We’re Happy to Announce our Kindness Grant Winner for March 2023

Kindness Grant Winner Rachael Rosenberg

Rachael Rosenberg (Los Angeles, CA) is the 17-year-old founder of Bundles of Kindness, a non-profit that provides care kits for the homeless. What started out as a community service project for her bat mitzvah is still going strong four years later, delivering bundles of supplies to the homeless in the Los Angeles area. Continue reading We’re Happy to Announce our Kindness Grant Winner for March 2023

We’re Happy To Announce Our Kindness Grant Winner for February 2023

kindness grant winner Taha Umar

Congratulations to Taha Umar who will receive $500 to fund his kindness project.

Note:  We’re still giving two grants, the second one will be announced in March so that we can shine the spotlight on one person at a time.  We’re able to do this because we have so many wonderful people who support us and believe in our mission.  We truly appreciate all of the donations that make this possible.

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A Day of Spreading Kindness

Airam Gomez Spreading kindness
MKRO Grant Winner Airam Gomez (R), with her friend, Jhoana Chavez.

Airam Gomez, our MKRO August Grant Winner, shared how her day of spreading kindness for her 18th birthday went. I was so inspired by her letter, I could feel the joy she was spreading and it had me smiling and feeling good all day.  I wanted to share her letter so you can feel the ripple, smile, and pass on that happiness to the people around you too.

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We’re Happy to Announce, Two Matt Kurtz Kindness Grant Winners for August 2021

Kindness Grant Winner Airam Gomez
Kindness Grant Winner Humza Zaida

Congratulations to Airam Gomez and Humza Zaidi. Each received $250 to fund their acts of kindness projects.

Once again, we’re able to give out two awards because we have so many wonderful people who support us and believe in our mission.  We truly appreciate all of the donations that make this possible.   

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We’re Happy to Announce Two Winners of our Matt Kurtz Kindness Grant for August 2020

Congratulations to Chelsea Phaire and Shirley Raines, each received $250 to fund their acts of kindness projects!

** Update: CNN named Shirley Raines 2021 CNN Hero of the Year. Congratulations Shirley!

Chelsea Phaire Chelsea's Charity
Shirley Raines, Beauty 2 the Streetz

Once again, we are able to give out two awards because we have so many wonderful people who support us and believe in our mission.  We truly appreciate all of the donations that make this possible.   

About our August 2020 winners:

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We’re Proud to Announce, Deneishia Jacobpito is the Winner of the Matt Kurtz Kindness Grant for February 2020

Deneishia Jacobpito Kindness Grant Winner, Feb 2020

Update:  See pictures below of items collected and donated by Deneishia.  

Our February 2020 Kindness Grant winner, Deneishia Jacobpito (Des Moines, IA), actually has two great ideas that she’ll be using the grant money for, both of them touched our hearts. 

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We’re Excited to Announce, Two Winners of the Matt Kurtz Kindness Grant

Congratulations to Mindy Ousley and Ashley and Dustin Beeler, each got $250 to fund their acts of kindness projects!

Kindness Grant Winner Mindy Ousley
Kindness Grant Winner Ashley and Dustin Beeler

Once again, we are extremely lucky to have so many wonderful people who support us and believe in our mission.  We truly appreciate all of the donations that make it possible for us to give out additional grants and awards, including this second grant.  

We’d also like to acknowledge the many people (almost 100) who sent in their fantastic ideas for kindness projects.  While we wish we could give our grant to every kindness project submitted, there were so many fantastic ideas, we regret we have only two to give. We want to thank each and every one of you for submitting your ideas and hope you continue to spread kindness everywhere you go!

About our August 2019 winners:

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