About Magnify Kindness
- Our Mission
Creating Ripples of Kindness That Transform Communities
Magnify Kindness exists to spark simple acts of compassion that inspire others to do the same — creating a ripple effect of kindness that grows, multiplies and transforms communities.
We partner with businesses, schools, clubs and cooperatives, provide guidance materials, share ideas for random acts of kindness, and help with funding. We want to make it easy to share kindness.
- Our Story
It All Started With $20
For over 30 years, our founder led a technology advisory firm in the Washington, DC suburbs. Through the hard work of a dedicated team, the firm was blessed to grow profitably every year, and to be recognized as a top workplace more often than almost any other company in the region. But technology doesn’t always work — and when it doesn’t, it causes great stress for everyone involved, including the team.
About 25 years ago, our family walked into a church service and each of us was handed a $20 bill — bet that’s never happened to you. The pastor preached a simple message: life can be hard sometimes, but if you take the focus off yourself and love your neighbor, your worries dissipate and you feel better yourself. The $20 was a challenge to go out and share kindness without hesitation.
In the following weeks, the stories were overwhelming. Sometimes it was a single act of letting somebody know that they are seen. Sometimes, with amazing creativity, $20 became an initiative that impacted dozens of people.
At the company, we ran a similar Random Acts of Kindness challenge many times over the years. You can see some of those efforts at myarg.com/kindness. Every single time, we came away boosted, energized, and hopefully making a little difference in the lives of others.
- How It Works
Kindness Programs
Magnify Kindness now sets out to introduce a kindness program into various organizations – businesses, schools, clubs, cooperatives, etc. We will partner with these organizations, provide guidance materials, share ideas for random acts of kindness, and help with funding. We want to make it easy to share kindness.
Tell us whether you’re a volunteer, school, business, or community partner.
- What We Don't Do
Focused on people, not politics.
We are focused on humans, not animals. There are wonderful organizations that support animals — our focus is impacting people.
And having lived in the Washington, DC region, we do not engage in politics or advocacy. We’re not trying to impact people through those kinds of efforts. We want to make an impact directly, person to person.
“We cannot all do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
— Mother Teresa
