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10 Chapter Books to Inspire Summer Kindness

Spend lazy summer days curled up with a book! Summer is a chance to take a deep breath, even when the schedule can feel full with fun, camps, and vacation. Slow down and spend some time reading about kindness with these summer-themed chapter books about kindness.

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9 Pictures Books to Inspire Summer Kindness
9 Pictures Books to Inspire Summer Kindness

Squeeze every last ounce of sunshine out of summer. The season is a chance to take a deep breath, even when the schedule can feel full with fun, camps, and vacation.  Slow down and spend some time reading about kindness with these sweet, summer-themed stories.

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19 Books About Immigrant and Refugee Experiences for Middle and High School Students

As our nation — along with our global community — struggles with the complicated issues of crisis migration and immigration policy, great fiction can play an essential role in helping families understand the human story behind the headlines.

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7 Children's Books to Encourage Healing After Gun Violence
7 Children's Books to Encourage Healing After Gun Violence

Whether gun violence has happened near home, or you’ve seen it in the news, the kids in your life have likely seen or heard about it, too. Children will feel a mix of confusion, sadness, and fear after these events, and most do not have the tools to process those emotions. When reading these books together, you can use them as a starting point for conversations about the hard emotions they’re feeling, and where there’s room for safety and hope.

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Volunteer in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
Volunteer in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul)

Each month, DGT™ does the research to find family-friendly volunteer opportunities in the Twin Cities (St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota and surrounding suburbs). We compile these opportunities into monthly listings to share with our subscribers and here on our website.

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Volunteer in Miami
Volunteer in Miami

Each month, DGT™ does the research to find family-friendly volunteer opportunities in Miami, Florida. We compile these opportunities into monthly listings to share with our subscribers and here on our website.

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Volunteer in Oakland/East Bay, California
Volunteer in Oakland/East Bay, California

Each month, DGT™ does the research to find family-friendly volunteer opportunities in the Oakland and East Bay areas. We compile these opportunities into monthly listings to share with our subscribers and here on our website.

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Volunteer in Seattle
Volunteer in Seattle

Each month, DGT™ does the research to find family-friendly volunteer opportunities in Seattle, Washington. We compile these opportunities into monthly listings to share with our subscribers and here on our website.

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Volunteer in Silicon Valley
Volunteer in Silicon Valley

Each month, DGT™ does the research to find family-friendly volunteer opportunities in Silicon Valley (San Jose and throughout Santa Clara County, California). We compile these opportunities into monthly listings to share with our subscribers and here on our website.

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Volunteer in Boston
Volunteer in Boston

Each month, DGT™ does the research to find family-friendly volunteer opportunities in Boston & Cambridge, Massachusetts. We compile these opportunities into monthly listings to share with our subscribers and here on our website.

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Volunteer in Baltimore
Volunteer in Baltimore

Each month, DGT™ does the research to find family-friendly volunteer opportunities in Baltimore, Maryland. We compile these opportunities into monthly listings to share with our subscribers and here on our website.

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Volunteer in San Diego
Volunteer in San Diego

Each month, DGT™ does the research to find family-friendly volunteer opportunities in San Diego, California. We compile these opportunities into monthly listings to share with our subscribers and here on our website.

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Volunteer in New York City (NYC)
Volunteer in New York City (NYC)

Each month, DGT™ does the research to find family-friendly volunteer opportunities in New York City, New York. We compile these opportunities into monthly listings to share with our subscribers and here on our website.

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Volunteer in St. Louis, Missouri
Volunteer in St. Louis, Missouri

Each month, DGT™ does the research to find family-friendly volunteer opportunities in St. Louis, Missouri. We compile these opportunities into monthly listings to share with our subscribers and here on our website.

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Fill Your Summer with Kindness
Fill Your Summer with Kindness

As you are mapping out your summer bucket list, Doing Good Together is here to help with ideas for meaningful kindness.

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50+ Kids' Gift Ideas with Kindness at Their Core
50+ Kids' Gift Ideas with Kindness at Their Core

50+ kids’ gift ideas with kindness at their core! Gift giving opportunities pop up throughout the year, from annual holiday, birthday, and anniversary celebrations, to one-time milestone moments like graduations, major accomplishments, or just because. With the overabundance of consumerism in our culture, it’s natural for parents who care about the world to want to be mindful of what they're purchasing, not wanting junk to accumulate in their homes. That’s why we assembled this tried-and-true gift guide of favorite presents with kindness at their core. You’ll find special projects and tools that keep kids busy, encourage reflection, and encourage conversations; activities, items, and games that help them explore and understand the world around them; apparel that supports good causes, and more.

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Start a Kindness Book Club: Ideas for Elementary Age Kids
Start a Kindness Book Club: Ideas for Elementary Age Kids

Everything is better with friends and a party! 

How about friends and a party and an amazing book? As a parent, September feels like a fresh start, a new year. It’s full of opportunity as the school year gears up along with a new season of activities and sports. I’m going to suggest one more thing to start this year - a big-hearted book party club! 

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Kinetic Kindness: 6 Active Ways to Get Kids Moving — While Giving Back
Kinetic Kindness: 6 Active Ways to Get Kids Moving — While Giving Back

Learn ways to include kindness lessons in educational settings and beyond! Through learning about kindness, children learn empathy and compassion and can begin viewing the world around them through the eyes of others as they appreciate diverse perspectives. By building kindness activities into regular educational practices, we prepare kids for life as an adult who cares and contributes to the world around them. If action speaks louder than words in early childhood, why not get their bodies, minds, and hearts involved in caring for their communities?

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Kindness is Sunshine
Kindness is Sunshine

July brings warmth, sunshine and the full summer experience. The hallmark of July is the warmth of the bright sun, the growth of flowers, and the energy all around us. Just like sunshine, kindness has the power to spread goodness all around and improve health in the process. Whether it is the simple sharing of a smile, lending a neighbor a helping hand, giving back to your community or creating a ripple effect of positivity, kindness provides an opportunity to spread sunshine in people’s lives. How are you and your family spreading sunshine this summer?

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Summertime Family Fun
Summertime Family Fun

As the summer starts, I have been thinking a great deal about how few summers we as parents have with our children. We only have one summer when they are infants, a few when they are toddlers, eight when they are children. The times I remember most from my childhood are the family activities done together in the times away from the routine of every day. When kindness is infused into those family activities, it makes them even more meaningful. Every summer is another opportunity to embrace this special, less-structured time we have with our kids, and a chance to enjoy the simple joys that a purpose-filled summer has to offer.

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How to Bring Kindness With You on the Road
How to Bring Kindness With You on the Road

In May, many families are preparing for summer travel, mapping out routes, planning fun excursions and dreaming about time together as a family. What if, in addition to making plans for travel, we made plans for kindness as well? There is space for kindness to strangers and one another, generosity towards others, patience at stressful moments, and connection through new experiences. This summer, let’s make kindness part of the plan.

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