It all started when…

No matter where I looked, no matter how hard I tried, no one wanted me to bring my three tiny tots to their service events. We have offered to bring our kids to sort clothes at domestic violence shelters, cook and serve dinners to homeless families, coordinate wish-granting services for children with terminal illnesses … no takers. I couldn’t even get an animal shelter to let us come pet their puppies. Instead, we found ourselves filling our time at one jungle gym or another, our kids rarely having the opportunity to get outside their little suburban bubble to help others — aside from the occasional ball pit rescue, a heroic feat for sure, but not exactly what we had in mind for our kids’ budding sense of civic duty.

I felt like the only option for me to get my own kids involved in regular, meaningful service was for me to create my own organization where they would actually be welcome to participate and, in fact, all the projects would be tailor-made for their little hands and minds. Enter Kids for Kindness, my bare bones, low budget, no frills (read: operating this baby at a loss!) attempt to plant seeds of compassion in my children and others in our community. I hope you will join us in our incredible journey. Can we call it that? Let’s call it that.

Kids for Kindness LLC is an Arizona-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.