HOW WE GOT STARTED
In late 2016, seeing a growing trend of unkindness in the world, Karyn Ross had an idea. That idea was to create small green buttons with red hearts on them and slips of paper with messages such as ‘Plant Kindness and Grow Love’, and ‘Practice Kindness’. Karyn’s idea was to anonymously leave buttons and slips wherever she was – airports, grocery stores, restaurants - for people to find! A small reminder that wherever we are, whoever we are, and whatever we believe in, as long as we treat each other kindly, the world will be a great place for all of us.
WHAT WE DO
Three years later, 2019, Karyn founded The Love and Kindness Project Foundation. Dedicated to creating a world of love and kindness before money, the Foundation, a registered 501(c)3 charity, focuses not on raising funds, like many public charities, but on ‘raising kindness’. We do that by:
• Giving out, at no cost (including shipping), Love and Kindness Buttons!
• Providing materials and support for those who want to facilitate Kindness Activities
• Hosting Kindness Events at schools and other locations around the world
• Providing micro-grants, support and coaching to help people create their own love and
kindness project such as #RootCauseRacism, Parent University 101 and #VoteForKindness
WHAT WE DO
Three years later, 2019, Karyn founded The Love and Kindness Project Foundation. Dedicated to creating a world of love and kindness before money, the Foundation, a registered 501(c)3 charity, focuses not on raising funds, like many public charities, but on ‘raising kindness’. We do that by:
• Giving out, at no cost (including shipping), Love and Kindness Buttons!
• Providing materials and support for those who want to facilitate Kindness Activities
• Hosting Kindness Events at schools and other locations around the world
• Providing micro-grants, support and coaching to help people create their own love and
kindness project such as #RootCauseRacism, Parent University 101 and #VoteForKindness
WHO HELPS US
As people around the world learned about the Foundation, they often asked how they could help. Volunteer Country Directors and Kindness Ambassadors in the United Kingdom, Canada, The Caribbean, Brazil, The Netherlands, Africa and Australia, help to spread our message through social media, giving out Love and Kindness buttons and translating our materials into many languages.
The Foundation is supported by proceeds from the sale of the books such as Big Karma and
Little Kosmo Help Each Other, Think, Speak and Act Kindly: 366 Easy and Free Ideas for You to Use to Create a Kinder World…Starting Today! and Stories from the Fox Continuous
Improvement Team and other business books Karyn has authored. The Foundation also accepts kind donations from people like you!
To find out how you can help, please contact Karyn at karyn@loveandkindnessproject.org