2016: A Year in Review (photo slideshow)
2016 RAF Year in Review 2016 was an INCREDIBLE year here at Random Acts of Flowers. Thank you to everyone who supported our mission of delivering hope!
Success Story: Larsen Jay (Thoughtfulicious, 1.8.2017)
Success Story: Larsen Jay "Many have written about Larsen Jay and his now nationally-present charity Random Acts of Flowers. However, as it often happens with success, we only see the tip of the iceberg – the end-result, the success – but are not privy to the rest of the story. What happens before success is achieved [...]
Meet RAF’s New(ish) Communications Chameleon, Christina Scott Sayer
Meet RAF's New(ish) Communications Chameleon, Christina Scott Sayer I discovered Random Acts of Flowers about a year ago as I was searching for employment at nonprofit organizations in Knoxville, TN (where I knew I would be moving in the late spring). I had never heard of RAF before, but I was immediately enamored of the simplicity [...]
Modern Luxury Silicon Valley: On the Scene (February 2017)
Modern Luxury Silicon Valley: On the Scene (February 2017)
Giving flowers to the sick and elderly (American Voices with Senator Bill Bradley, SIRIUS XM)
Giving flowers to the sick and elderly. Larsen Jay tells Senator Bill Bradley about Random Acts of Flowers.
100 nursing home residents get flower delivery surprise (WTHR, Indianapolis, 12.23.16)
100 nursing home residents get flower delivery surprise Every single resident of an Indianapolis nursing home received a holiday bouquet Friday morning. Volunteers from Random Acts of Flowers delivered the arrangements to residents at the North Capitol Avenue Nursing home - all 100 of them. Cathy Poole was on her first delivery with the non-profit [...]
Random Acts brightens day for seniors (WBIR, Knoxville, 12.23.16)
Random Acts brightens day for seniors Volunteers with Random Acts of Flowers delivered hundreds of poinsettias to people in the Knoxville area on Friday. They stopped at four hospitals and three senior centers, delivering 600 poinsettias in all. The tropicals were donated by greenhouses in the area as well as members of the community. Among [...]
Echievement Award for RAF Founder and CEO, Larsen Jay (eTown, Boulder, 12.20.16)
Echievement Award for RAF Founder and CEO, Larsen Jay Every so often, we like to reach out to a past [echievement] award winner, to see what they've been up to...Well, lucky us, Larsen happens to be passing through eTown and he joins us now to tell us how things have evolved - HEAR THE FULL [...]
Rescued flowers brighten days for Indianapolis patients (WTHR, Indianapolis, 12.20.16)
Rescued flowers brighten days for Indianapolis patients Most people love a surprise, at least one that makes you smile or feel better. But it's just as fun when you're the one making someone else's day. "Flowers always lighten up my life. How could they not lighten up the people who get them?" said one volunteer. [...]
Simple Gifts: An Interview with RAF Donor Ruth Onesi
Simple Gifts: An Interview with RAF Donor Ruth Onesi For Ruth Onesi, it would be a more than eight-hour drive from her home in Niagara Falls, NY, to our nearest branch in Indianapolis, IN. And, despite that her donations deliver hope and encouragement to people she will never meet in cities she may never visit, [...]