Today is "Random Acts of Kindness Day" (RAK). We love all kinds of kindnesses being shared, but KindWorks is more about the "not-so-random-acts-of kindness"

Kazi Mannan, an immigrant to the United States from Pakistan, owns a restaurant called Sakina Halal Grill, a few blocks from the White House in Washington DC. But the restaurant is anything but typical.

Christmas day, 2020. We've all seen them on our drives or runs - the tents that dot our capital city, under bridges and on the sides of the road. We may have thought to ourselves

It's 'nice' to care about issues in our community; a feeling to want to help is 'nice'. But 'nice’ needs a nudge to make it ‘kind’. On a blustery October day, Monica was driving along

Sometimes we get caught up in the enormity of the world's problems -- there is SO much hunger, poverty, injustice, displacement, inequality --

Sharing a kind gesture can be as easy as goldfish and gatorade 🙂. We love this idea that our Board chair Denise is doing -

The KINDdemic and KindWorks was live this morning on ABC 7 News - WJLA. Here’s the segment if you’d like to see it

Nooreen's grandfather came to the US from India 55 years ago and worked hard to fulfill the American dream. Recently, when her grandmother decided to downsize

Meet Mariam. She's a Syrian refugee who fled her home when the war started; her 10 siblings were separated in the process - five stayed in Syria, and she

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand

We are thrilled to report that the KINDdemic is going viral! It's spreading at an uncontrollable rate throughout our communities, making people smile and spreading good cheer.

Julia Feller, a Junior at Rockville High School, and her siblings, bought gifts and made cards to donate to kids whose families may not be able to afford the extra splurge this season.

"Pivot" seems to be the word of the moment. An excellent example of ‘pivoting for good’ is how the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown

Linda was ironing shirts when she turned on the TV to a station she doesn’t usually watch and happened upon a documentary about the Oglala-Lakota nation.

One of the unique aspects of KindWorks is that we intentionally try and nurture a sense of community in everything we do.

In 1999, Phil was teaching touch typing to 3rd graders at two Arlington elementary schools when he noticed that some kids were racing through the lessons

Seeing a child's face light up as they receive a gift they've been dreaming of is part of the joy of the holiday season. Let's amplify that joy for all kids, in all our communities.

On our last soup making session, Saanya asked us to share our favorite memories with our grandmothers in the kitchen.

Typically, we'd be serving dinner in person to our friends at the Interfaith Works Women's Center today, then breaking out a game of Bingo and rejoicing

Nonprofits in our communities are on overdrive - doing what they can to help so many in need and finding creative ways to to do good while keeping everyone safe.