Join us in our mission to extend hope, dignity, and compassion.
Kindness Initiative will be closed Friday September 11 in observance of Rosh Hashanah. Shana Tova!
Kindness Initiative invites you to do a mitzvah and help us ensure as many Jewish families as possible have the essential items they need to make a Seder dinner this Passover.
Items We Need:
Drop-off your donation of new, unopened Kosher for Passover items to kindnessG’MACH throughout the month. We warmly encourage synagogues and community groups to join us in helping meet the growing need.
If you’d prefer to sponsor a Passover meal, click here:
If you or a Jewish family you know is in need, starting March 23rd please come shop at kindnessG’MACH. All items are available at no cost. You will always be welcomed with love, dignity, and respect. Chag Sameach.
At Kindness Initiative, personal dignity means recognizing and reinforcing the inherent worth, individuality, and potential of every person we serve. Poverty, crisis, homelessness, or dependence on others can gradually erode confidence, independence, and a person’s belief in their own ability to move forward. We therefore seek not merely to provide assistance, but to restore a sense of agency, self-respect, hope, and control. Members and Clients are treated as individuals with strengths, preferences, choices, and aspirations not as problems to be solved or recipients of charity. Through respectful relationships, personalized support, meaningful choice, and opportunities to participate in their own path forward, we strive to ensure that every interaction communicates: you matter, your voice matters, you are capable, and your circumstances do not define your worth. Ultimately, dignity is restored when a person begins to see themselves not through the lens of what they lack or what has happened to them, but with renewed confidence in who they are and what they can become.
At Kindness Initiative, restoring personal dignity is not only an important outcome in itself; it is also an essential step toward rebuilding the confidence, agency, and sense of possibility that enable Members to actively participate in the tasks and decisions necessary to achieve their individually defined and aspirational goals.
Just as we expect our staff, volunteers, and service provider organizations to abide by basic civil interpersonal behavior consistent with Jewish values, we expect our Members to:
Not adhering to any of the above repeatedly may result in termination of membership privileges.
