August 19th, 2008
About Us
WARNING: DOING ONE NICE THING CAN BE HABIT-FORMING. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Are Mondays tough?
Sure. Feel better by doing at least one nice thing for someone to start the new week right.
Do one nice thing every Monday.
Join us. Become a Nice-oholic. We'll tell you how, and who else is doing nice things. We want to hear your nice ideas too. Sign up for our emails. That's good news in your inbox twice a month, free of course! And we'll send you a gift.
Helping feels good. You could get hooked!
A uniter, not a divider, we embrace everyone. Working together, it's amazing what we can achieve!
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Here are a few examples of what we have accomplished on DoOneNiceThing Mondays since we started in June 2005:
- One hundred fifty thousand pounds (that's 75 TONS) of school supplies have been sent to U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, who give them to local children so they can study.
- More than 4,000 blankets have been sent to U.S. soldiers in Iraq, who requested them for local people living without electricity or heat.
- More than 10,000 hand-made cards have cheered hospitalized children in Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle, Memphis, Boston, St. Louis, Houston, New York, Miami, Detroit, Tucson, Richmond, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Jerusalem, KwaZulu Natal (South Africa), Rwanda and Baghdad.
- Thousands of breakfast bars, school supplies, toys, games and art kits have been given to needy American families.
- Thousands of books have been given to schools, libraries and children's hospitals.
- Numerous people registered to become organ donors.
- Tens of thousands of cans of food, frozen turkeys, packages of pasta and other food items were donated to food banks for Thanksgiving and throughout the year.
- Hundreds of dolls, games, and other holiday gifts were donated for seriously ill children.
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Our Nice-oholics are in 88 countries!
Abu Dhabi, Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Denmark, East Timor, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Liberia, Macedonia, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, UK, USA, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vietnam and we're still growing...
Address: Do One Nice Thing, 149 S. Barrington Ave., #279, Los Angeles, CA 90049-3310.
Debbie Tenzer, DoOneNiceThing.com Founder
Debbie Tenzer started looking for nice things to do every Monday to counter the "Monday Blues", and she got hooked. Known as the "Do One Nice Thing Lady" on popular radio stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle and around the U.S., she is often heard on DoOneNiceThing Mondays. She has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Times of Indiam MSN India, HappyNews.com and on the BBC, Sirius Satellite Radio, NPR, CNN and Fox News Channel.
John Michael Pugsley, Art Director
John is a graphic/product designer. He worked at Disney before starting his own design firm in 2002. He designs unique logos, corporate identities and packaging and has won several international awards. His design website is jmpdesign.
Scott Mora, Webmaster
Scott's firm, Trademark 5150, produces extraordinary websites for films, video games, sports and much more. He specializes in creating sites with excellent navigation and design, as well as flash development and flash video.
To our members: Thank you. Together, our small acts are creating big results.
If you haven't joined us yet, come on! We need you.