A week to amplify good humans leading kindness revolutions.
Experience Kindness Week on the We Are For Good Podcast / Nov. 2-6, 2020
Kindness Tip: Explore 50 easy ways you can conduct random acts of kindness in your part of the world. They don’t cost a penny!
Monday, Nov. 2
Gaining Ground Literacy
Meet Shotts & Kirby. They're teachers on a mission - a mission that completely gripped our hearts. If you love books, the Scholastic Book Fair or simply smile when you picture your favorite book as a child, then this episode is for you. They are driving their nonprofit bookmobile into metropolitan book deserts and changing everything about literacy in the process. "We have found a cure for something, and we just need to get it to the people." Books and teachers are really changing the world.
Tuesday, Nov. 3
MADabolic Washington D.C.
Meet Kamille, Eric & Corbin. They're three faces of a powerful Washington D.C. team who united a gym and a community around the change they wanted to see in the world. Hear how they channeled their passion for racial equality into an intense half-marathon training that ultimately raised $45K+ for a variety of DEI nonprofit organizations.Their unified commitment to do more than post hashtags had a far-reaching effect on their communities and themselves. It's an inspiring story of one group of ordinary citizens who banded together for the greater good.
Wednesday, Nov. 4
Keaton’s Kindness Foundation
Meet Holly. She's the mom of a truly incredible kid. Eight years ago, Keaton was diagnosed with leukemia, and while he battled this terrible disease, he thought about using his journey as a way to instill random acts of kindness into the world. And when he did, amazing things happened. After Keaton passed away in 2018 following a valiant battle, the Kindness Army didn’t slow down. In fact, their passion grew. And today, his legacy of love continues. Tune in as we embrace Keaton's goal to infuse more kindness, courage, compassion, and caring into the world in the spirit of fighting for a pediatric cancer cure.
Thursday, Nov. 5
Be Strong Story
Meet Kristi. She's a mama on a mission. What started as a lunchbox note of encouragement blossomed into a journey with others to build loving communities. We're talking about making a space for everyone at the table, and bringing children along on this philanthropy journey.
Friday, Nov. 6
The Birthday Party Project
Meet Paige. She loves an over-the-top party, and the thought that some kids may not be able to celebrate their birthday due to homelessness spurred her to gather community ensuring every child feels celebrated on their birthday. They're on the hunt for more birthday enthusiasts (hey, that could be you!) and sharing inspiring stories of hope that demonstrate parties are more than a celebration - they're a loud exclamation point that kids matter!
Why a Sponsor? Why ThankView?
Awesome, thanks so much for asking. You see, here’s what we believe. We can’t invite friends to mom’s kitchen table if they’re not willing to embrace her famous taco casserole. Translation: we’re not going to welcome partners to our table who don’t fully buy-in and represent the thing this Good Community is building.
They must buy into our pledge to value people and innovation equally, to seek justice and kindness in all things, and to walk genuinely and kindly toward making this world a better, more loving place. That’s our pledge to you, always. Which is why a partnership with ThankView was easily the most obvious first choice.
So ThankView is this super amazing tech startup focused on making outreach more impactful for nonprofits through personalized videos. Whether you’re creating sincere thank you's or spicing up event invites, it’s next level in terms of genuine donor engagement. We’ve used the platform in past jobs with huge success. In fact, it helped us up our stewardship personalization game big time. But that’s not the best part. The real magic was that they are Good Humans who had an amazingly kind story to share this week too.
Here’s a snapshot: following George Floyd’s death earlier this summer, ThankView’s founders were grappling with how to become active participants in creating positive change, so they did a wholly inspiring thing. They gave each of their employees $1,000 to donate to the charity of their choice and placed no restrictions on where it went. The result - 42 nonprofits around the world benefited from this incredible showmanship of generosity. Check out the full list here. As Kindness Week 2020’s presenting sponsor, we wanted to celebrate this compassionate show of philanthropy by having a couple ThankView employees share what it meant to pay this gift forward. So each time we hit the middle of any of these amazing episodes, do us a favor - don’t skip forward. You’ll be missing out on an incredibly inspiring story you didn’t know you needed to hear today.
We hope you enjoy them as much as we did.
If you’re curious about those videos, enjoy some Stewardship 2.0 level awesomeness here. Bravo, authentic storytelling champions!
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