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!
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.
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.
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!
SMILE SATURDAY
There is magic in smiling, A smile may seem like an involuntary response to something cute or funny, but it is much more than that. Studies suggest that smiling, forced or not, can have a positive effect on your mood, decrease stress levels, and even make everyone around you feel better.
Awesome Benefits of Smiling
1. Smiling is contagious
2. Smiling lowers stress and anxiety
3. Smiling releases endorphins
4. You’ll be more attractive
5. Smiling strengthens your immune system
6. You’ll be more approachable
7. Smiling will make you more comfortable
8. You’ll seem more trustworthy
9. You’ll be a better leader
KINDNESS SPOTLIGHT
Mayor’s Youth Council Safety Summit on Friendly Friday
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!
Happy Kindness Week Everyone!
We would like to invite all of our local 2016 Pocatello/Chubbuck Sponsors and the CKM Crew to join us for a photo shoot tomorrow. Remember to wear your yellow Kindness T-shirts! We appreciate Principal Janice Nelson for inviting us to take pictures with her students at Washington and Tendoy Elementary in their Kindness T-Shirts!
Here is our Community Acts of Kindness Challenge.
We invite you all to join in with us and the students!
HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK!
Next school year is slowly creeping up on us and we find that it’s time to start planning for the KINDNESS BEGINS WITH ME PROGRAM in your schools. Let’s get started! We hope that all the schools that were wanting to participate this year, have filled out the application on our website. If you have not filled out the application, please do so HERE!
NEW 2016-17 THEME AND DESIGN:
We are excited to introduce the 2016-2017 Kindness Theme this year. We loved last year’s Tidal Wave Theme and believe that we experienced a Kindness Tidal Wave here in Pocatello and Chubbuck last year. The new theme for 2016-17 School Year is: “Kindness Comes Around FULL Circle!”. The theme ties into the 2016 Kindness T-Shirt design.
SPONSORS:
We want to thank all our continuing sponsors and new sponsors. If our are a new sponsor and we have not received your logo, please send it to CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com. If we are still awaiting your business’s sponsorship donation, the deadline is August 20th. We greatly appreciate all of our sponsors. We know that your support makes this all possible for our kids. We would also like to thank the Idaho PTA for their continued support and partnership.
NON-PROFIT STATUS
We have established our own CKM Non-Profit Corporation status. A BIG Thank You to Dave Bagley and his ISU Students.
WELCOME
We would like to welcome the new schools that are joining us this year and welcome back schools who joined us last year. We have updated most of our current school resource pages on our website. We hope you find it helpful in planning the Kindness Begins With Me Program. Please feel free to contact Melissa at CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com, if you have questions or need further guidance. We are here to help!
SCHOOL PLANNING RESOURCES FOR 2016-2017
- Kindness Week and Kindness Day Dates – Click Here
- Fundraising Packets – Click Here
- Basic CKM Instructions – Click Here
- Kindness T-Shirt Order Forms – Click Here
Order forms need to be distributed to every teacher in your school, the first week of school. T-Shirt Order deadline is September 1st. We recommend each teacher filling out a teacher order form for their pwn classroom. We then recommend making a Master School Order Form to send into the CKM. Hold onto the Teacher Order Forms for distribution purposes when your school’s Kindness T-Shirts arrive. Distributing them by classroom before actual Kindness Day is highly recommended. Please remember to send us an email with your schools name and the sponsorship logos that need to be on the back of your school’s Kindness T-Shirts.- We have also have available a Kindness T-Shirt Order Forms to help you with parent and school fundraising.
- For schools that are joining us after Kindness Week, feel free to submit your orders when you are ready to start the program.
- Kindness Week Parent Introductory Letter – Click Here
To help introduce the Kindness Begins with Me Program, we send out a Parent Letter to help explain what Kindness Week will include and what the Acts of Kindness themes are for each day. Have fun with this, parents are encouraged to join in. Kindness T-Shirts are available to order on our website if parents would like join your school in wearing them on Thursdays.
- Kindness Week Daily Themes – “Acts of Kindness Calendar” – Click Here
- It’s important to print this calendar out for each classroom and to post around your school. We highly recom
mend dedicating a school bulletin board to help remind the students of the theme each day. Each morning have the teachers discuss the Act of Kindness that day and give examples of ways that the students can perform them.
- It’s important to print this calendar out for each classroom and to post around your school. We highly recom
- School Planning Packet – Click Here
- Take into account that this is last year’s planning packet. We are currently revising it for this next year. This packet version will help you get started and give you helpful planning ideas. We will send an update once it is revised.
- DIY Kindness Assembly – Click Here
- With the information on this page you can plan your own Kindness Assembly Kick-off at your school!
- Kindness Video – Click Here
- We will be using our locally produced Kindness Video from 2015-2016 school year. We will be updating and making current editing changes. We will have it ready for the 2016-2017 school year. We recommend showing the Kindness Video on Monday, the first day of Kindness Week, in a classroom setting for all students to see. We highly recommend teachers facilitating a discussion about what the students saw in the video. The video is a great resource in helping students visualize the reason why we are celebrating a Kindness Week and what the Kindness T-Shirts represent. The video shows how one child acted upon a kind thought and how that one kind action grew into a ripple effect spreading throughout the entire school. We hope that you will see your school experience a kindness ripple effect. Once we have the current updates to the Kindness Video we will send out a link to view.
- Kindness Day Monthly Themes – Click Here
- We have planned NEW MONTHLY THEMES for this next school year! Every 3rd Thursday is our celebrated Kindness Day. The CKM Committee have put together wonderful themes to help you plan. You are welcome to use our themes or you can plan your own. Currently, our themes are centered around elementary school level. We will be providing secondary options soon and will add them to the same page. Please check back with us.
- We have planned NEW MONTHLY THEMES for this next school year! Every 3rd Thursday is our celebrated Kindness Day. The CKM Committee have put together wonderful themes to help you plan. You are welcome to use our themes or you can plan your own. Currently, our themes are centered around elementary school level. We will be providing secondary options soon and will add them to the same page. Please check back with us.
We know your students are going to LOVE IT – Happy Planning!