FEBRUARY KINDNESS DAY
Thursday, February 21st, 2019
Remember to wear and dress your kids in your yellow or black Kindness Shirt!
COMING SOON! Watch for our posting on our social sites reminding your school to fill out our 2019-20 application to join us next year. We will be celebrating our for our 2019 Community Kindness Week, the third week in September.
Love and kindness bless the giver and receiver, and there’s no better way to express that love, than showing it! Demonstrating kindness strengthens bonds of love, and a simple pat on the back or hug can have a lasting impact.
Welcome Silver Sage Elementary
Silver Sage Elementary is our newest school to join the CKM. We helped launch their Kindness Week in January. We want to thank the Silver Sage PTO for raising all of their funds to purchase their entire faculty and student body our CKM Kindness shirts.
Continue to share your Kindness pictures with us!
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.
Back-to-School is here!
We want to make sure you have access to the Kindness Shirt Order Forms.
Due Date: Monday, August 27th, 2018
CLICK HERE – 2018 Yellow Teacher Order Form
CLICK HERE – 2018 Black Faculty (optional) Order Form
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!
KINDNESS is CONTAGIOUS and YOU CAN HELP US SPREAD IT!
The Community Kindness Movement is excited to announce something NEW THIS YEAR!
We are seeking CKM Kindness Ambassadors that are like-minded individuals/leaders in our Idaho communities that are charitable, kind, compassionate and have empowered themselves to make a difference. Our Kindness Ambassadors will partner with the CKM to help lead our Community Kindness Week campaigns & Daily Kindness challenges through sharing on their own social media accounts. As you tag the CKM in your postings, we too will share selected posts on our social media. We will off a CKM Kindness Ambassador page on www.TheCKM.org where we will have a headshot pictures and bio. We will announce to our followers whom they should be following during our CKW, in September.
Our Kindness Ambassador Mission is all about encouraging others to join us in being models of kindness, to spread more kindness into our Idaho communities, and to challenge their friends, family, and social media followers to echo kind acts throughout our Community Kindness Week. TOGETHER we can cultivate a spirit of CommUNITY to inspire others and to fill social media with goodness.
In other words, all eyes on the CKM Kindness Ambassadors!
If under the age of 18, we ask that parents or legal guardians fill out our Ambassador Application Form for their child. Parents or legal guardians will need to give consent in order for your child to be a CKM Kindness Ambassador. Your child does not have to have social media account, but can if they over the recommended age (the CKM is not advising that your child get a social media account). We will ask that you share their photos of them performing their daily acts of kindness, so we can share on our social media, newsletters, and to include in a CKW slide show. If parents have a social media account, you are welcome to share their photos and tag @CommunityKindnessMovement in them too. We want to keep kids safe, while still including them and encouraging them to lead the kindness movement! CLICK HERE
Thank you for applying for the CKM Gifting Funds. Just a reminder that TODAY, August 13th, is the last day to apply. The CKM will be making the announcement soon of the schools/classrooms whom will be receiving these awarded Kindness Shirts.
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 HOT SUMMER!
The CKM has been busy working on updating our Kindness Program and will have it available at www.TheCKM.org, by September 1st, 2018. It will be available HERE to all schools that have signed up on our website.
With 2018-19 School Year right around the corner. We ask that ALL SCHOOLS interested in participating, fill out our CKM ONLINE APPLICATION . The deadline is AUGUST 10th, 2018.
HOW IT ALL WORKS
The CKM is a non-profit organization. We provide schools our annual Kindness Program AT COST. By supporting the CKM and purchasing Kindness Shirts for your school or students, you are also supporting another wonderful non-profit printing company, whom offer employment for disabled residents in the Pocatello, Idaho community. Our Kindness Shirts are $4.50 per student. Faculty shirts start at the same price, there is an extra cost to plus sizes. The price includes sales tax and shipping. With your school bulk purchase of our Kindness shirts for your students, staff, classroom, etc., we grant you school online access to our annual Kindness Program for FREE. All school would need to fill out our online application to get started. The information is below.
WEST ADA SCHOOL DISTRICT SCHOOLS
For the 2018-19 School year, the CKM is thrilled to be partnering with the City of Meridian and the West Ada School District in proclaiming the first official COMMUNITY KINDNESS WEEK! With this partnership West Ada Schools will be given online access to our Kindness Program for FREE with or without purchase of Kindness shirts. West Ada schools would still need to fill out an online application to receive access to our program.
TEACHER/ CLASSROOM IMPLEMENTATION
Keep in mind that we do offer our program to classrooms too. If your entire school is not participating, but you’re a teacher and would like to implement our program in your classroom, we invite your to fill out the online application. You can reach out to your student’s parents to fund their own child a Kindness Shirt for $4.50. Majority of parents are happy to do this and it can build unity in your classroom. Also, mention to the parents that they will wear them to school each Thursday and the Kindness shirt can be part of their new school year attire. We have heard and seen great success with our Teacher/Classroom concept.
The CKM participates in the
Meridian Dairy Days Parade 2018
THANK YOU to A1 Towing for providing the truck for us to ride on. They are exceptional guys! We also appreciate all the kindness of all our parade volunteers. We had such a good time in spreading the word, that the City of Meridian will be celebrating a Community Kindness Week, this September.
Today’s the day! Idaho Gives is here.
Make sure you follow us on Facebook and Instagram @CommunityKindnessMovement to keep up with all the action. You can also share our social media posts for a quick and easy boost to your own social media pages! Your personal networks are going to make a huge difference today.
There are so many ways to spread the word. Text a friend. Post on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #IdahoGives and #TheCKM. Send an email. Oh, and you can also just tell someone in person – that works, too.
We’ll keep you updated on everything going on so you can share any great news with your networks!
JOIN IN – Give the gift of #Kindness!
CLICK HERE – Community Kindness Movement / IDAHO GIVES
TOMORROW is the Big Day! | Idaho Gives
Thank you for your support in spreading the word about our Idaho Gives campaign! These several weeks have been a whirlwind preparing for Idaho Gives, and we sometimes forget to stop and think about what you’ve helped us accomplish. Your support of the Community Kindness Movement has made our ANNUAL KINDNESS PROGRAM possible, and we can never forget that!
Tomorrow will be a big day for us, and we want to share in that success with you. We look forward to even more #KINDNESS we’ll be able to give to more kids in our Idaho Schools after we reach our goal!
Remember, we can’t do this without you. Here are 3 easy things you can do tomorrow:
- Please consider making a contribution on May 3rd, 2018 to your personal fundraising campaign
- Share our important work with your friends and family on Facebook, Twitter, or other social channels using #TheCKM and the hashtag #IdahoGives. You can also go to our FB Page CLICK HERE and share our link with your FB Friends. We would really appreciate that.
- Send an email sharing your enthusiasm for the Community Kindness Movement and #IdahoGives to your friends, colleagues, and family members. We’d love if they would support us, but we also want everyone to support whatever inspires them.
Thank you again for your support of the Community Kindness Movement – let’s make history tomorrow!
Come visit us at THE VILLAGE in Meridian. We would LOVE to fill our Kindness Board with Kindness T-Shirts Sponsors. We will replace each tab with a sponsorship donation with YOUR NAME ON IT! We will also have a CKM Polaroid Frame to take your sponsorship picture! We will share the pictures on our CKM Instagram and Community Kindness Movement FB Page.