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Teaching Mindful Kindness
Transforming Lives

Evidence-based programs helping students, communities, workplaces, and incarcerated individuals build healthier relationships, resilience, and well-being.

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Image a community where kindness
is the default, not the exception

Neighbors who notice each other. Workplaces where people thrive. Families that handle hard moments with grace. Schools where every child feels seen. Trust rebuilt across the lines that divide us. That's where a Kindness Ambassador comes in.

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Help kindness become
a habit in your community

A neighbor notices another struggling with groceries and crosses the street. A coworker pauses before a hard reply. A child says thank you and means it. Small moments like these don't happen by accident — someone helps them happen.

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Join the Movement
Become a Kindness Ambassador

Somewhere in your community, someone is holding their life together with tired hands. They don't need a slogan. They need someone to show up. Join our newest KINDR Community initiative.

Welcome to KINDR Foundation

Our Why

Today we are experiencing the highest rates of suicide, stress, depression, and loneliness in history. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people age 10-24.

jedfoundation.org 

People are reporting the highest levels of stress, sadness, physical pain, and worry since 2006. More than 300 million people don't have a single friend.

Gallup, 2022 World Happiness Report

Loneliness kills. It’s as powerful as smoking or alcoholism. 

Robert Waldinger, Harvard Medical Schoool

 

 

 

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Where kindness creates change

Our Initiatives

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KINDR Schools

Teaching and integrating kindness into behavioral expectations.
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KINDR Communities

Enriching communities by supporting kindness projects.
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KINDR Workplaces

Creating healthier workplace cultures where people thrive.
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KINDR Prisons

Developing skills that promote transformation, accountability, and compassion.
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Mindful Kindness

The Foundation of Our WORK

A data driven superpower that helps us heal, connect, and grow

Mindful Kindness isn't just a feel-good phrase. It's a teachable discipline, built on proven instructional design, and backed by a team with nearly 300 years of combined education experience. We turn that expertise into resources, curricula, and grants that bring Mindful Kindness into schools, communities, workplaces, and prisons.

Across every setting, the science is consistent: Mindful Kindness reduces loneliness, builds healthier relationships, sparks a positive mindset, and reduces acts of unkindness. It's a discipline, not a slogan, that gives people real skills to become more connected, more present, and more conscious of how they treat themselves and others.

Our Initiatives KINDR Books
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Creating Measurable Change

Our Impact

Mindful kindness fosters healthy relationships, strengthens communities, reduces stress, and helps replace negative habits with thoughtful actions, leading to greater happiness and resilience.

We call it "The Kindness Effect"

Students Reached
850k
Grants Awarded
$5M
Prisoners Reached
10k
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The Science of Kindness

Kindness is the necessary ingredient for all healthy relationships and the foundation for lasting happiness.

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