KINDNESS DAY INITIATIVE
Each year on November 20th, our city is energized with big and small gestures of kindness. Some of the kindness practiced is random and unexpected. But there is also purposeful kindness, by organizations and individuals eager to recognize others with love.
A big part of the November 20th excitement is set in motion by our local public schools. Our preschool students make kindness posters for City Hall.
Kindness Day includes the elementary school letter campaign. Hundreds of elementary school students write letters to our older adults in local senior housing communities.
Middle School students send cards to Melrose Wakefield Hospital and Melrose High students reach out to impactful educators.
Crossing guards, custodians, and nurses are all recognized in special ways. Food Pantries and city departments are treated with extra care. PTOs celebrate educators with sweet treats and other surprises. The Melrose High band plays in front of Central Administration at the start of the school day and several senior living communities are serenaded by a string ensemble. Coffee and donuts are delivered to Melrose Wakefield Hospital. Kindness Murals appear in the lobbies of most of our schools and an interactive mural is chalked — by our local artists and sponsored by the Messina Fund — on the wall outside of Main Street’s YMCA. Stop by for a photo shoot!
Many Melrose Kindness Warriors — Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Book Clubs, many other groups and ordinary citizens — choose to sign up with MelroseKind to perform kindness missions, including spreading kindness to our local firefighters and police officers, the post office, the library, and other wonderful and local organizations and non-profits.
Look for our banner flying over Main Street and our Great Kindness Challenge all over our MelroseKind social media. Tag MelroseKind in all of your kindness posts and follow us on Facebook and Instagram, too!