ABOUT
Good Deeds Day: the story, the vision and the facts

Good Deeds Day is an annual celebration of good deeds. All over the world, hundreds of thousands choose to volunteer and help others, putting into practice the simple idea that every single person can do something good, be it large or small, to improve the lives of others and positively change the world.Good Deeds Day will take place March 10, 2013.

Click here to watch a video about Good Deeds Day.

Shari Arison

Businesswoman and philanthropist Shari Arison, owner of Arison Group, fuses business and philanthropy to apply social and commercial investments that are foremost moral and conscious. Shari is committed to being a catalyst for bringing about positive change in the world.

Acknowledging Shari’s commitment and continuous activity to create positive change, Shari has been repeatedly ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the world’s most powerful women. She also made the list of the world’s greenest billionaires.

Activate Your Goodness

Activate Your Goodness is a practical guide for doing good for yourself and others, offering you inspiration for immediate improvement of your own life and the lives of those around you. Author Shari Arison, visionary businesswoman and philanthropist, is candid about her own personal stories and also provides examples from others who have made a difference by thinking, speaking, and doing good.

The unexpected and delightful insight that emerges from the book shows that when you find a way to do good for others, you also do good for yourself. This is a book to share with your loved ones and those who are partners in your desire to create a better world for future generations.

Activate Your Goodness is now available everywhere books are sold.

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What's your way to Good Deeds Day? Join a worlwide community of good doers to pump up the volume of good.

MARCH 9, 2014

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THIS IS YOUR SPOT

Meredith Grabek

Be courteous on the road

David Leonardelli

Help a friend in need

Katie Siobhan

Halifax, West Yorkshire

To promote positive mental health and continually challenge stigma and discrimination.

Kate Baker

Choose to be happy

Suzy Schneider

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Remember St. Jude Children's Hospital throughout the year.

Joanne Schiavone

Toledo, Ohio

Adopt a pet from the animal shelter

Liz Hershberger

Think positively

Carol Fleming

Help a friend in need

Newton Magalhães

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

Carry a reusable bag for shopping

Iris Binger

Keep an elderly person company

Alisa Rudy

Be courteous on the road

Martine Lazarus Alter

Great Neck, New York

Make sure to turn off all unneeded lights

Naba Kumar

Teach someone something new

Paloma Chávez Sandoval

Río Bravo, Tamaulipas

Donate blood

Rahul Ramrakhyani

Ahmedabad, India

Spend time with mother

Ramona Damron

Willard, Kentucky

Mentor a Child

Cindy Wood-Hofmann

Dublin, California

Keep an elderly person company

Patricia MacDonald

Ask a loved one how their day was

Maria Starkey

Adopt a pet from the animal shelter

Pacita.

Choose to be happy

Lisa Marie

Corfu, New York

Connect with someone you've not done so with in awhile!

Helen Von Rapacki

Hold the door open for a stranger

Melody Belliveau

Wilsonville, Connecticut

Donate used clothing to charity

Morgana Strozzi

Guastalla, Italy

Adopt a pet from the animal shelter

Ann Fowler

Caerphilly

Teach someone something new

Jessica Schmaltz

Illinois City, Illinois

Raise awareness for CHERUBS...Babies born with CDH

Silvina Coria

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Choose to be happy

Sandy Hills

Detroit, Michigan

Perform a random act of kindness for a stranger in need.

Guðlaug Cox

Hafnarfjörður

Recycle plastic bottles, paper and batteries

Karla Nestor-Mallen

Rock Springs, Wyoming

Make someone laugh

Christine Markbalan

sow the seeds of happiness wherever I go

Uwe Paschen

Tîmia, Agadez, Niger

Restore balance to our environment and stop all pollution caused by human mismanagement and abuses. Clean up past pollution and restore compromised ecosystems. Learn, educate and grow wiser.

Val Vickery

Be a better friend

Jennifer Hite

Bee Spring, Kentucky

Ask a loved one how their day was

Montserrat Homs

Guadalajara, Jalisco

Bake a cake for a neighbor just 'cause

Hannah Wojno

Buy Fair Trade products

Marcia Margrave

Manteca, California

Be an intense prayer warrior for my family and friends.

santu ghosh

Jamshedpur (Tata Nagar), India

Make someone laugh

Stephanie G

To create Joy for others daily!

Kelley Stewart

Make someone laugh

I pledge to continue to do good deeds daily, both for loved ones and colleagues, as well as strangers. This is a beautiful cause, but please keep the message in your hearts for ALL days, because that is the message that they are trying to send, and we can all do our parts and make the world nicer, together.

Norma Breckon

Abilene, Texas

Send greeting cards to cheer people up!

Casey Cole

Amarillo, Texas

Thank a friend for being amazing

Mary Beth Bobeck Muir

New Orleans, Louisiana

Help because I can

Dawn Stanley

Lynchburg, Virginia

Smile all day

Joy Meredith

Chicago, Illinois

Be the change you want to see in the world

Donna Woods-Clements

Spring Valley, Illinois

Commit to every day making someone happier.

Crissie Coniglio

Choose to LOVE in whatever situation I am in through my words and actions

Daniella Yermyiev

Portland, Oregon

adopt a sheltered dog, pray i'll get through school with above average passing grades! give me time with my daughter and find a cure for her extreme short stature. take time for yourself to think. get enough sleep. meditate, do yoga, excerise and GO TO THE DOCTOR'S WHEN YOU NEED TO!

Tobi Quist Heroux

Chicopee, Massachusetts

Donate blood

Sajah Khan

Karachi, Pakistan

Bike everywhere to cut down on fuel

Rachel Hernandez

Choose to be happy

Frank Lamanna

Norwalk, Connecticut

Select a pledge OR type your own cogradulate my wife

Sue Stepanek

Compliment a stranger

Brianna Yanqui

Stamford, Connecticut

Make someone laugh