Grand Junction, Colorado Elementary Students Recognized for Kindness

It’s always nice to see communities come together to help out others in need, or even just share love and kindness, and recently, an elementary school in Grand Junction, Colorado, has been recognized and praised for thousands of these kind acts.

Grand Junction, Colorado’s Broadway Elementary Recognized for Kindness

Broadway Elementary in Grand Junction, Colorado, recently completed a fundraising campaign to collect the necessary funds to upgrade the school’s playground.

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Once it was completed, the students and faculty participated in another campaign to thank the donors, which they called Raise Craze.

The Raise Craze campaign saw the students spread kindness to not only the donors but everyone around them, culminating in 2,000 acts of kindness in just two weeks.

Grand Junction, Colorado Elementary Students + Spreading Kindness

Students from Broadway Elementary spread kindness by doing things like volunteering at Food Bank of the Rockies, putting together “sunshine baskets” for patients at St. Mary’s Cancer Center, making similar baskets for residents at a local retirement home, participating in the Grand Valley River Cleanup, writing thank-you notes to first responders, and baking cakes for the school’s custodians.

After logging 2,000 acts of kindness, Broadway Elementary put 2,000 pinwheels on the school’s front lawn to commemorate the achievement.

The students’ efforts have been recognized by Colorado Public Radio, Colorado Governor Jared Polis, and numerous others for this remarkable act of spreading joy and kindness.

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The fundraising campaign that inspired the kindness campaign was more than successful, with donations received by the school from donors from all 50 states.