The Weekend of Kindness is a weekend full of service projects in memory of Charlotte Elizabeth Carnaghan, who was stillborn on October 21, 2017.   We will be hosting the second annual Weekend of Kindness on October 19-20, 2019.  You can join us as a supporter or a volunteer!  Supporters may contribute donations to our crews in the form of funding or supplies.  Volunteers may choose one or more crews to participate in service projects with.  Crews will include:  ​
The Elizabeth House Crew is a team of volunteers who pack lunches for the Elizabeth House Soup Kitchen.  Last year, the team gathered a surplus of supplies and was able to not only donate each of the 50 lunches with handwritten notes, but also donate an additional 6 bags of pantry items to Elizabeth House, and 6 more bags of baby items to Grassroots Crisis Center.  
The Kindness Ninjas, a stealthy crew of do-gooders who complete random (and purposeful) acts of kindness and leave behind one of Charlotte's Kindness Cards.  Last year this crew performed more than two hundred acts of kindness in three countries and eleven states.  Acts of kindness included everything from paying for a stranger's birthday cake to bringing live music into hospital rooms.
The Wrapped in Love Crew is a team of sewists who repurpose donated wedding dresses into gowns for stillborn babies.  Last year, team members created 12 care packages for bereaved parents.  Each care package included a crocheted blanket, a gown, a journal, a necklace, and many grief resources.  Packages were delivered to the labor and delivery wing with chocolates for the nurses.  
The Parks Crew, a group of green-minded friends, work together to clean up a local park and do some planting.  Last year the group picked a park that they thought was unnamed, only to realize that they were spending the morning in Fox Hill!  Even the littlest Parks Crew member, Shelby- age 1- helped out.  The Parks crew also hosted a special remembrance hike.  On this hike, they scattered plantable seed paper leaves with the names of 235 stillborn or miscarried babies.  Each name was spoken aloud before it was scattered.  ​
The Monarch Crew is a team of volunteers who gather donations of food for the Monarch Global Academy food pantry, which provides food insecure families with groceries.  Last year the team had a surplus of funds and was able to donate spare snacks to kindergarten teachers for students who had none as well as $100 to a cafeteria fund for students with negative lunch account balances.  ​

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