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Check out the many ways to serve those in need through KindWorks activities and sign up today to help us help our community!
KindSoupDigital EmpowermentShelter SupportAdopt-a-RoadWelcome HomeFood DistributionKind ConversationsSummer Fun Stuff
Join us online Monday evenings, as we cook delicious soups and stews together from our own homes. Make enough for your dinner, and extra to donate to families in need! Features different recipes and chef leaders every week.
Help level the digital playing field by donating your used computer to be refurbished by our team and then distributed, free of charge, to individuals, families, and organizations that need these tools.
Combine forces with other KindWorks volunteers to bring provisions for meals and birthday celebrations for women staying at two local transitional housing centers operated by Interfaith Works.
Pick up litter or pull weeds at one of our weekend volunteer outings dedicated to caring for our Adopt-a-Road areas in Germantown and Bethesda. Sign up to join us—and bring your friends, family, and/or friendly dogs!
Welcome refugees and other families and individuals resettling in our area. You can help by donating household goods and other essentials or volunteering to set up warm new homes for our new neighbors.
Pack boxes of food for those in need, deliver them, and/or help with related tasks at a local food assistance provider. Opportunities to serve in Germantown and Bethesda.
Listen, learn, and explore topics with a diverse group of individuals through KindConversations, a new KindWorks program aimed at helping participants to explore their shared humanity.
Collect, donate, or sort and pack craft supplies, books, STEM-related toys, outdoor equipment, and other “Summer Fun Stuff” for children in the DC area. Learn more …
Upcoming Projects
Next Opportunities to Serve
Temple Emanuel’s KindSoup Butternut Squash Soup to Share With Others
April 28 @ 5:00 pm-6:00 pm
Virtual Gathering
Join KindChef Lisa to make a Butternut Squash Soup for Temple Emanuel’s Sunday KindSoup. All a...
Bake Casseroles for MoCo Reconnect
April 29-May 1
MoCo Reconnect Drop-In Center
Join our team preparing nutritious and delicious casseroles for the individuals served by the MoCo R...
Make Soupe au Pistou to Share With Others
April 29 @ 5:00 pm-6:00 pm
Virtual Gathering
Join KindChef Deb to make a Soupe au Pistou (based on this recipe from Food52 by Jody Williams.) Aft...
Deliver Meal Items to the Women’s Shelter in Rockville
May 1
IW Women’s Center at Taft
Help put together a delicious taco dinner and/or supply breakfast items for the next morning for 38 ...
Sort and Pack Summer Fun Stuff Donations
May 2 @ 3:00 pm-5:30 pm
JCC Rockville
Help sort and pack Summer Fun Sacks for children in our area. All donations will be stored, sorted, ...
Deliver Weekend Lunch to the Women’s Shelter in Derwood
May 4
IW Women’s Center at Crabbs Branch
Help provide lunches for 38 women at the Interfaith Works Women’s Center in Derwood. Bagged lunche...
KindSoup for Students – Make Red Lentil with Cauliflower Soup to Share With Others
May 5 @ 5:00 pm-6:00 pm
Virtual Gathering
Join KindChef Deb online for KindSoup for Students as we make Red Lentil with Cauliflower (based on ...
Bake Casseroles for MoCo Reconnect
May 6-May 8
MoCo Reconnect Drop-In Center
Join our team preparing nutritious and delicious casseroles for the individuals served by the MoCo R...
Make Spanish White Bean Soup to Share With Others
May 6 @ 5:00 pm-6:00 pm
Virtual Gathering
Join KindChef Deb to make a Spanish White Bean Soup (based on this recipe from Spain on a Fork.) Aft...
Jody Williams, the chef and owner of beloved New York City restaurant Buvette and co-owner of Via Carota with her partner Rita Sodi, makes her Soupe au Pistou with unusual—and very effective—restraint. There’s no sautéeing. Just water, no stock. Not even garlic in the pistou. You pile every last vegetable into a pot with water and then leave it alone to simmer for a good while. Yet what you get is still a bowl of rich, spoonable vegetables, not suffering from skirting the crowd. - - make it with us on Monday at 5pm over zoom
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We're gearing up for the May 2nd Summer Fun sack packing afternoon at the Rockville JCC. We'd love you to join us! Click here (dokindworks.org/project/sort-and-pack-summer-fun-stuff-donations-5/) to help fill 2000 sacks for area youth.
Donations are welcome!! ... See MoreSee Less
Gotta love our Board of Directors!
Even with furniture moves, KindSoup making, English Conversation Classes, Summer Fun Stuff sorting parties, KindCasseroles, and refurbished computers and bikes being given to folks in need... even on a typical week like this one - They make time to gather to celebrate Yaa (who keeps our office running) and the impending birth of her baby!! 💕 ... See MoreSee Less
Meet: Zach
(one of our amazing bike refurbishers)
Last week Zach gave a bike that he had cleaned up to an Afghan dad just in time for his daughter’s birthday- and she couldn’t have been more delighted!
Then he gave 3 other families bikes on Monday- so that they too could enjoy this gorgeous spring weather
Yesterday he picked up 2 more bikes to work on
Thanks Zach: you are making newcomers happy (and healthy), one bike at a time!! 💕 ... See MoreSee Less
Not only were our English Conversation Class teachers spending an hour and a half with 15 Afghan women today who want to improve their English skills, but they also brought 2 carloads of small furniture and household goods for newly arrived families! KindWorks volunteers are the best!! 💕 ... See MoreSee Less
Orijin™: We can’t thank you enough! 200 tablets no longer going to the landfill, but instead will be refurbished and given to 200 families starting over - so they can learn English, and/or update their resumes, and/or take classes, apply for jobs, and/or keep in touch with friends and family....
Thanks so very much for enabling us to use your no longer needed resources for the good of community! You truly are changing lives, one tablet at a time!! ❤️ ... See MoreSee Less
Job search: careercatchers.org/community-resources-and-job-opportunities-email-subscription/?sm_guid=NzI5OTc0...
Classes:
⁃ https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/enroll/
⁃ https://irp.cdn-website.com/dcb60014/files/uploaded/MCAEL%20WinterSpring%20Class%20List%20(3).pdf
Medical Care: www.accesshears.com
Legal Services: dokindworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Legal-Aid-Bureau.pdf
Diapers: www.theclothoption.org/apply
Clothes: goodsforgooddc.org/g4g-clothing-request-form/ ... See MoreSee Less
We had a great time talking to members at the Potomac Presbyterian Church today about how KindWorks can help us be better stewards of our planet- for Earth Day tomorrow and for everyday! ... See MoreSee Less