"Forget injuries, never forget kindness" - Confucious
GK FAQ, OK? LOL
What is this? GenerateKindness.org gives away free Generate Kindness stickers to anyone who asks. It's a way of reminding others (and often oneself) to generate kindness.
Who's behind it? Just a few goodhearted people who want to see the world be a kinder place.
What's the catch? None. Ask for a sticker. Get one. Support the site if you feel so inclined.
Who pays for all this? Kind people on the interwebs make donations. The founder covers what he can.
Get Stickers
There are several ways of getting a sticker. In order of expedience:
2) Make a donation donors get a big GK sticker + a few smallies
3) Send a SASE to:
Ian Rhett
c/o Generate Kindness
912 Cole Street #273
San Francisco, CA 94117
4) Request online please note: because demand is greater than donations, online requests may take quite a long time to be fulfilled. If you really want a sticker, send a SASE, and send some stamps if you want to help!
THE IDEA
People ask for stickers, get stickers, put stickers somewhere, people see stickers, go to website, ask for stickers, and on and on forever.
The vision is to have a million stickers reminding people everywhere to be kind.
For now, our priorities are to send stickers first to people who donate, then to people who send SASE's. We send stickers to people who fill out the form on the website with whatever funds are left over from printing costs.
GK pix
Can you believe we have NO pictures of GK stickers? People keep saying they'll send 'em, but so far, we've seen exactly 1 picture on the entire interwebs of GK stickers in (in)action. Upload your pics and Tag them with GenerateKindness here:
Get GK stuff
Pretty soon, we'll have a nifty widget from CafePress that'll put our entire webstore into this little box, but for now, we'll just invite you to check out our CafePress store and buy some stuff. Proceeds pay for printing and shipping stickers.
The Backlog
119,175 stickers have been requested. about 30% from outside the US. We're working on a dynamic calculation, but printing and shipping all these stickers will cost something like $15k-$20k.
Sending stamps with your SASE is a great way to help out, since most of the cost is postage.
Buying something from The GenerateKindness Store
is the best way to support GK - gets us some $ and it also gets you some cool gear.
Teaching Kindness in Class.
(Monday, March 1, 2010:
11:22 PM) <<
I LOVE this! I'm going to send 'em stickers when I run the next batch, which is going to be soon. I'm running out. If you've mailed me a stamped envelope, I've got 'em! I've been meaning to do another video, 'cause there are a couple of really clever ones.
Anyway, check this out!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010604939_kindnessclass27m.html
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How about "Grow Two Trees With One Seed"
(Thursday, January 7, 2010:
12:38 AM) <<
The Network of Kindness
(Saturday, September 5, 2009:
3:16 PM) <<
We were looking through our Twitter followers and found a few followers who are actively generating kindness by creating networks and good works, too. Check 'em out!
Meet Brock Tully who rides his bike into towns around the world talking about kindness. We're looking for an address to send him some stickers!
Extreme Kindness is a team of four friends who also travel around together performing as many "random acts of kindness" as they can.
The Kindness Center is a guy who teaches kindness in the workplace and in school. Great story of his kindness epiphany.
Nice to see more peeps in the kindness game! Let's play! Do you know of others?
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I run an initiative called Help From Home http://www.helpfromhome.org/ which aims to encourage kind acts through micro-volunteering opportunitoes that can be done from the comfort of your own home - even while still dressed in your pyjamas!
There are over 450 positive actions to choose from which take from between 10 seconds to 30 minutes to complete.
As the tagline on the website says, 'See what you can do for the world - dressed just in your pyjamas'.
Wooo! Kindness in music!
(Tuesday, July 21, 2009:
1:27 AM) <<
http://www.myspace.com/steveplesliemusic
We saw Steve Leslie last night at the Bluebird Cafe. He's an incredible songwriter who sounds like a countrified version of James Taylor. Towards the end of an awesome set, he sang "A simple act of kindness'
"A simple act of Kindness goes a long, long way..." it's a touching song with a beautiful message.
I caught up with him after the show and asked if we could make a music video for it, and he said he'd send us an mp3 and that we could do it!
So hopefully in the near future you'll be seeing a music video for this great song!
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Hi there! Where are you coming from?
(Tuesday, June 16, 2009:
9:57 PM) <<
We got a huge spike of traffic yesterday and while the analytics gives me some idea of where people are coming from, there's a big chunk of people who are "direct referrals" meaning that you didn't click on a link in a forum or on a website somewhere, but instead maybe followed an email link, or typed the URL in directly? How'd you hear about GK? Leave a note in the comments, please!
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Hi - well I was reading in the forums at Slickdeals.net and a link to your free stickers came up.
To me, that is a real compliment to see your link in the freebies section of any website since kindness & love are two of the greatest gifts you can give anyone.
And, btw, thanks for the kind offer of the stickers!
A friend of mine posted your link on Facebook. Why don't you have a Facebook page? Or do you, and I am missing it in my search??
Thanks for the offer of stickers! I am going to put one on my car, one on my mother's car, one in my cubicle at work and give the other two to friends! I will send you pix!!
Hi I found your link on Absolute Portal. I am really glad that you are a kindness generator. There should be more of you in the world. Thank you again.
Found you through a nifty Myspace application. I'm a free-stuff whore, so naturally the app that I found you on was Free Stuff Times, haha. Anyhow, I love this idea. I tried to order some stickers, but when I did a page full of html codes came up. I don't know if my request went through or not, but the html, I assume, is a problem that should be fixed ;]
I've been placing your stickers in local geocaches. You can see a picture of the 'Patience Taught By Nature' geocache GC1MA77 at geocaching.com, Flickr & Photobucket. Truly appropriate match since GK came about to honor the life of a lost friend & this cache is dedicated to a courageous young man that lost his life shortly after saving a local boy from a child molester.
I was reading the news, like I do every morning, getting more and more depressed and it started me thinking how the only times Ive ever really felt happy were when I was helping someone else (cheesy, I know). So, I started thinking maybe there was a blog somewhere with ideas on how to generate random acts of kindness that werent trite and googled 'blogs, kindness'.
GK FAQ, OK? LOL
