Welcome to Artistic Kindness Week 2023! Artistic Kindness Basis® is a non-profit company based by Scrapbook.com. Artistic Kindness® works with quite a lot of organizations by means of our applications. We have now instantly impacted the lives of over 514,340 particular person individuals (and counting)!
We attempt to empower anybody in want of positivity and cheer by means of the therapeutic nature of handmade creativity. By considerate initiatives and compassionate volunteers, Artistic Kindness is bringing heat, togetherness, and happiness to tons of of hundreds of individuals across the globe.
Artistic Kindness Helps Individuals Discover Happiness and Therapeutic By
The Creation of Handmade Items.
Artistic Kindness® consists of many initiatives that we’re so so excited to share with you within the coming 12 months! For Artistic Kindness Week 2023, we’re that includes the Playing cards for Kindness® Initiative!
CARDS FOR KINDNESS® BY CREATIVE KINDNESS
A hand-crafted card for anybody who wants it.
Handmade playing cards can elevate the human coronary heart and unfold happiness. Playing cards for Kindness® is a worldwide initiative that facilities round uplifting others and spreading happiness to anybody who may use an emotional enhance, cheer, or a reminder of how beloved they’re.
Volunteer card makers from around the globe ship us handmade playing cards. Then, we distribute these playing cards to organizations that help individuals in want.
“Handmade playing cards signify care, love and tenderness. When a home made card is mixed with a handwritten message from a caregiver or nurse or volunteer, it turns into a beacon of hope. These playing cards will likely be saved, cherished and re-read time and again and plenty of of them will grow to be heirlooms.”
– McKane Davis, Scrapbook.com President
How one can Get Concerned In Playing cards for Kindness®
Are you interested by creating handmade playing cards for Playing cards for Kindness®? Under you’ll find how one can get entangled!
- You ship your handmade playing cards in our needed-themes (clean inside – with no private message) to Playing cards for Kindness® by Artistic Kindness®.
- We arrange and distribute the playing cards to most cancers foundations, hospitals, shelters, retirement properties, kids’s properties, and different organizations in want. (See our companion organizations right here.)
- The playing cards are utilized by nurses, medical doctors, employees members, counselors, mother and father, and volunteers who add handwritten messages of encouragement and love earlier than giving them to sufferers, kids, and different individuals in want.
To search out out extra data on Playing cards for Kindness® submission pointers, click on right here right here.
“Collaborating in Playing cards for Kindness® was a feel-good expertise. I used to be capable of finding a solution to give my handmade playing cards particular which means. Sending was simple and I obtained affirmation that my playing cards had been obtained and filed for distribution. I’m getting one other batch prepared proper now.”
– Playing cards for Kindness® Participant
Can I declare any bills that I incurred whereas volunteering to make Playing cards for Kindness?®
Charitable contributions could be among the best tax-saving alternatives accessible!
Once you volunteer your time to help with Playing cards for Kindness® – your bills could qualify as a charitable contribution on subsequent 12 months’s tax return (relying in your private scenario and deduction kind).
Artistic Kindness Basis is an Arizona nonprofit (EIN:88-35822253). Any donation or volunteer bills incurred since June 2022 could qualify as a charitable contribution, which can be eligible for a tax deduction relying in your particular person scenario. Please seek the advice of your tax advisor concerning your private scenario.
You could find extra data on claiming bills for Playing cards for Kindness® right here.
REAL STORIES FEATURING CARDS FOR KINDNESS®
Playing cards for Kindness® is honored to serve organizations, communities, and folks throughout the globe. Our handmade playing cards uplift hundreds who is perhaps in want of some cheer. Listening to the tales of how Playing cards for Kindness® has positively impacted recipients and companion organizations brings a smile to our faces each time.
Ron Tyson, the president and founding father of Deliver Smiles to Seniors, shared his ardour for sharing handmade playing cards to make a distinction in somebody’s life. He shares his favourite moments on episode 48 of the Life Handmade Podcast: The Energy of Handmade Playing cards: Actual Tales of Playing cards for Kindness.
Ron explains that when he first started the Deliver Smiles to Seniors program, he would communicate to cardmakers throughout the program,“You’ve got given me a brand new objective in life, you recognize, I felt like I wanted to provide again. However I did not have a solution to, I like to make playing cards, however I do not know the place to ship them. And I wind up with this pile of playing cards that I do not know, I do not know the place they will go. And, and the tales simply go, you recognize, on and on about what it is achieved for individuals. And I discuss in my, you recognize, in my podcasts, and in my guide about feeding the soul, and you recognize, and that is what I hear rather a lot from those who their handmade playing cards, you recognize, feed their soul. And which means rather a lot to me. So that is the giving aspect of it.”
“The cardboard making group has the largest coronary heart that you’ll ever see.”
Ron Tyson, President and Discovered of Deliver Smiles to Seniors
We love listening to the tales from our companion group about how our volunteer cardmakers’ handmade creations have impressed and introduced pleasure to these inside their applications:
“WOW!!! The playing cards arrived at present, and they’re stunning!! Such an awesome number of playing cards too! We will not wait to share them with our seniors. We beginning a pen pal program, and plenty of of those playing cards will likely be excellent for that! Thanks a lot for reaching out to us.”
– Rhonda Darby- Meals on Wheels Montgomery County – Neighborhood Applications Supervisor
‘”We obtained our order of Playing cards for Kindness at present…..what a considerate and wonderful reward! I’ve gone by means of all of them, and they’re completely stunning! We’re so excited to have the ability to use these to assist have fun visitors staying on the Ronald McDonald Home! Thanks so very a lot! We’re actually grateful!”
– Ronald McDonald Home Charities – Western Montana – Teresa Windham – Improvement & Volunteer Coordinator.
“We obtained the playing cards final week. What an incredible blessing! These playing cards are unbelievable and will likely be such a blessing to our church household. Our employees has been blown away as they’ve walked into my workplace and witnessed me working to arrange them by their sentiments. In addition they impressed me to make some playing cards of my very own with my daughter this summer time. So enjoyable occasions with all my scrapbooking stuff (that I have never touched in years) lie forward!”
– Blessings, Andee Coppel Workplace
Take heed to episodes of the Life Handmade Podcast That includes Playing cards for Kindness®
Collectively we are able to elevate hearts around the globe with handmade creativity and kindness and make a distinction in so many lives. We have now already obtained and delivered hundreds of playing cards, and we’re simply getting began. We can not do it alone.
Share your Playing cards
We love seeing your handmade playing cards which might be despatched to our companion organizations, and we all know others would like to see them too! You possibly can share all your stunning tasks in our Gallery! Under are some examples of playing cards created for the Playing cards for Kindness® Initiative!
The Final Playing cards For Kindness Class to get you began!
Be a part of 10 Designers to Create 10 Playing cards for Kindness® on this 10-part collection! You’ll get an insider look into the artistic strategy of 10 celebrated card makers who’re becoming a member of us to create handmade playing cards for Playing cards for Kindness. You’re invited into the private craft areas of those unbelievable designers as they share their favourite card making ideas and methods. Discover this free class right here.
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