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One Act of Kindness Can Spark an Entire Movement

In 2017 a 20-year old Texan man named Justin Corva was noticed by driver Andy Mitchell walking along the road in nearly 100-degree heat. Mitchell offered Corva a ride. After asking why Corva was walking in extreme temperatures, Corva told Mitchell he was commuting 3 miles to and from his job, Taco Casa, by foot, to save up for a car. The positive attitude and tenacity Corva exuded inspired Mitchell to take action. He snapped a selfie with Corva and shared it on Facebook with the following message: "To all the people that say they want to work but can't find a job or don't have a vehicle all I can say is you don't want it bad enough!" Post by Andy Mitchell . These actions started a positive chain reaction. The owner of Samee’s Pizza Getti, Samee Dowlatshahi, saw the post and put a donation box inside his restaurant to collect funds for a car. Danny Rawls, sales manager of Toyota Rockwall and Dowlatshahi’s friend, then learned of ...

Paying It Forward One Slice At A Time

When we think of  random acts of kindness  we often think of individuals stepping up to help other individuals in our neighborhood. However, sometimes  acts of kindness  happen from businesses as well. Take a look at this  social responsible company  and how they used their product to impact thousands of people in their community. Rosa’s Fresh Pizza in Philadelphia owned by Mason Wartman, feeds the cities growing homeless population through the act of paying it forward. Rosa customers have the opportunity to pre-pay $1.00 for a sticky note. These post-its,with hand-written words of love and inspiration from customers, are then placed on the walls inside the shop where homeless community members are welcome to come in and redeem a note for a hot fresh slice of pizza at any time. "We don't always have a chance to come in and get fresh, hot food whenever we can. And for people to donate money towards slices of pizza for us really made a chan...