2018 KindnessCollective Participants  

Marilyn Turkovich 

Charter for Compassion 

We support the emergence of a global movement that brings the Charter for Compassion to life. To do so, we are a network of networks, connecting organizers and leaders from around the world, providing educational resources, organizing tools, and avenues for communication; sharing lessons, stories, and inspiration; providing the umbrella of the Charter for Compassion for conferences, events, collaborations, conversations and initiatives to create compassionate communities and institutions.

Shirley Zink 

Simple Acts of Care and Kindness

The SACK foundation is focused on ensuring a better world--one built upon respect, chivalry, and goodwill--for many generations to come, through enriching lives by Simple Acts of Care and Kindness. SACK was founded in 1999 to generate and administer funds for the S.A.C.K. movement as well as for the annual World Kindness Youth Conference. Now, SACK develops materials and resources for teachers in schools and for students of all ages, inspiring a myriad of simple acts of care. 

Jennifer jines 

Kindagious   

Kindagious is a community where acts of kindness are celebrated and inspired.  Our goal is to build a kind world one act at a time, united behind the mission of “See the kind. Be the kind." The values and beliefs propagated by Kindagious are that kindness is universal and transcends national, religious, political and socioeconomic boundaries. Kindness leads to positive healthy human connection, builds trust, builds community, promotes physical and emotional health, and inspired kindness.  Kindness is needed by all – not just the lovable-- and kindness is the path forward for a peaceful harmonious world.

Morgan and Susan Guess

Guess Anti-Bullying Foundation  

The Guess Anti-Bullying Foundation was founded by mother and daughter duo, Susan and Morgan Guess, with the mission to create a kinder world by empowering young people to lift up their voices against bullying and for one another. The Guess Anti-Bullying foundation has become nationally recognized. They have been featured on CNN, co-wrote an opinion piece for the Huffington Post, and were part of a task force that established a statewide bill that explicitly defines bullying and now protects all 640,000 Kentucky public school district students.

Will Glennon

World Kindness USA

World Kindness USA is the peak national kindness body in the USA, and part of the greater global kindness movement. Will Glennon founded World Kindness USA, which recently celebrated its twentieth anniversary. Will also authored national bestselling book, Random Acts of Kindness, which inspired the creation of the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation, launched in 1995. He is currently Chairman of World Kindness, USA.

Learn more about Will here

Abel Caine

UNESCO

Abel Caine is the Senior Project Officer and Head of Youth and Communications for the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development. Read all about this incredible leader and his experiences here. The Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) is a UNESCO Category 1 Institute specialising in high-end research on innovative forms of education delivery with a focus on education for peace, sustainable development, and global citizenship.The Youth Programme aims to mobilize a critical mass of youth to massively engage high-quality, self-learning to confidently implement solutions as global citizens for peace and sustainable development. 

Ashley Raggio

Doing Good Together 

 Doing Good Together is a Minneapolis-based national non-profit that works to make volunteering and service, along with daily kindness, easy for every family. DGT was founded in 2004 on the belief that when parents engage with their children in community service, they pass along the spirit of giving and goodness to their sons and daughters, strengthen their families, and create a new generation of volunteers, philanthropists, and kind, caring adults.  Ashley is the Director of Doing Good Together Silicon Valley (a newly launched location for DGT).

Veronica Mollica  

Kindness Matters: A Program of The Kindness Solution

The Kindness Solution is a community movement and platform that believes that kindness is the solution to every challenge we face individually and collectively.  Kindness Matters is a program taught in schools to encourage children to accept and support each other and experience firsthand the profound power and impact of their thoughts, words, and actions, creating an environment based on inclusion and acceptance. Our goal is to send our children into the world with the operating principle of looking at every aspect of their lives through the lens of kindness.”

Paul Lamb 

Kindfulness 

Kindfulness offers a new approach to the practice of kindness, focusing specifically on kindness habits within the workplace. They offer training programs for businesses and organizations to help build practical and sustained practices of kindness at work. Kindfulness addresses the question "how can we be kinder to each other in tangible ways to make our work environment healthier, happier, and more productive?" 

Karen Palmer  

#GlobalKindness Going Viral

#Global Kindness Going Viral is dedicated to educating children and families about kindness, mindfulness, compassion, environmental issues, and animal advocacy.We empower individuals and schools through after school programs and assemblies using social media, books, games, toys, music, technology (online and offline programs). 

Gwen Lauren Meitchik 

The Great Kindness Challenge  

The Great Kindness Challenge is a proactive and positive bullying prevention initiative that improves school climate and increases student engagement. The Great Kindness Challenge is one week devoted to performing as many acts of kindness as possible on campus. Using the provided checklist of 50 kind acts, students accept the challenge and show the wold that KINDNESS MATTERS! This organization hopes to serve as many schools as possible during their annual kindness week, the next one being January 21-25, 2019 or the best week for your school! 

Steve Ulrich and Paula Cole 

Inspired2C 

Inspired2C is a 501c3 non-profit organization working to identify these simple, small actions that we can all take to create a better world. From everyday acts of kindness to reflecting on current issues, are meaningful steps that can strengthen relationships and the appreciation of humanity.  Paula is a long time advocate of youth mentoring and believes that we each can help create an inclusive and sustainable economy. Steve is a software engineer who is always looking for ways to use technology for the greater good.

Jon Ramer 

Compassion Games 

Compassion Games offers fun and creative ways to ignite and catalyze compassionate action in communities around the world. Survival of the Kindest is a community engagement experience that invites people around the world to inspire one another to reveal and promote acts of compassion that better our lives, our communities, and all life on Earth. In the annual Compassion Games, competition becomes coopetition as teams and individuals challenge one another to strive together to make our planet a better place to live through community service, acts of kindness, and raising monies for local causes. 

Michelle Larsen  

The Joy Team   

The Joy Team is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in Vancouver, Washington. The Joy Team began in 2009 when founder, Michele McKeag Larsen, and her daughter, Taryn Dehn Larsen, hit the streets of Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, setting out notes of encouragement and inspiration. Soon later their non-profit was founded. Their mission is to build community by spreading joy, optimism and inspiration. They carry out this mission through various projects, including putting up huge joy billboards, events, and partnerships with The Junior Joy Team and a partnership with Hough Elementary and the PB & Joy Project! 

Jacki James 

Kindness Matters  

Kindness Matters is a campaign designed to change the way people interact with each other. It is the legacy of 13 year old Peyton A. James, who took his life after years of bullying. In this world of technology and constant communication, it’s often difficult to escape the ridicule that seems to be everywhere. The purpose of Kindness Matters is to change the dialogue that takes place between people every day. Making a change on a global level is a challenge and it isn't something that only needs to be done in schools or in sound-bites. It is something that everyone, both young and old, can work together to accomplish.

Alyssa and Tiffany Antoci  

Strength Behind Stars   

Alyssa, a young children's author, co-founded the non-profit organization, Strength Behind Stars, the mission of which is to "build kinder schools by promoting tolerance, respect and self-esteem by changing the culture so that kindness becomes the new norm in our schools." The current initiative is the Ambassadors for Kindness Program which provides in classroom curriculum to Pre-K through fifth grade classrooms. Alyssa travels throughout California with her mother, Tiffany, speaking about her book The Purple Marble and promoting kindness among peers and in schools. The Purple Marble is already in 125 elementary schools and counting!  Alyssa is currently working on a young adult novel and hopes her book will be in as many schools and libraries as possible,

Shadi Pourkashef 

Ability Awareness Project
Kind and Safe Schools 

Learn to Stop Bullying is a program of Ability Awareness, that offers resources, original short videos, and information to teach children, educators, and parents how to combat bullying.  Their Parent/Educator resources offer help for adults to learn how to best respond to bullying and to learn to lead the next generation towards a more interconnected humanistic path. The vision of Learn To Stop Bullying  is to ensure that everyone is respectful and kind to one another and that no one suffers from social isolation and bullying. Shadi Pourkashef, is a teacher, composer, and a mother.  But not just any mother, one committed to  protect her son and all kids from the terrible ongoing peer bullying.  

• Mayor Tom Tait, Anaheim, City Of Kindness

• Bo Whittenton, Be Kind People Project

• Josephine and Virginia Mahoney, B Kind

• Jeannette Maré, Ben Bells

• Gabriella van Rij: #Daretobekind

• Jenny Friedman, Doing Good Together

• Dr. David Fryburg, Envision Kindness

• Alex & Dalton, Explore Kindness

• Toan Lam, Go Inspire Go

• Corey Harnish, Good Cards

• Marilyn Turkovich, Charter For Compassion

• Houston Kraft, Kelby Kilburn,Character Strong

• Dina Creiger, Choose to be nice

• Kala Shah, Community Heroes

• Jill McManigal, Great Kindness Challenge

• Joyce Deliyiannis, Emily Trask, Helpis

• Linda Cohen, 1000 Mitzvahs: How Small Acts of Kindness Can Heal, Inspire and Change Your Life 

• Random Acts of Kindness Foundation 

• Eric Wellens, Pay It Forward Foundation

• Jill Lubin, The Profit of Kindness

• Reba Riley, Project CityKIND

• Orly Wahba , Live Vest Inside

• Tara Ijai, Love Glasses Revolution

• Bob Votruba, One Million Acts of Kindness

• Ed Horrell, The Kindness Revolution ™  

• Veronica Mollica, The Kindness Solution

• Jaclyn Lyndsey, Kindness.org

• Grace Murdock, Kindness Bracelets

• Paula Cole, Inspired2C

• Leon Logothetis, Kindness Diaries

• Manny Moreno, KindnessIsBadAss

• Jill McManigal, Kids For Peace

• Blake Beattie, Pay it Forward Day

• Wayne Mueller, InCommon

• Jessica Walsh, Timothy Goodman  12KindsofKindness

• Laura Talmus, Beyond Differences

• Dawn Engle, Billion Acts

• Cynthia Germanotta, Maya Enista Smith , Born This Way Foundation

• Megan Hookey, Create the Good

• Bhoutik Mehta, Daily Good

• Shari Arison, Good Deeds Day

• Nancy Miller. good.is

• Maya Dubinsky, Goodnet

• Geri Weis-Corbley, Good News network

• Dacher Keltner, Greater Good

• Jim Lee, Happy Hollow School

• Marty Isaac, Hooplaha

• Sheeka (Strickland) Sanatoria, Humankind

• Sara Lahey, Hunting Happiness Project

• Brad Formsma, I like giving

• Barbara Stevens, The Josh Stevens Foundation

• Chuck Wall, KindnessUSA.org

• Birju Pandya, kindspring.org

• Erika Lantz, Kind World

• Betsy Peterson, Learning to Give

• Bert and John Jacobs, Life is Good

• Richard Weissbourd, Making Caring Common

• Jason Kingman, More Good Deeds

• Bill Strathmann, Network for Good

• Nicholas Carlisle, No Bully

• Joan Eschler, Positively Positive

• Ricky Smith, R.A.K.E

• Cinde Monsam, Random Acts

• Nipun Mehta, Service Space

• Carolyn Berna Dundee, Small Acts, Big Change

• Sandy Love, Support Kindness

• Penny Austen, ThinkGiveProject

• Anthony & Natalia Melikhov, unite4good.org

• Dalal Al-Waheidi, We Day

• Baaps Beauty, kindnessblog.com