Alumni of the WDM Leadership Academy embraced the program’s priority of positively impacting the community when they created this initiative in 2021. They recognize the importance of kindness, now more than ever. Small acts of kindness can make the biggest difference in someone’s life. 

Day of Kindness has since gone statewide with Governor Kim Reynolds and West Des Moines Mayor Russ Trimble, past WDMLA graduate, signing proclamations. We look forward to this again this year.

We challenge all West Des Moines community members and Iowans everywhere to be intentional with acts of kindness on January 27, 2023. 

Pay it forward in your line for coffee, show appreciation for our frontline workers, shovel a neighbor’s driveway, send a thoughtful text to someone who might need some positive words.