State of New Jersey, Department of Education

How to Expand this Project

Use the payitforwardfoundation.org web site to find ideas about ways to Pay It Forward. In addition, we suggested the following:

  • Create a setting in which the project can grow throughout the year, with the culmination activity taking place in late spring. Students begin in September with viewing “Pay It Forward” and end in late May or early June.

  • Create a Community Ideas Handout (possible ideas for kindness, etc.)

  • Extending and deepen the project throughout the school year so the children can acquire a new meaning of the "Pay It Forward" concept.

  • Expand the project into the entire student body through the use of the bulletin board in the main hallway, intercom sharing, and use of our electronic message board.

  • Share "Pay It Forward" ideas and projects via e-mail, the internet and visit other schools.