A social ecosystem for kindness

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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Mindful Kindness

Teaching Mindful Kindness, Transforming Lives

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

Our Programs

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KINDR Communities

Imagine 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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Everyday kindness

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

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.

Become a Kindness Ambassador

The KINDR ecosystem

One global ecosystem, powering kindness everywhere

KINDR brings kindness organizations together with the resources, tools, services, collaborators, partners, people and businesses they need — the digital infrastructure that lets every kindness organization work together to impact the world.

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Our Impact Read the impact report

850K+

Students reached

$5M

Grants awarded

10K+

Incarcerated adults reached

~300

Years of combined education experience

Our why

The most meaningful change happens when kindness works together.

KINDR unites schools, communities, workplaces, prisons, partners and kindness organizations into one connected ecosystem — with the resources, tools and collaborators that help all of them grow.

Your kindness ecosystem

Schools build kindness into behavioral expectations, so every student feels seen.

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Why it matters

Today we are experiencing the highest rates of suicide, stress, depression and loneliness in history.

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Learn More Struggling? In the U.S., call or text 988 any time.

2nd

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people age 10–24.

Source: jedfoundation.org

300M+

People don’t have a single friend — amid the highest stress, sadness, pain and worry since 2006.

Source: Gallup, 2022 World Happiness Report

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

Robert Waldinger · Harvard Medical School

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Everything your kindness community needs, connected.

Twenty-four connected tools to build, engage, manage, grow and measure kindness — available to every member, school, partner and organization in the KINDR ecosystem.

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Build Digital Website Ecosystem

Build Beyond a Traditional Website.

A branded digital ecosystem linking your people, programs, resources, services and tools.

Build & Attract

Events Creation, Engagement & Management

Bring People Together. Create Momentum.

Event creation, promotion, registration, reminders and follow-up.

Engage & Convert

AI Agentic Copilot

Give Every User a Smarter Path Forward.

An AI copilot that helps people find answers, resources and next steps.

AI & Intelligent Assistance

Resource & Partner Network

Build Partnerships. Expand Your Impact.

Connect organizations, experts and funders to exchange referrals and resources.

Grow Your Ecosystem

6 categories · 24 connected tools

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2021 – 2025 results

700K+

students, plus 7,000+ incarcerated adults — measured against matched control groups

Mindful Kindness

Kindness isn’t a trait you’re born with. It’s a discipline we teach.

Mindful Kindness is grounded in instructional design and built by a team with nearly 300 years of combined education experience. Participants report measurable gains in life satisfaction and well-being.

Reduces loneliness

Builds real connection, one practice at a time

Improves relationships

At school, at home, at work and inside

Reduces unkind behavior

Fewer conflicts, healthier cultures

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Our initiatives

Four arenas. One practice.

Mindful Kindness meets people where they spend their days. Hover or tap an arena to go deeper.

KINDR

Schools

Builds kindness into behavioral expectations, so every student learns it, practices it and feels it.

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Communities

Supports local kindness projects and Kindness Ambassadors who make it the norm where they live.

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Workplaces

Creates healthier workplace cultures where people feel respected, connected and able to do their best work.

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Prisons

Builds skills for transformation, accountability and compassion — now grown into its own independent nonprofit.

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Evidence Advocacy Center — bringing research on kindness to policymakers, educators and the public.

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KINDR Live · Content

Stories from the kindness movement.

Follow, share and join the conversation — stories, videos, research and updates from KINDR communities everywhere.

Featured StoryBlog "Teach the World to Be Kinder", song written by: Richard Mireles Richard Mireles wrote the song "Teach the World to Be Kinder" as a tribute to Doug and Linda Carnine and their lifelong work teaching kindness.

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