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#BuckeyeLove Pay Forward Challenge Instructions for Club and Society Members Let us showcase your club or society on social media! The university needs your help! We want to share stories of Buckeyes paying forwarding across the country on our social media channels. You could have your groups showcased on:
• The university or alumni Facebook page (Facebook.com/OSU, Facebook.com/OSUAA)
• The university or alumni Twitter page (@OhioState, @OhioStateAlumni) To participate, we’ll need you to download and print our pay forward cards, perform a pay forward opportunity (think random act of kindness), take a photo of the event and share the photo with us. Please send us your photo and story no later than Sunday, January 29, 2017.
1. Perform a pay forward opportunity, or random act of kindness. If you need ideas, we’ve provided a list below (page 3). You don’t have to use this list, feel free to get creative!
2. Take a photo representing the pay forward opportunity. Be sure to include the provided pay forward card (pdf attached)
3. Email the photo, and answers to the following questions, to Michelle Morgan, [email protected]
a. What is your name, graduation year and current location? b. Do you belong to an alumni club or society? If so, please share. c. What are your personal social media handles (Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram etc)? d. What pay forward opportunity did you perform? e. Is there anything else you’d like to share?
For example: Here is an example of what your photo(s) and content might look like in a social media post: Nikki provides photo(s)
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and:
a. What is your name, graduation year and current location? Nikki, 1978, NYC
b. Do you belong to an alumni club or society? If so, please share. Alumni Club of New York City
c. What are your personal social media handles (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc)? Facebook /nkanakkanatt, Twitter @nkanakk, Instagram @nkanakk
d. What pay forward opportunity did you perform? I brought in treats for my coworkers.
e. Is there anything else you’d like to share? I met my spouse at Ohio State, we’re both proud alumni!
We post:
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Pay forward acts of kindness ideas: • Pay for the beverage or food for someone else in line • Send a friend a hand written note in the mail to celebrate your friendship • Clean someone’s windshield in your parking lot • Send dessert to another table • Buy a student, co-‐worker or friend lunch • Write a thank you note to a Veteran • Bring in a healthy or unhealthy treat for your co-‐workers, classmates or friends • Buy flowers from a local vendor and randomly give them to someone • Donate to the Buckeye Food Alliance: http://www.buckeyefoodalliance.org/ • Distribute scarves, hats, gloves and umbrella’s to those in need • Let someone have your seat on a crowded bus or subway • Take care of the chores your partner, roommate or friend dislikes • Email or write to a current or former teacher or professor who made a difference
in your life. • On social media, send a genuine compliment to three people right now • Cook a meal, do a load of laundry or perform another task to help a fellow
Buckeye in need • Thank a public service worker (bus driver, police officer, mail carrier or sanitation
worker) • Play board games or cards with senior citizens at a nursing home • Send anonymous flowers to a fellow Buckeye • Clean your closet and donate items to a local cause • If you walk by a car with an expired meter, put a quarter in it