# Pay it Forward

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/pay-it-forward/
- Published: 2013-01-10T17:07:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The story of how an idea became a movement in the US, and then spread internationally.
One good turn deserves another. It’s a revolutionary idea.**

Catherine Ryan Hyde’s international sensation, _Pay It Forward_, is the story of
Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy who accepts his social studies teacher’s 
challenge to come up with a plan to change the world.

Trevor’s idea is simple: do a good deed for three people and ask them to “pay it
forward” to three others who need help. He envisions a vast movement of kindness
and goodwill spreading beyond his small California town and across the world.

The book was made into a film.

  **Pay It Forward Day** is on 28 April. It was [marked in the UK in 2016](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/04/28/pay-forward-day-invites-good-deeds/).

More at the [Pay It Forward Foundation](https://vyoon.com/pay-it-forward/).

## Reviews

“The philosophy behind this book is so intriguing, and the optimism so contagious…
a book that lingers long after the last page”
**Denver Post**

“Hyde’s book delivers a profound vision: The simple magic of the human heart”
**
San Francisco Chronicle**