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We got to meet Geno, who was rescued by Animal Ark shelter in Hasting, Minnesota (he’s available for adoption, btw – check out  http://www.animalarkshelter.org) who is at the Nonprofit Technology Conference as a “Puppy Break”.  Interacting with an animal at a technology conference is grounding and healing, to say the least.  Generating Kindness without even trying.

Kindness is for the dogs (too).

Generate Kindness drops at the Nonprofit Technology Conference.  Probly 300 stickers in total, dropped in random places around one of our favorite conferences of the year.  Are you checking us out from the NTC?  Want to help the project?  Take a picture of your sticker on whatever you stick it to and tag it #generatekindness.  Tweet it or not.  The goal is to make the Generate Kindness message visible, so show the world what you’ve got!  (Thanks Marah from the Girl Scouts for the great conversation and the pic!)

Generating Kindness at the Nonprofit Technology Conference

Sometimes Generating Kindness can be as easy as looking at someone and smiling. It might mean doing something as difficult as forgiving someone for a hurt or an injustice. Some might say that the act of forgiving oneself is perhaps the hardest to do. We hold ourselves to such high standards – often much higher than we hold anyone else. And when we fall down and fail to meet our own expectations, even (or especially) when we fall down and fail to meet “reasonable” expectations, the self-criticism and shame can be paralyzing. Any moment of self-criticism is an opportunity to practice compassion for oneself. It’s on old saying that carries a lot of truth – “In order to love anyone else you must first love yourself”. Generating Kindness can be a balm to the soul – an act of inner healing and a whelming feeling of love. And for whatever reason, offering this to ourselves often seems a lot harder than offering to others. But we must find a way to be kind to ourselves. Generating Kindness starts with each of us.

“There is only one rule I know of: You’ve got to be kind.”
- Kurt Vonnegut

Guy hitchhiking across the US, writing a memoir “The Kindness of America” is shot in Montana.

http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/31179462/detail.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook

UPDATE: Turns out he did it himself as a desperate act of self-promotion. Also very saddening.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/15/ray-dolin-shot-self-for-kindness-of-america-promotion_n_1601157.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news

The intersection of Nashville’s creative community and nonprofits to talk about how the creative community can support nonprofits and how nonprofits can be more creative. Dropped about 25 small stickers.

I dare you to watch this and not be moved and inspired.

the world would suck.

Should mention that we’re finally back online. We’ve had quite a bit of unwelcome interference in our work with some hackers who diverted GenerateKindness traffic to an affiliate site. Thanks to the quick work of Stefano Ivan Stinga, an Italian WordPress security expert we found on oDesk, Generate Kindness has been restored and re-secured. So hopefully things from here on out will be smoother and we can get to the development of some new features at GenerateKindness which we think will help create a sustainable source of income to support the printing and distribution of stickers.

There were strategic GK drops at the 12th Annual Non Profit Technology Conference in San Francisco (which was the city that gave birth to GenerateKindness). It was a delight to watch the geeks for good grabing up from piles dropped at some of the many parties held over the three day conference. Sadly, no pictures. We know that in order to generate pictures, we have to be the change we want to see.