KINDNESS DAY
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
Make Kindness Your SUPERPOWER!
Thank you for a wonderful Community Kindness Week in September. The CKM will be celebrating our first Kindness Day of the 2018-19 school year this week. Please send out a reminder in your school newsletter and teacher-to-parent emails reminding parents that Kindness shirts are encouraged to be worn each Thursday and that every THIRD THURSDAY is a celebrated monthly Kindness Day. Let them know that teachers or your school kindness club will be providing a kindness lesson or class discussion on these days.
CKM KINDNESS WEEK SLIDESHOW
The CKM is putting together a slideshow from that week that you will be able to share with your students, school newsletters, and on school and business social media sites. If you have pictures from our Community Kindness Week that you would like to share, please send to CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com. The deadline is October 31st. We plan to have the slideshow available by November’s Kindness Day.
ACCESS TO ANNUAL KINDNESS PROGRAM
If your school participated in our CKM Kindness Week and was funded Kindness Shirts, your school was granted access to our annual school Kindness Program. If you are a teacher and have not received access to our Monthly Kindness Lesson Plans, please contact your school’s Kindness Coordinator for the password.
EXCITING NEWS!
More schools are joining us soon!
For schools that are not located in Idaho, they have to option to have our 2016 Yellow Kindness Shirt design.
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!
What is the Community Kindness Movement?
We are excited about the great responses we have been receiving. Many have asked about the details of our Kindness Program. We have dedicated a new website page to answering majority of your questions. The new information page is located under CKM Program on www.TheCKM.org.
If you find that you have other questions, please send them to: CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com.
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.
You’re invited to Idaho Gives | May 3rd, 2018
On May 3rd, 2018 the COMMUNITY KINDNESS MOVEMENT is joining a STATEWIDE giving movement: Idaho Gives!
During this 24-hour giving event, the CKM is raising funds to support/to grow our
Kindness Begins with Me Annual School Kindness Program.
The CKM is fundraising to provide Kindness T-Shirt Grants to go along with our Kindness Program.
Get ready to give back!
On May 3rd, starting at 12AM on May 3, visit our
#IdahoGives CKM SPONSORSHIP PAGE
You will have 24 hours to make your donation, and all giving will end at 11:59PM on May 3.
January Kindness Day: Thursday, January 18th, 2018
Theme: Kindness is Contagious
Smile..Pass it On – Pay It Forward – Put a Smile on Someone’s Face
This is a reminder to wear your Kindness T-Shirts or the color yellow this Thursday
and to encourage your students to do the same.
Smiling is not just a universal means of communicating, it’s also a frequent one. More than 30% of us smile more than 20 times a day and less than 14% of us smile less than 5 times a day. In fact, those with the greatest superpowers are actually children, who smile as many as 400 times per day!
Kindness is as contagious, like a common cold in the winter. When we are kind to each other, it softens our hearts and makes us want to be kind to others as well. Kindness also has proven to make us happier. When we are happier, we become the best version of ourselves. Teachers and parents are often amazed at some of the Pay It Forward ideas that students come up with. It really does teach a powerful lesson: “That one person can make a difference and help others in need despite age, background, money, or social status. Random acts of kindness inspire us all to be better people.” Thank you for your support of this wonderful initiative. Please share your Pay it Forward stories with us at CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com, so your story can inspire others to Pay it Forward. Have a wonderful Kindness Day!
Benefits of Smiling:
- When you smile, you look good and feel good.
- When others see you smile, they smile too.
- When you want to tap into a superpower to help yourself and others live longer and to live a healthier and happier lives…SMILE 🙂
- Smiling seems to give us the same happiness that exercising induces terms of how our brain responds. In short: our brain feels good and tells us to smile, we smile and tell our brain it feels good and so forth.
Why does this matter? Smiling leads to decrease in the stress-induced hormones that negatively affect your physical and mental health. Our children need to feel love, need to feel important, need to feel like someone cares about them. Smiling at them and letting them know you care could make a world of difference for them!
These are more great media options to include or to start your January’s Kindness Day discussion:
Happy Holidays from the CKM
Kindness Day: December 21st, 2017
Kindness Theme: “Kindness is Always in Season” – Secret Service Month
What a wonderful time of year to perform Secret Service to others! This holiday season is all about coming together, showing loved ones how much we care, making memories to be treasured for years to come, and giving the most precious gift – the gift of ourselves. We would like to share a few videos to help transcend this message of KINDNESS and LOVE. We hope you joined in the our CKM Secret Service Activity or your school planned their own Secret Service Project.
Wishing you wonderful Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Next week we celebrate our DECEMBER KINDNESS DAY
THEME: “Kindness is Always in Season”
Date: Thursday, December 21st, 2017
he CKM would like to challenge you, your students, and/or children to participate in our Secret Service activity for the month of December. Most of you have one more week of school and what better way to celebrate by encouraging your students to join in the spirit of Christmas and performing a secret kind act each day. See handouts below.
We also would LOVE to hear and see what your school has been up to this year in spreading kindness and using our NEW Kindness Planning Booklet. Email us anytime at CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com. We are excited for 2018 and look forward to our NEW Kindness Video.
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!
The Community Kindness Movement is excited about producing a NEW LOCALLY FILMED KINDNESS VIDEO in Meridian, Idaho. Our Kindness Video is shown at school assemblies, motivational speaking presentations, and fundraising events for our Kindness Begins with Me Bullying Prevention Program.
EVERY CHILD IS WELCOME. We need kids from ages K-12th grade. All abilities and disabilities. Please make sure they are comfortable in being filmed. If your child does have special needs, we ask that you come with them.
The CKM is pleased to partner with Kody Newton, of GadgetGents in producing the video and for Idaho Pediatric Dentistry, Dr. Christopher Loveland DDS and Idaho Central Credit Union for providing the funds.
To get a better idea of what we are doing, you can view our 2015 Kindness Video produced by Cade Sutton here: https://youtu.be/OeunYgwvx1I.
By having local kids star in a Kindness Video, it is a way in empowering our kids to be “World Changers”; whether it be in their own friendship circles, classrooms, schools, online, and out in their community. May we each strive to be Models of Kindness.
FILMING DATE
When: Saturday, October 14th, 2017
Where: Mountain View High School
2000 S Millenium Way, Meridian, ID 83642
Time Slot A: 8am – 10:00am
Time Slot B: 9am – 11:00am
Time Slot C: 10am – 12pm
Please send your children with the following:
- A YELLOW Kindness T-Shirt – All current and past kindness t-shirts are wanted to wear in the video. Please dress your child in something else, rather than their Kindness T-Shirt. They just need to bring their t-shirt to slip over their clothes for the video parts. Please no large logos. If your child does not have a Kindness t-shirt, we will be selling them for $5 at the school that day.
- A Book Bag (make them look like they’re going to school)
- A Jacket. Dress for the weather.
- Sack Lunch(we will have them eat lunch, but we also film a lunch scene).
- Adult Volunteers – (Please wear your BLACK or Yellow Kindness T-Shirts). We will need a few adult actors. We will also have Kindness T-Shirts available to purchase for $5 the day of filming.
FIRST STEP – SIGN-UP YOUR CHILD(REN) HERE – http://www.signupgenius.com/go/508054eacaa2da1f49-2018
SECOND STEP – SIGN the Media Release Form – Waiver of Liability Form – 2018 Media and Liabilty Waiver
THIRD STEP – Email the Media Form/Waiver to CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com by Monday, October 9th
FOURTH STEP – See you on October 14th – Please arrive on time. Thank you!
The CKM Executive Officers
Email: CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com
Website: www.CommunityKindnessMovement.com
