Point Park’s Random Acts of Kindness club, Pioneers for Kindness, will be hosting Endure4Kindness along with the Knitting and Crotchet Club and the Table Top Tirade Club.  Students will gather pledges for every hour they knit, dance or game for as long as they can on Oct. 19 from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m, all of which will be donated to the Random Acts Foundation.

President of Pioneers for Kindness Jane McAnallen, who formed Pioneers for Kindness in 2013, hopes that the event will give off a friendly vibe and attract students of all departments.

Café worker Cherise Frison is not participating in the event directly, but she does enjoy the partnership that Pioneers for Kindness has with the café.

Tammy Sutton of the Knitting Club has been gathering pledges for the event in hopes that the club will knit for as long as they possibly can.

President, or as members of the club Table Top Tirade like to call her, “Madam President,” Emily Bowen plans on bringing an array of games ranging from Yahtzee to Cards Against Humanity.

The Random Acts Foundation is a non-profit organization that focuses on the positive impact that one individual has on another when he or she performs an act of kindness.

Participants from across the globe hold events that range from buying books for elementary school children to preparing meals for the homeless. The Endure4Kindness event encourages participants to collect pledges and pick an activity to continuously do in order to raise money for the foundation.

This will be Pioneers for Kindness’s second year as a club on campus and the first year that it will participate in the Endure4Kindness event.  Its mission on campus is to build a culture of kindness and to break down the barriers amongst departments.  Each week the club partners up with the café and randomly gives out a free lunch to one student.  The club will be holding several events throughout the semester such as reverse trick or treating and smile packages during finals week.

“I like the partnership we have with the kindness club because everyone needs a caring hand at times and it’s nice to be able to make someone’s day,” said Frison.

Tammy Sutton of the knitting club has an idea on how long she thinks she’ll be able to knit during this 24 hour event.

 “I was thinking like three hours because I know my hands will cramp up if I go any longer,” said Sutton.

 Table Top Tirades president Emily Bowen is relying on her club to come out in full force to game.

 “We usually all game together on Sunday nights anyways, so hopefully a lot of our members will turn out so maybe we can raise awareness of our club,” said Bowen. 

McAnallen is proud that Pioneers for Kindness has recruited members that are willing to host the event.

 “What I would really like to see from the event is dancing, knitting and playing games for hours and hours with people that may not know each other that well,” said McAnallen.