-We aim to combat loneliness by bringing people together to socialize. We hope to see lasting friendships formed as a result of our events.
-Events are a great way for us to meet and thank our amazing supporters in person
-Events help us support local businesses
We like to surprise people! Sometimes if we see a person having a bad day, we’ll do something unexpected to make them smile.
We also like to do acts of kindness without knowing who the recipient will be! Our founder started this organization with very simple cheap acts of kindness. For example, leaving a $1 bill and a note in the soda cooler at the Dollar Tree. Even when funds are low, we do what we can. Every penny we have is put to good use!
We use Facebook a lot and we love our followers! We try to keep them entertained, engaged and smiling. Maybe we’ll even inspire them to do their own acts of kindness and then we have more awesome people helping us fulfill our mission.
We are often inspired by the kindness of other people. We like to recognize these people! Hopefully the recognition makes them smile and encourages them to continue to “keep delco smiling“ in their own unique way.
We love to give away gift cards to local restaurants and businesses. Here’s why:
-It is a multi faceted approach! We make the recipient of the gift card smile and hopefully they tip generously when they go out and they make their server smile too
-We like to spend our money here in Delco
-We like to get people out of the house and encourage them to try new places
-We like helping businesses gain new customers
We also like to donate to other local non-profit organizations, especially ones that involve animals!
We rely on donations to fund our organization. We started out as a self-funded organization, but our Board of Directors is made up of working-class people with limited extra spending money. There's only so much we can do with our own funds, so we dedicate a lot of time to fundraising.
Sometimes we luck out and find amazingly generous people that are excited to donate just because they strongly support our mission... but most of the time we have to get creative and raise funds in a way that makes it fun for our potential donors.
If you have suggestions for fundraising, or if you'd like to volunteer to help at a fundraiser, we would love to hear from you!