Here You Go is a Pittsburgh-based community project that gives out yellow umbrellas to people caught in the rain and asks them to pay forward the kindness by doing something nice for someone else.

Stamped, waterproof postcards are attached to each umbrella for recipients to report their act of kindness back to Here You Go. Returned postcards are showcased here so you can watch the kindness continue!
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Our first response! What an exciting experience to receive our first postcard from our self-funded pilot with 50 umbrellas while we are in the middle of our fund raising efforts to hand out 1000! This postcard has reminded me why I have undertaken this project. If we attached an unending piece of string to the back of every person on earth that followed them and traced their paths, imagine the massive tangle in which we’d all find ourselves! The postcard responses reflect the path of that string after the umbrella reaches the hand of the recipient. It is our simple attempt to illuminate our connectedness. #1

Our first response! What an exciting experience to receive our first postcard from our self-funded pilot with 50 umbrellas while we are in the middle of our fund raising efforts to hand out 1000! This postcard has reminded me why I have undertaken this project. If we attached an unending piece of string to the back of every person on earth that followed them and traced their paths, imagine the massive tangle in which we’d all find ourselves! The postcard responses reflect the path of that string after the umbrella reaches the hand of the recipient. It is our simple attempt to illuminate our connectedness.

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  1. texburgher reblogged this from hereyougo and added:
    donate to Julie’s Here You Go, I hope you’ll consider giving a few bucks to support her inspiring endeavor
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