33 Acts of Kindness

Project 33 is coming into it's third year of service and in honor of this milestone, we are challenging all of our loyal volunteers and new friends to complete 33 acts of kindness on your own this year. This might include a day serving food to the homeless, taking a shelter animal for a walk, or just buying coffee for the person in line behind you. The best part, you don't even have to be in Reno to participate in this event. You can give back any where you are.


You will find a discussion post on the Project 33 Group Page. This discussion post will be a place for you to record your acts of kindness, keeping track of how many you do and also sharing ideas so we can all join in with new things we may not have thought of before. In addition to logging your hours here, post on your facebook page and/or the Project 33 Group page what you did and how others can do it too.

You are welcomed to wear your Project 33 shirt, if you have them, to these individual events and represent our amazing group, encouraging others to join in.

Lets make 2011 about planting the seed of giving in more people through our own individual good deeds.

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Change Our World, Explore Our World

Project 33 and Cadets is growing by leaps and bounds!  It is so exciting to see how many people there are who want to make a difference in the lives of others! And sharing it with our kids makes it even better!  In order to make Cadets more flexible, we've decided to make some changes in order to allow more families into the fold!

We are doing away with monthly meetings and instead will be creating "Change Our World" (or C.O.W.)charitable events and outings.  Each month a family will be in charge of arranging these events or outings, which can be anything from visiting a shelter to putting together care packages for the troops.  The Greene family has arrange our first outing: a trip to the Reno Ronald McDonald house where our Cadet families will take baked goods for the residents and get a tour of the facilities.

We will still be doing monthly themed outings in order to expose our Cadets to the world and all the fascinating things in it.  These are our "Explore Our World" (or E.O.W.) outings.  We will visit museums, various religious organizations, find out about different branches of science, genres of art, and so much more!  There will be a monthly newsletter to go with our theme where the Cadets can go to different websites to play games or print out coloring pages based on our theme!



We are very excited about these change and we hope that they will help Project 33 and Cadets reach more people who want to make a difference for others and our world!

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Share Your Christmas Food Drive

Project 33 was on hand last Friday to help out with the "Share Your Christmas Food Drive" at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno.  It was especially exciting because Kasey and Project 33 were interviewed for the event on KTVN Channel 2 news by Kristen Remington! 

Here are a couple of pics of the group sorting food at the end of the drive.

All in all, the food drive collected more than 178,000 pounds of food for Northern Nevada families!

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Caroling at The Seasons

Last year, when a lot of us were a Girl Scouts Daisy troop, we sang Christmas carols for the residents of The Seasons Assisted Living home here in Reno.  It was by far our favorite outing of the year, so when we started Cadets, we knew that we had to include this in our holiday charity events.  And the experience this year was just as wonderful as the first!

There is a beautiful living room/foyer when you first come into The Seasons.  Here we are waiting to go carol:

The amazing songbooks Mr. Kasey put together for us!

Ms. Val keeping the Cadets occupied with stories!

Singing carol to the happy residents.  Thanks Mr. Kasey for playing guitar for us!

The best part was after caroling, when the Cadets went around and met with the residents and handed out our blankets.  You could tell they were really happy to have children there to visit them!



We will be back at The Seasons next year to carry on our favorite holiday tradition!



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1st Annual Giving and Grub Get-Together

We had our first Cadets Christmas potluck last night at the Kersch house.  Because we want to focus on teaching the Cadets charity (especially during the holiday season), we decided to make our party about giving back instead of exchanging gifts.  We decided to make fleece tie blankets to hand out to the residents in the memory ward at The Seasons assisted living home when we head over there Monday to sing carols.   Every family really stepped up to the plate and brought enough fleece to make 14 blankets, one for every resident in the memory ward! 

The dads even helped out!

Kasey took the kids aside to teach them the carols we'll be singing Monday!

We are all really looking forward to caroling at The Seasons on Monday!  Those of us who were Daisies last year agree that it was our favorite outing of the year, and I know it will be a wonderful experience this year as well! 

Thanks again to the Kersch family for hosting The Giving and Grub Get-Together!

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