People hit by the kindness bug will do everything from planting trees to helping someone carry groceries to the car. The book includes a mixed bag of stories highlighting good deeds. Ten percent of profits from books sold benefit Volunteers of America, a nonprofit human services organization that has programs to help homeless people, senior citizens and those with mental and physical disabilities. Culpepper wants to get as many people involved as possible. Teachers can give students assignments to perform one act of kindness.
Individuals can visit retirement centers.
The main objective is to get the word out about how people can participate. Leave a bouquet on the desk of a colleague with whom you normally don't get along. Clean out your closets and take your old clothes to a shelter or a thrift store run by a nonprofit organization. Make dinner for a neighbor. Take canned goods for donation to a food bank.