If you are participating in Kindness Project Day, please RSVP to our Facebook event listing: Click here to RSVP!
See video from last year's Kindness Project Day:
Free Kindness Project Cards
are available from
July 20-27th each year.
The MISS Foundation's Dr. Cacciatore started the Kindness Project in 1996 as a way for families to cope with the tragedy of a child's death. Since then, more than 1,000,000 kindnesses have been committed around the globe in memory of children, gone too soon.
Please note:
There are two types of Kindness Project cards available any time of year:
Click single card images below to buy cards in our eStore any time of year.
Alternatively in July of each year, send a SASE to The MISS Foundation, PO Box 5333, Peoria, AZ 85385, and we'll send you several cards free!
And there are three types of Kindness Project cards available only between July 20 -27 each year:
Click single template images below to download PDF format templates compatible with Avery Business Card - Wide, 10 per sheet - any of these product numbers from Avery will work with these templates:
15871, 18871, 27871, 27881, 27882, 27883, 28371, 28865, 28873, 28876, 28877, 28878, 38871, 38873, 38876, 5371
You can print them out on your computer at home. They are available in color, but you can use the template with b&w printers and they will print just as well.
These templates are posted only between July 20 - 27, so be sure to download your copy! Otherwise you'll have to wait till next year to get your templates.
These templates will not be available again until 2012.
"...Done in loving memory of our beautiful child..."
English Language
"...Done in loving memory of..."
English Language
"...Done in loving memory of our beautiful child..."
Spanish Language
Anyone can participate in memory of anyone!
Here's what you do:
Visit the MISS Foundation's International Kindness Project Day website:
between the dates of July 20-27 each year. Please sign up for our eNews list by clicking here and we'll send you a reminder on July 20th when template are released for you to print Kindness Cards DIY at home yourself. Or as an alternative, send a SASE to The MISS Foundation, PO Box 5333, Peoria, AZ 85385, and we'll send you several cards!
Start thinking about acts of kindness - especially anonymous ones as those are the most powerful - you can commit in your neighborhood and community!
After you get your free templates (available between July 20th and 27th), print your Kindness Project cards in English or Spanish.
Share this event with others! IDEAS FOR THIS: Send email invitation to the Facebook event; print out our Kindness Project Brochure and share them around your town; do your own Kindness Project and send press releases to your local tv, radio, newspapers to spread the word.
Then- drum roll please- on July 27th of each year, go out into this world and help to created more Kindness in memory of your beloved!
We hope everyone will join us in this amazing experience! Don't worry- you can commit a Kindness Project act that costs nothing (mow someone's yard, offer a homemade gift, bring cookies to a nursing home), only your time and devotion to another!
Or, you can have fun buying Starbucks for the person in line behind you... or you can leave flowers on a strangers' door... or you can buy someone's meal at a restaurant anonymously, or you can leave a $10 bill on the ground where someone can find it wrapped around a Kindness Project card... the list is endless! See our Kindess Project Ideas page for even more!
Imagine this:
All around the world,
on this one day of the year,
mourners will be transforming their grief into a
powerful message of love, hope, peace, and kindness!
We invite you to post your ideas and your miracles at the Kindness Project Facebook page below:
and on the MISS Foundation Facebook page at:
In memory of all those who died too soon, we remember and honor them!
About the Kindness Project
The Kindness Project began
in 1996 as a way for families to honor their deceased child and
to help themselves heal. Now, years later, more than 1,000,000 Kindness Project
cards have been used around the world to perform random acts of kindness
in memory of a child, parent, friend, or spouse who died before their time.
The idea is to perform random acts of, usually anonymous, acts of kindness in
your community. A little card is left behind so that the person who benefits
from the kindness knows that someone's life and death continues to matter. This
beautiful movement has helped thousands of families to heal and find positive
outlets for their overwhelming grief.
The History of the Kindness
Project
The Kindness Project is a worldwide movement to share our children
(or other loved ones) with those who never had the honor to
meet them. Let me tell you why I am so excited about this project...
My daughter, Cheyenne, died in July of 1994. It was the worst day of
my life. I never imagined myself laughing or ever experiencing joy again.
I began to seek out ways to keep Cheyenne's memory alive to my family and
to the rest of the world: I wanted to create a legacy. I wanted people to
know that she existed and, more importantly, I wanted to help change the
lives of others because of her presence on this earth.
So I set out on various missions of random kindness. On a daily basis, I
looked for opportunities to reach out and do something unexpected and unusually
kind for someone else. Most often, strangers were the recipients of these
good deeds. I began to feel a sense of peace in knowing that Cheyenne was
the reasonfor
my enlightening.
The Kindness Project blossomed out of the extraordinary experiences I had
while doing things for others. Because truly miraculous things happen to
our spirit when we reach out to help others, I sought a way to share that
movement with others.
It is our hope that through the Kindness Project, we can make incredible
transformations within our communities, in our families, and in ourselves.
Just imagine if every person touched by death would participate in helping
to transform the world into a gentler and more altruistic world! What an
impact this would have on so many levels!
The Kindness Project reminds others that our children, and
other loved ones, are so very important to us that we are willing to extend
the life and love of our child and share it with others! It is a legacy that
transcends death. It is a legacy of love.
Kindness Stories Read stories about
how others have used the Kindness Project to share their lost
loved one with the world!
Kindess Project Ideas The first step
in Project Kindness is to seek out ways, look for
opportunities, to do something nice for someone. This takes very
little creativity, as I have found kind deeds waiting to be done
thousands of times.
Kindness Cards Here are samples of
the Kindness cards, available in two styles. Order yours today
and start spreading kindness wherever you go!
Articles - Read
articles that have appeared in local newspapers about the Kindness
Project. Random acts of kindness are showing up all over!
"Above all we must realize that each of
us
makes a difference with our life. Each of us
impacts the world around us every single
day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to
make the world a better place - or not to bother." -Jane Goodall
The M.I.S.S. Foundation is a nonprofit, 501(c)3,
international organization which provides immediate and ongoing support
to grieving families, empowerment through community volunteerism opportunities,
public policy and legislative education, and programs to reduce infant
and toddler death through research and education.
