CONGRATULATIONS
The CKM is excited to announce the Idaho schools that will be receiving gifted funds to go toward purchasing Kindness shirts.
Thank you for applying!
BIG NEWS!
CKM GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
IMPORTANT INFORMATION – Please take the time to read.
The CKM would like to thank all of our 2018-19 KINDNESS sponsors, grantor, parents, and general public for your donations and the ability to offer Kindness shirts and our annual Kindness Program to more schools this year.
We will be inviting sponsors to a few events during our Community Kindness Week. Also, CKM Sponsor logos will be printed on the back of all Kindness Shirts distributed through the CKM. If your school has additional sponsors, we ask that you provide those logos and list of sponsors to us when sending in the Kindness shirt order forms. We will send out the ordering information soon.
CKM GRANT CYCLE NOW OPEN
APPLY NOW – DEADLINE IS MONDAY, AUGUST 13th, 2018
$1000-$500 SCHOOL GRANTS: School grants means that the CKM will be providing $1000 toward your Kindness shirts purchase. Your School, PTA, PTO, or funds from Sponsors will be able to fund the remaining amount for your entire student body and faculty to have a Kindness shirt. This is a grant for Kindness shirts (no cash grants)
$100-$150 TEACHER/CLASSROOM GRANTS: Classroom grants means that the CKM will be funding up to 22-33 students (entire classroom) with Kindness shirts, which needs to also include a teacher shirt. If you classroom exceeds this, please let us know the amount of students you will have. Teachers will need to apply for this grant individually on our website. When filling out the application and submitting it, we are asking that you implement our annual Kindness Program in your classroom for the 2018-2019 school year. This is a grant for Kindness shirts (no cash grants)
HOW TO APPLY and REQUIREMENTS: ALL SCHOOLS SELECTED WILL BE ASKED TO IMPLEMENT OUR ANNUAL KINDNESS PROGRAM which will be included and FREE. Online access will be giving September 1st. We will also send out a few surveys and opportunities to share pictures. We would like for your school or teacher to report back on their Kindness Week in SEPTEMBER and an a year-end-review in APRIL.
Schools will be selected on a first come, first serve basis. APPLY by filling out our online application at www.CKM.org and click on the APPLY tab. ——-APPLY NOW——–
WHAT ARE THE COSTS: When applying for the CKM Grants, your school or teachers is committing to fund or gather the remaining funds needed to supply your entire school or classroom with Kindness shirts. Kindness shirts would need to be ordered for each student. Faculty is highly recommended to also wear the shirts to lead as examples. The cost starts at $4.50 per shirt and plus sizes are extra. Please reference the attached Kindness shirt order forms to figure the exact costs for your schools.
ORDER FORMS
In the past we have seen PTA/PTO organizations help fund our program for all the students and/or faculty, or have the schools provide the funds for the faculty. Or we have a sponsor letter available to find your own business sponsors or a flyer to send out to parents to fundraise the remaining funds. Please contact if you need these forms.
West Ada Schools Fundraising Letter 2018
General School Fundraising Letter 2018
School Online-Fundraising Flyer
CKM TIMELINE:
GRANT/APPLICATION DEADLINE – AUGUST 13th, 2018
ANNOUNCE SCHOOLS AWARDED – AUGUST 15th, 2018
ORDERING INFORMATION will be sent not later than AUGUST 17th, 2018.
KINDNESS Shirts Forms will be filled out by each teacher for their own classroom. The teachers will need to turn in their order forms into the office and your school will need consolidate all orders to ONE MASTER COPY. One Master Copy for each YELLOW and BLACK shirt orders (if it applies). Some school choose to order all yellow, but if your faculty would like to be in black that is an option. Remember that Yellow shirts are always for the students. Black is available for the faculty. Please keep the copy of the individual teacher orders for your records to distribute once you receive the order (week before Kindness Week). We we will send out more instruction on this. WE ONLY NEED THE MASTER COPIES. These will need to be emailed to us: DEADLINE: AUGUST 27TH, 2018.
ENHANCED 2018 KINDNESS SHIRT DESIGN
The CKM has decided to make a change to the 2018 Kindness Shirt.
Many have expressed how much they LOVE the Idaho design. We do too! We really loved the 2017 design, but still felt like we needed to do something different to still make it feel like a NEW DESIGN for 2018. The students LOVE to get a new design each year. Our Directors have voted and we hope you all like the enhancement.
Happy NOVEMBER Kindness Day!
The CKM Board of Directors have voted in our NEW 2018 Executive Officers. We would like to extend a KIND WELCOME.
The CKM is excited for our NEW 2018 Kindness Video coming next year! Thank you, to all of the individuals that shared their time, generosity, and talents to help spread more KINDNESS throughout the State of Idaho. Film Day was a blast!
Happy Holidays!
December Kindness Theme: GIVING HOPE AND JOY TO OTHERS
What a great time of year to share our CKM Kindness Week 2016 Video! It’s amazing seeing all these children given the Gift of Kindness from so many caring sponsors, grantors, schools, and parents – THANK YOU! We invite all participating schools to share the Kindness Week Video with your students on this December’s Kindness Day, December 15th, 2016. Your students will enjoy watching how KINDNESS has inspired your school, other schools in the community, and schools throughout the State of Idaho.
SCHOOL KINDNESS SPOTLIGHT – Liberty Elementary – Boise, Idaho
We would like to thank the Liberty Elementary PTA for funding Liberty Elementary in Boise, with our Kindness Begins With Me Program. We were
excited to have them participate this year and enjoyed visiting their school and launching their Kindness Week. Thank you for sharing this great picture of your students celebrating Kindness Day last month. We also noticed a great picture on their school website https://liberty.boiseschools.org/ of their students in their Kindness T-Shirts.
DECEMBER KINDNESS THEME FLYER & ACTIVITY
We would love to hear about your school’s kind acts for this holiday season. We will continue to spotlight school’s each month in our Monthly Newsletters. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! On December 15th (Kindness Day), we will be announcing some wonderful news that fits with our December Kindness Theme, stay tuned!
THANK YOU 2016-2017 SPONSORS!
Your kindness will come around full circle this year with providing 3000+ students with Kindness T-Shirts to go along with our
“Kindness Begins With Me!” Bullying Prevention Program.
2016 Kindness T-Shirt Printing
Thank you to New Day Products for adding extra shifts to print all of our Kindness T-Shirts for Kindness Week. The schools should be receiving their Kindness T-Shirts by the end of the week for distribution on Monday, the FIRST DAY OF KINDNESS WEEK!
HAPPY KINDNESS DAY!
MAY you be KIND to YOURSELF
MAY you be KIND to OTHERS
MAY you be KIND to the EARTH
What an amazing year! It’s crazy to think that we are celebrating our last Kindness Day of the 2015-2016 School Year! No words can ever express my gratitude. Today, I just want each of you to know that I appreciate each of you. The CKM Committee has witnessed such a remarkable year. Our children have the ability to achieve greatness when we show them that we believe they can. Thanks to all the Principals and Teachers who supported our Annual Kindness Program in your schools and classrooms. The program was successful because you lead the effort in leading as a Models of Kindness. Because of you, the Kindness message made an impact on so many students. We hope you all have a wonderful Kindness Day and most importantly a fun and safe summer vacation with your family and friends.
Until Next Year!
If your school has not applied online through our online application and plans on participating next year, we recommend doing so at your earliest convenience.
Next year, will be a first come, first funded basis. If your school is willing to help fundraise for your own Kindness T-shirts, we would greatly appreciate any help offered. We will make available a few options in the Kindness T-Shirt design. We are able to offer school logos on the sleeve if requested and we will have Polo Style Kindness wear available for your faculty next year. The School cost of the Kindness T-Shirts are $3.50 per t-shirt for local pickup orders and $4.50 per t-shirt for shipped orders.
THANK YOU CKM COMMITTEE 2015-2016
Even though each of my CKM Committee Members deserves a Kindness Award, I wanted to surprise them today with their own CKM Cartoon Character! I appreciate everything these individuals have done to contribute to such a great cause and for being believers. These individuals will forever be called my friends. New Day Products, Region 5 PTA, and AllState Helping Hands Volunteer Program helped make this all happen with me. Thank you so much!
Terry Frederickson
Mary Kae Ryner
Melanie Mortensen
Jessie Arnold
MAY 2016 COMMUNITY KINDNESS AWARD
I want to thank the IDAHO PTA! It was only fitting to save them for this May’s Community Kindness Award. I appreciate the PTA partnering up with the CKM in providing a way to implement the program through their parent volunteers. The PTA also played a major role as a Non-Profit sponsor. I couldn’t have done all this without them! Mary Kae Ryner, you’re the best!
MAY 2016 STUDENT KINDNESS AWARD
I had the privilege in visiting Christine Donnell School of the Arts in Boise, Idaho, during the Idaho PTA Convention. I was able to grant the Student Kindness Award to Noah Orton. I was able to surprise Noah in front of all his classmates. All my kids joined me that day and it was fun having them witness me giving out the Kindness Award (since they beg me each month to give it to them). Thank you, Principal Leipf for nominating Noah and for letting us make a visit. I also want to give another shout out to Teresa Costella, their PTA President, for implementing the CKM Program and for their PTA funding all of their Kindness T-Shirts!
WHY I LIKE MY KINDNESS T-SHIRT and 2015 KINDNESS WEEK
Christine Donnell School of the Arts – West Ada School District
Idaho State Legislature – Boise, Id
Last week, I had the privilege in launching Kindness Week for Christine Donnell School of the Arts and attending Legistlative Day with the Idaho PTA Board.
What an amazing sight to see 615 of CDSA students in Yellow “Kindness Begins with ME!” T-shirts! CDSA is a wonderful Arts School with such a caring faculty and PTA. The Kindness Assembly started off with a musical number from their students, our Kindness Assembly (The 6 Scientific Reasons To Perform Kindness), and then Principal Leipf granted 21 Compassion Awards. Hands down, great assembly! A Big Thank you to the CDSA PTA for funding all of their Kindness T-shirts. Teresa Costello, the PTA President, is the individual to thank for getting this all started for their school and to Principal Leipf.
Empowering a Bridge of Light in our kids – Join the Movement
Enjoy the Video!
I highly recommend our Kindness Assembly. If you are a local school in the Pocatello/Chubbuck area, we can plan to do an assembly at your school on our monthly Kindness Days. Please contact us to schedule a date in advance. We have schools out of the area wanting us to come do our Kindness Assembly and are paying our expenses to have us come. This is something that I feel our local schools should take advantage of. We have local AllState Volunteers that help with our local assemblies, with their service hours it donates funding to our next year funds for kindness t-shirts. Thank you, AllState! Our Kindness Assembly is a 45 minute presentation. You can read more HERE. The Kindnses Assembly consists of a video created to engage your students that associates cartoon characters with the beneifts of kindness. The kids LOVE it!
Thank you, KTVB Channel 7 and 6 News in Boise, for coming to the CDSA Kindness Week Launch and for happily reporting on Boise’s first school to implement our CKM Program. I appreciate media that help in our efforts to spread the Kindness message and to bring more awareness to Bullying Prevention.
We had a great day last Wednesday, introducing the CKM to our State House of Representatives and State Senators. Represenative Lance Clow said, “This sounds like a great Bullying Prevention Program that I will have to take back to our schools”. Rep. Clow resides in Twin Falls. Overall, great feedback and exposure. I couldn’t be more grateful to our Idaho PTA Board. I also did a CKM presenation to our Idaho PTA and to students and they too loved the program. We hope to see Kindness to continue to spread throughout our state!
We now have a fully designed Parent Flyer to send out to the Parents before Kindness Week begins. We are continually evolving and adding things that we realize we need to help make the program better and more informative.
A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO:
New Day Products Staff, Terry Frederickson, Kathy Wheatly, Mary Kae Ryner, Melanie Mortensen, Jessie Arnold, Sam Nelson, Connie Longhurst, Carmen Stanger, Teresa Costello, Principal Leipf, CDSA PTA, Idaho PTA Board, and our Idaho State Legislature.