Celebrating Community Kindness
Nominate a friend, a teacher, a colleague, a favorite community leader or your mother!
United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region (UWDOR) is hosting the 2025 Kindness Champion event. Kindness is a powerful force that can transform lives. It's about empathy, compassion, and a willingness to help others, no matter how small the gesture. As quoted by Mark Twain, “Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see”. Every fall, UWDOR celebrates the individuals who are making a positive impact on our community through their acts of kindness. By choosing kindness, we create a more compassionate and harmonious world.
Nominations take place from July 1st to August 13th.
Contact Lauren Spangler at lspangler@uwdor.org if you have any questions.
Kindness is a gift everyone can afford to give.
Fill out the Nomination form below:
- Nominees must live, work or attend school in Dutchess or Orange Counties
- The Act of Kindness should impact Dutchess or Orange Counties
- No age restriction
- Nominees under the age of 18 must have parental permission
- Voting begins, August 20 at 9:00 AM
- You can share the link of your page on social media with family and friends!
- Voting ends September 11th promptly at 5:00 PM
- Voters may cast one free vote per day for any of our kindness champions
- Additional votes may be cast for a donation of $1 or more
- Winners will be determined by the highest number of votes received by September 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM.
- The winners will be announced at the Imagination Breakfast September 18, 2025
- Prize package for top 3 finalists includes a donation to a charity of winner's choice serving
Dutchess or Orange Counties and other exciting prizes - All finalists will receive a Kindness Champion certificate
- Top finalists will be featured at United Way's Imagination Breakfast on September 18th