SixDegrees.org is proud to announce the launch of Ruth’s Room, a groundbreaking initiative dedicated to creating purpose-driven spaces that foster connection, creativity and healing. Named in honor of Ruth Bacon, a passionate advocate for education and justice and mother of SixDegrees.org founder, Kevin Bacon, this initiative transforms underutilized spaces into vibrant hubs for change.

On Thursday, October 24, 2024, SixDegrees.org activated its Building Kits initiative in Newark, Del. The organization delivered 5,000 basic hygiene kits to Phoenix Family Resource Center and volunteered alongside community members to organize inventory and support neighbors in need. The hygiene kits delivered to Phoenix Family Resources contained a total of 45,000 items of care valued at $50,650.

On Friday, October 11, 2024, SixDegrees.org activated its Building Kits project in support of four organizations across Baltimore to distribute essential hygiene items to individuals experiencing homelessness and periods of unstable housing. Volunteers gathered to help load a series of trucks to distribute goods to Health Care for the Homeless, ShareBaby, Helping Up Mission, and Catholic Charities of Baltimore. The organizations shared that their allocations of these resources, 1,250 kits each, will be distributed within six weeks to their respective clients.

On Thursday, August 22, 2024, SixDegrees.org cultivated a powerful activation of its Building Kits initiative. In just three weeks time, they organized volunteers, procured over $250,000 worth of resources, and organized a meaningful volunteer activation for the build of 3,000 mental health resource kits for distribution to all attendees at the following week’s International Association of Fire Fighters convention and 150 for patients enrolled with the On-Site Academy , a short term, intensive residential treatment center for rescue personnel who may be temporarily overwhelmed by the stress of their job, suffering from work-related cumulative or delayed critical incident stress.

On Tuesday, July 2, 2024, SixDegrees.org facilitated a kit building event in Big Sky, Mont. Through our BKxKB project, Spanish Peaks members and residents joined us in their clubhouse to create 1,000 essential resource kits full of items for winter and summer for the full time residents that are largely living with government subsidies. The kits, containing a total of 67,568 items of care valued at $37,954, were distributed to Big Sky Community Food Bank.

On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, SixDegrees.org took part in Paramount’s Community Day. Through our BKxKB project, Paramount employees joined us to create 1,250 essential resource kits full of items of need and comfort. The kits were distributed to Fernando Pullum Community Arts Center, a local community arts program in Los Angeles that serves under-resourced youth in out-of-school time through inspiring arts instruction.

On Thursday, April 25, 2024, SixDegrees.org, in partnership with Bell Bank, activated its Building Kits program to create and distribute 1,000 essential resource kits for nonprofits in the Fargo, ND region. This partnership was part of Bell Bank’s Pay It Forward initiative that celebrates employee engagement and provides vital financial support to nonprofits across the country.

On April 20, 2024, Kevin Bacon, SixDegrees.org, Payson High School, and the greater Payson community banded together to assemble and distribute 5,000 essential resource kits to young people in need of resources throughout Utah, Colorado, and Nevada. They also teamed up with the Utah Film Commission in celebration of 100 years of film and television in Utah. This is part of SixDegrees.org’s initiative launched on Giving Tuesday to distribute 40,000 kits through their Building Kits by Kevin Bacon (BKxKB) program to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of “Footloose.” 

On Tuesday, March 12, 2024, SixDegrees.org created a powerful BKxKB activation in tandem with Artists for Actions’s summit at SXSW. Students from Just Keep Livin’ Foundation joined concert goers to create 2,000 essential resource kits for distribution to K-5th grade students at Title I schools in Austin, Texas.