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Knoxnews.com: Random Acts of Flowers Moves into New Facility

August 26, 2015|

Knoxville News Sentinel By:  Carly Harrington Armed with buckets of donated flowers and a little more elbow room, a team of volunteers at the recently expanded Random Acts of Flowers facility is working toward delivering the organization’s 50,000th floral arrangement to area health care facilities. [...]

WVLT: Random Acts of Flowers Delivers Deliberate Smiles

August 21, 2015|

Local8now.com By:  Marco Villarreal KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- It's hustle and bustle. Deconstructing flower arrangements donated by floral shops, and families after weddings and funerals. "We're taking these beautiful flowers that were bound for the trash heap, and which are still very beautiful as you can see, [...]

Daily Journal: A Simple, Gentle Gesture

August 17, 2015|

By: Bill Silverfarb The Daily Journal The gift of flowers is a timeless gesture and its done randomly by a local nonprofit with kindness in mind. Earlier this month, Menlo Park-based Random Acts of Flowers reached a major milestone, receiving its 100,000th vase donation, which [...]

Chicago Tribune: RAF to Collect Vases Sunday

July 28, 2015|

By: Ronnie Watcher Pioneer Press Larsen Jay can make the idea of bringing glass vases to the Buffalo Grove Farmers Market on Sunday sound like a matter of course. "Think of it as a food bank, for flowers," he said of the nonprofit group that [...]

Random Acts of Flowers: Turning Garbage Into Grins

May 12, 2015|

MakeItBetter.net By: Melanie Kalmar Larsen Jay doesn’t know anything about flowers, other than how happy they made him feel after a near-fatal accident left him confined to a hospital room. The Knoxville, Tenn., native and former film and TV producer—“Erin Brockovich” is among his credits—was [...]

Chicago Tribune: Group Harnesses Flower Power to Deliver Smiles

May 1, 2015|

By: Christine Wolf Driving up to the quiet, industrial building on Evanston's Greenleaf Avenue, I realize I really need to pay closer attention, for the building's exterior offers little hint of the magic within. Inside, a seamless orchestration of weekly volunteers deconstructs and reassembles hundreds [...]

The Almanac: Flowers Repurposed to Spread Cheer

April 30, 2015|

By: Kate Daly | Special to the Almanac Random Acts of Flowers will celebrate the opening of the Silicon Valley branch at 1 p.m. Thursday, April 30, at Lytton Gardens, 437 Webster St. in Palo Alto. This is the organization's first move to the West [...]

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