a broad range of community organizations.