Year Round Goodness & Partner Projects
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, our main focus is the annual celebration of Spread Goodness Day. But we don’t stop there! We take goodness to the streets year-round with fundraisers, random acts of kindness, and community programs We also feature other initiatives “spreading goodness” in the world!
4th Annual Celebrity Pie Smash
The Celebrity Pie Smash is returning for another smashing good time! On Friday, March 13th, from 4 to 6 PM, We will have a 16 local celebrities in our headquarters of Marquette, Michigan donating their faces to raise funds for Six Feet Over, A nonprofit organization that supports survivors of suicide loss in a variety of meaningful ways.
In conjunction with Pi(e) Day, celebrated annually on 3/14, we hosted a fundraiser with Peace Pie Company benefiting Spread Goodness Day. Local “celebrities” take their seats in a half hour increments, while spectators pay $5 to smash their favorite celebrity. Things have gotten creative with the offering that people can pay $5 to BLOCK a pie for someone and choose a different celebrity to pie in the face!
For 2022, funds raised were shared with Partridge Creek Farms to help fulfill our vision of supporting other organizations helping people “survive with more goodness.”
We did a bigger pie smash, auction style during our first annual Spread Goodness Gala in 2025, Raising around $2000 for Six Feet Over. They are a nonprofit that supports families affected by suicide.
Spread Goodness® Challenge
Their project is for teachers & a fresh way to spread goodness in school & classrooms. Start a ripple effect of goodness you can watch spread with their unique tracking web app.
Our friends at “The Spread Goodness® Challenge” created a technology tool for the classroom that encourages students to do something kind and unexpected for someone, share what they’ve done on the it online platform, and nominate others to participate.
Create a culture of compassion in your classroom and beyond with simple tools seamlessly implemented in 5 minutes a day or less!
By functioning as an age-appropriate social networking tool, it fosters positive feedback loops and inspires real life action among users.
To serve communities best, they created:
✨ Gamifying features kids enjoy
✨ Meaningful engagement tools, along with quick ’n easy implementation tips teachers appreciate
✨ A metrics dashboard and safety features administrators need
✨ SEL opportunities educators and parents collectively value.
Ready to join them for their Spread Goodness® Challenge? Click their link below and join the fun! The program is in its testing phase but is available to interested teachers, educators, and individuals now.
www.spreadgoodness.love
*This platform is not created, or managed, by the Spread Goodness Day organization. When you click the link you will be sent to their platform and team.*
Smile 2 Infinity
This is not our initiative but, created in the spirit of celebrating spreading goodness together via unique “challenge coins”. Smile 2 Infinity exists to increase awareness of positive intentions and actions, while understanding the impact of those intentions and actions on our world.
A challenge coin is given in a meaningful exchange between the presenter and recipient. A coin may be given away ceremoniously or informally. It is also common for a challenge coin to be exchanged within a handshake. Regardless of how the coin is passed, a bond is created, personal value is added to the coin, and the coin takes the next step in its journey.
Many coins change hands once or twice and end up in a display, on a desktop or placed in a keepsake box. Other coins go much further, pass through many hands, and gain more value with each exchange.
Challenge coins are given away by individuals, companies, and organizations. They are handed out by leaders, colleagues, or among friends. The coin is a keepsake, a reminder that represents something special. For some it represents achievement, the realization of a lifelong dream. For others, it is not only a reminder but a challenge, encouraged by tradition, and carried on by those who honor it. The value of each coin is defined by the journey it takes and the significance the coin holds to both, the person who gives it, and the person who holds it.
Each challenge coin is designed with symbols, words, or phrases specific to its cause. Future challenge coins will recognize, encourage & support the spreading of smiles, goodness & recovery!
Bundle Up Marquette
With our annual initiative “Bundle Up Marquette” we spread goodness & warmth with cozy clothes to our community for winter! ⛄️
We collect donations with gold boxes placed outside local businesses. Bennett Media Group in Marquette, Jimmy John’s & more have been partnered as collection sites.
For 2026, we are collecting donations from November 1st through November 24th
Saturday November 29th, from 10am - 5pm, community members can come “shop” the donations along the fence & park at Sandy Knoll Elementary School in Marquette! Take what you need to stay warm. There will be no media, no photos of people “shopping”.
Volunteers sort the donations at Bennett Media Group each year & than help us “dress the park” for shoppers. We organize the donations by category to make it feel like you can really “shop” for what you need instead of rifling through random items.
We have received, and given away, thousands of gently used, & new winter apparel. We request winter hats, gloves/mittens, warm socks, jackets, boots, snow pants/suits, scarves.
Anything that is left over after our day of free shopping goes directly into another community winter clothing drive of choice. This 2025, we donated leftover jackets to the Ripple Effect NMU.
The Goodness Garden
A children’s book about the power of spreading goodness.
Written by retired schoolteacher, Sue Meier and her niece, Megan Calderon, along with the talented Aaron Giannoni as the illustrator, The Goodness Garden is about the founder of Spread Goodness Day and her “special sun-shaped seeds" that make the world a brighter place. Sue has participated in our annual Spread Goodness Day enthusiastically for six years, Bringing our celebration to multiple schools and classrooms in her city!
Sue and Megan are passionate about Anna’s story and her purpose for Spread Goodness Day: to make the world a better place. This book will help share her vision with the next generation and advocate for children's literacy.
We believe kindness is the single most powerful thing we can teach our children. We are confident this book will be a powerful addition to spread goodness every day!
Other Projects
We are always finding new ways to spread goodness to various nonprofits, individuals and events. We have sponsored a dog using funds raised selling “good girl & good boy” custom bandannas for a local animal shelter.
We created custom T-shirts & raised money for Courage Incorporated, who provide free all-inclusive outdoor wilderness excursions to individuals and veterans with physical disabilities, and to those living with chronic/terminal illness, in an effort to help them get into the woods and get on the water.
Over the last 8 years, it has been our playful pleasure to find special, every day ways to spread goodness. From leaving “If you find me, I’m yours” surprise bouquets around town to dancing for kindness to park/city clean-ups and more!
Spread Goodness Day IS every day and we have the choice, and endless power, to find opportunities to change the world with good.
