{"id":47616,"date":"2017-11-01T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=47616"},"modified":"2017-11-01T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T20:24:00","slug":"random-act-of-kindness-day-returns-to-campus-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/11\/random-act-of-kindness-day-returns-to-campus-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Act of Kindness Day returns to campus Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Brock community is being encouraged to end the week with an extra dose of kindness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The University will be celebrating Random Act of Kindness Day with a variety of activities happening across campus Friday, Nov. 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Created by the Niagara Community Foundation as a way to recognize kindness and humanity in the region, the day encourages people to perform good deeds for one another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Random Act of Kindness cards are available this week at the Student Life Involvement Commons in Mackenzie Chown A-Block 204 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cardholders are encouraged to perform a simple act of kindness for someone \u2014 a neighbour, friend, co-worker or stranger \u2014 before handing the card over to them and asking them to pay that kindness forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRandom Act of Kindness Day is a wonderful opportunity for students, staff and faculty to go the extra mile for others and to do something kind for someone else either on campus or in the broader Niagara community,\u201d said Kristen Smith, Brock\u2019s Manager, Community Outreach Programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the initiatives taking place include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senior administration giving out healthy snacks and Campus Cash for the Campus Store<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Student volunteers raking leaves for seniors in the community<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Captain Kindness performing good deeds on campus<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock Student Alumni Association handing out hot chocolate and doughnuts<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculty sharing RAK cards in their classes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cardmaking stations set up around campus<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Co-op, Career and Experiential Education collecting toiletries for the YWCA.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People are encouraged to use hashtag #rakday to share on social media stories of good deeds they have performed or been the recipient of.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock community is being encouraged to end the week with an extra dose of kindness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":47617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1,4],"tags":[3726,2536,194,5276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47628,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47616\/revisions\/47628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}