JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — This spring, People Spread Love (PSL) has organized its pilot project, “PSL Starter Kit Program,” beginning with a giveaway next week.
The PSL program empowers community volunteers to participate at home, in the classroom, or in a community setting with basic supplies and necessary instruction to ignite curiosity in this act of writing letters. The kit provides volunteers with all they need to write “notes of love” to those that are facing adversity all across the country.
The kits include card paper, ready-made cards, envelopes, mailers, a Love Ambassador card, one-page Love Templates, Love Slips, postage stamps, stickers, an activity sheet, a coloring book page, a pen, and a PSL pencil. Ample enclosed instruction will encourage them to participate as an official Love Ambassador and an option to attend a Virtual Volunteer Event that can guide them further.
To sign-up for a Starter Kit fill out a Volunteer Confidentiality Agreement and request to “Pick up a Starter Kit in Jackson, WY.” All volunteers who take a kit must be signed up so they may send them a follow-up survey to collect data on the effectiveness of the kits so PSL may improve upon them next year.
On Wednesday, May 11 between 10:30am and 1:30pm the kits will be ready to pick up at Powderhorn Park. For those already signed up, come by Powderhorn Park to claim your kit.
Founder and love ambassador Heather DeVine says, “Volunteers are still needed to help assemble, sort, and organize the pick-up of the starter kits. They will also be able to take a kit home with them at the end of the volunteer opportunity.”
Community Foundation of Jackson Hole helped with funding the Starter Kit program. The project is also funded in part by an Arts For All grant provided by the Town of Jackson and Teton County.
“A very special thanks to Emily Gomez with One22 for translating our instructions to broaden our reach of love and kindness,” DeVine shares.
A key component of the starter kit is the curation of budding artists. Ready-made cards, stickers, an activity sheet, and coloring book page are the work of Little Scout Creative, Bird and Buffalo, Jenny Dowd, Barking Goat Studios, Evol-eye, and Holly Sage Art.
“And a special additional artist, our winner of our PSL Art Contest, Cady Gregg, a 15-year-old from Salt Lake City, Utah,” DeVine adds. “Her artwork was adapted for a PSL greeting card and those are also included in the kits.”
