Category: Be a Good Sphinx

The Weekend of Kindness is a yearly event organized by Charlotte’s Purpose in memory of Charlotte Elizabeth Carnaghan, who was stillborn on October 21, 2017. Charlotte’s family invites family members, friends, and friends-they-have-yet-to-meet to do acts of kindness and service during the weekend closest to her birthday. 

The 2020 Weekend of Kindness will be October 24 – 25, 2020.

This year’s Weekend of Kindness “BIG PROJECT” is a Book Drive for Monarch Global Academy (MGA). The goal is to purchase children’s books with Black and Brown authors, main characters, and culture to be donated to MGA classrooms. You can support the 2020 Book Drive project by purchasing books from their Amazon Wish List.

Want to Host Your Own Kindness Project?
If you would like to host your own act of kindness to be included in the 2020 Weekend of Kindness, please let Charlotte’s Purpose know. You can contact them through their website, email, Twitter or Facebook page “Charlotte’s Purpose”.

No act of kindness is too small to be a part of Charlotte’s celebration and there are no limits on the types of kindness you can do.  

Need some ideas?

📌Paying for a stranger’s birthday cake at a local bakery in honor of Charlotte
📌Donating to local food pantries or drives assisting those who are food insecure
📌Creating care packages for medical staff, firefighters, and other community helpers
📌Cleaning up a public park
📌Fill a sidewalk or street with uplifting chalk messages
📌Donate blood or sign up to become an organ donor
📌Donate to causes that provide memorial items for loss-parents
📌Creating care packages for the homeless community
📌Plant a tree
📌Shovel snow or mow the lawn for a neighbor
📌Packing bag lunches or serving at a local Soup Kitchen
📌Paying for a stranger’s ice cream, coffee, or meal
📌Writing letters or making drawings for a local nursing home

To learn more about Charlotte’s Purpose, you can visit their website.

The mission of the Wrapped in Love Project is to bring comfort to bereaved parents by repurposing wedding dresses into beautiful burial gowns and pockets for babies lost before, during, or soon after birth. 

Each layette includes a handkerchief made from the same fabric as the baby’s garment.  The gowns and pockets begin as beloved wedding dresses which are donated and cleaned.  They are then patterned, stitched, & hand detailed by volunteers.  ​Layettes are added to a care package with a hand stamped “Mother and Child” necklace from the Charlotte’s Purpose Etsy Shop, a letter full of resources, “The First Days” survival guide,  a memorial baby book, a journal, pen, and “Write Your Grief” bookmark,  and special stationary for parents to write a letter to the baby.  

Get involved: Find out more by visiting the Wrapped in Love Project.

The Weekend of Kindness is a yearly event organized by Charlotte’s Purpose in memory of Charlotte Elizabeth Carnaghan, who was stillborn on October 21, 2017. Charlotte’s family invites family members, friends, and friends-they-have-yet-to-meet to do acts of kindness and service during the weekend closest to her birthday. In 2020, the Weekend of Kindness will be October 24 – 25, 2020.

The mission of Charlotte’s Purpose is to support those grieving after stillbirth. Statistically, African American women are 2.2 times more likely to suffer a tragic loss like this in the United States. This is why many of the projects selected by Charlotte’s Purpose this year are focused on the Black community. We believe that small, purposeful kindnesses can have a big impact on the future of our country, even in terms of affecting something as daunting as systemic racism which is the root of the racial disparity in stillbirth rates. One way we intend to affect positive change at a local level is to increase diversity in K-8 classroom library offerings. Equity begins with understanding and understanding begins with exposure to experiences that are different than our own. There is no better place to begin exposing children to a wealth of human experience than through literature.

Every purchase of Weekend of Kindness gear helps the Charlotte’s Purpose group stock classroom libraries at Monarch Global Academy with children’s books that feature Black and Brown authors, main characters, and culture. Every kid deserves to see themselves reflected in the classroom library!

There are two days left to order some 2020 Weekend of Kindness Gear!