Stitching the stories
Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a stack of paper sheets folded together. It can be mass-produced by high-speed machines in a factory
We are humanKIND
About 20 KindWorkers had gathered to set up an apartment for a newly arriving Syrian refugee family. We assembled a beautiful Pakistani hand carved dining table, arranged a dollhouse with tiny furniture, put together bunk beds, and left backpacks filled with school supplies from a teen heading off to college.
Community Farm Share
One of the most fulfilling aspects of KindWorks is helping inspire people to find their volunteer passion -- perhaps even their life's calling. Jenny, a dear friend and former neighbor who now lives and works on her farm
"Not-so-random-acts-of-kindness"
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"
Serving 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.
Notice, everyone
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
Turn 'nice' into 'kind' (collect wooly socks!)
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
Change one life for the better
Sometimes we get caught up in the enormity of the world's problems -- there is SO much hunger, poverty, injustice, displacement, inequality --
Leave a treat for delivery folks
Sharing a kind gesture can be as easy as goldfish and gatorade 🙂. We love this idea that our Board chair Denise is doing -
Share soup, spread smiles
The KINDdemic and KindWorks was live this morning on ABC 7 News - WJLA. Here’s the segment if you’d like to see it
Paying it forward
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
Supporting education
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
Kindness, by Naomi Shihab Nye
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
Make kindness go viral
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.
Inspire kids to be kind
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 for good
"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
Find your volunteer passion
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.
Connecting
One of the unique aspects of KindWorks is that we intentionally try and nurture a sense of community in everything we do.
Refurbishing computers, Promoting equity
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