The Kindness Cure Campaign Announces Groundbreaking Partnership With One Million Aok

Jan. 28, 2009 - PRLog -- The Healing Tree Foundation’s Kindness Cure Campaign is teaming up with the One Million AOK (Acts of Kindness) project to educate children and adults about the power of kindness. The One Million AOK project, the brainchild of motivational speaker Brian Williams, has shown great success in California schools, and the Healing Tree Foundation plans to bring the project to the east coast.  

“It’s so motivating teaming up with someone as enthusiastic about spreading kindness as Brian is,” said the founder of the Healing Tree Foundation and the Kindness Cure Campaign, CJ Scarlet.  “With our resources and programs combined, we will both be able to reach greater heights and accomplish even more than we dreamed.”

Like the Kindness Cure Campaign, One Million AOK’s mission is to document 1,000,000 random acts of kindness.  To achieve its goal, One Million AOK is challenging schools across the nation to document 5,000 random acts of kindness each, which can include anything from holding a door open for someone to planting a tree.  Each school chosen to participate in the project is be given a two-week supply of AOK journals in which students are asked to write about their experiences performing acts of kindness.  So far, Williams has documented more than 80,000 acts of kindness in California and Nevada schools.  The Healing Tree Foundation will help find North Carolina schools and other programs geared toward the development of children, to participate in the One Million AOK program.

About The Healing Tree Foundation
The Healing Tree Foundation was established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 2008 to fund programs whose mission is to create positive change through acts of kindness.  The Kindness Cure Campaign offers hope and inspiration during these troubled times by actively demonstrating how simple acts of kindness can transform the physical and mental health of individuals and society, and by creating a forum for people to share the impact of kindness toward themselves and others.  For more information about the foundation please visit http://www.healingtreefoundation.org, or to join the Kindness Cure Campaign visit http://www.thekindnesscure.org.

About Brian Williams and the One Million AOK
Brian Williams was born in Reno, Nevada. When he was four years old, his parents gave him a choice – gymnastics or martial arts.  He chose martial arts and achieved his 1st degree black belt by the time he was in the 5th grade, followed by his 2nd degree in 7th grade, and competed in numerous martial arts competitions on the west coast.

Brian attended the University of Nevada, Reno, seeking a degree in Business Marketing. As a college sophomore, he was accepted into a graduate level Marketing/Advertising competition that was typically open to only graduating seniors. He competed with the winning Marketing/Advertising team and was ranked the #1 Integrated Marketing /Advertising Student in the nation by the American Advertising Federation. He also achieved the Marketing Professional of the Year award for Northern Nevada in 2003.  Today, Brian resides in Reno, Nevada, where he lives his dream of impacting people’s lives through his motivational speaking. He has spoken to thousands of children, has been featured in several newspaper articles, and appeared on a full season of an MTV original series.

One of Brian’s instructors always said, “Kindness is the ultimate form of self-defense.” As Brian got older, he realized how important this advice really was. Because of this, he is seeking all children, adults, communities and cities to feel the effects of random acts of kindness.  With this mindset he is off to impact the world by showing people what 1,000,000 random acts of kindness really look like.

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HTF inspires people to act kindly and give generously in their communities. We provide inspiration by demonstrating how acts of kindness can transform the health of society and created a forum for people to share the impact kindness had on their lives.