CommonKindness - Saves you money and supports your favorite charities and causes - at no cost to you!

About Us

During these challenging economic times people are increasingly seeking simple and innovative ways to save money. Similarly, the non-profit organizations that do so much to support our local communities are struggling to raise money as traditional funding mechanisms evaporate. At the same time, businesses are struggling to maintain their sales and stay in business.

CommonKindness has created a new business model to satisfy these needs, creating a sustainable partnership between people, the charities they care about and businesses.

With CommonKindness, you can save money by clipping valuable, free coupons and discovering free community services available to you in your local community. Best of all, every time you clip coupons CommonKindness provides funds to support your favorite charities and causes - at no cost to you!

CommonKindness shares 20% - 66% of funds received with the organizations you select, allowing you to help create a sustainable funding stream for the charities and causes you care about most while you save money.

How CommonKindness Works

  1. Sign in to select your charities
  2. Clip coupons to save money
  3. Companies pay an advertising fee to CommonKindness
  4. CommonKindness shares 20% - 66% of funds received with the organizations you select - at no cost to you!

CommonKindness is completely free of charge to both non-profits and the public.

CommonKindness doesn't spend much on advertising so that we can give more to the charities and causes you care about. Please help us spread the word about CommonKindness and tell all your friends, family and colleagues.

Everyone benefits from CommonKindness.

Board of Directors

Charlyn BelluzzoDr. Charlyn Belluzzo is a doctor of public health and tropical medicine and has earned an MBA degree. She is also the owner of Amorosa Bella, an online luxury marketplace. She and her husband, Rick, a technology executive, live in San Francisco, CA. Together, they find fulfillment in philanthropy and humanitarian service in developing regions of the world as well as in their local community.

Charlyn earned graduate degrees and received post-graduate training from LaSalle University, University of Colorado School of Business, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Charlyn is author of "Authentic Sensual Living”. She is an expert in global health research, business leadership, and economic development and is a frequent speaker and panelist at international forums and conferences.

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Calandra CruickshankCalandra Cruickshank serves as President for CommonKindness, Inc. Calandra served as director of operations for Good Deed Foundation. Calandra grew GDF's Constituent Marketing program from its inception, managing the recruitment and engagement of hundreds of non-profit organizations representing more than 80 million members nationwide to proactively support products and services carrying the Good Deed logo. Calandra also managed GDF's licensing program, whereby GDF partnered with national consumer product companies, retailers and service providers to include the Good Deed logo on their packages, as well as GDF's comprehensive media and marketing strategy. Prior to her work with GDF, Calandra used her background in communications to help create and grow a unique model of community journalism, engaging attention and support for local and political issues and initiatives, particularly around environmentally-sustainable community growth. Calandra began her career as a journalist, working as a political reporter for the Legislative Gazette in Albany, NY and later as a business reporter for the Daily Camera in Boulder, CO. She has a B.S. in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Roberta Mac DonaldRoberta MacDonald Thirty years of consumer product and trade marketing experience, including the last twenty for Cabot Creamery Cooperative of Vermont where she serves as the company’s SVP of Marketing. MacDonald previously served with the Vermont Department of Commerce – recruited by then Governor Madeline Kunin – to become the state’s first-ever Marketing Director where she designed the interagency “Market Vermont” program. Prior to moving to Vermont, MacDonald served as a marketing consultant to the San Francisco Opera, National Endowment for the Arts, American Express, CBS, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and several emergent technology and biotech companies. MacDonald’s creativity has been nationally recognized, and she has been rewarded with many national advertising and package design honors, including the Best Public Relations Campaign and Best Newspaper Advertising Campaign for Cheese, awarded by the International Dairy Foods Association. With Cabot, MacDonald prides herself on working to support farm families throughout New England and upstate New York. She serves as Chair of the National Cheese Institute’s Marketing Committee and is an Advisory Board Member for the National Kidney Registry. She is also a frequent volunteer in the kitchen for the local hospice.

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Andrew MartinAndrew McGovern Martin is Founding Chairman of CommonKindness. He has extensive experience creating successful US and international corporations. Andrew served as the founding chairman and former CEO of both SmartFood Corp. and Annie's Inc. SmartFood became a case study at Harvard Business School and was eventually sold to Pepsico/Frito Lay Corp. Under Andrew's leadership Annie's Inc. acquired Raw Materials Corp. and Tamarind Tree Corp and was sold to Solera Capital in 2002. Andrew serves as chairman and strategic director for Kea Corp. Ltd., a New Zealand based international management company. He is also chairman of the Tauroa Organic Education Trust, a 750 acre fully operational organic horticulture, sheep and cattle farm, wildlife preserve, and organic education center in New Zealand. Andrew has been the founding director of numerous non-profit programs for the homeless, women, children, education and the environment. Some of these projects include the "Bottle Bag" program for the homeless, "Be-Green", an environmental awareness program, Support American Volunteer Efforts (S.A.V.E.), and Annie's Scholarships Programs. Andrew has received multiple awards for philanthropy and service to the community. He also has several US and international patents, and intellectual property certificates. He has been a speaker at a variety of engagements on the subject of Human Rights, Business Formation, and Democratic Economics.

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Larry MoskowitzLarry Moskowitz is universally regarded as "Architect of Video Public Relations". Larry founded Medialink in 1986 and steered the innovative startup to its current status as a leader in providing news and marketing media services for its 750 communications clients worldwide.

As President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Medialink, Larry was voted one of the most influential communications executives of the 20th Century by PR Week magazine following his being named New York Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young LLP. He established key standards for video news releases, television station usage monitoring and the modern paradigms for domestic and international distribution. Soon after Medialink's inception, he worked closely with the Radio-Television News Directors Association to establish a code of ethics based on full disclosure for broadcast PR video.

Larry began his professional career as a reporter and editor at United Press International. He later served as a foreign correspondent before starting his first business, a newswire service later acquired by a large media company.

Married to a deaf professional actress, he is fluent in American Sign Language, which helps him "feel words in my hands and see phrases in the air." A graduate of the Journalism School at Pennsylvania State University and a former professor of investigative journalism at Temple University, he is a frequent speaker in the United States and Europe on topics including the emergence of new marketing paradigms, communications technology and global news broadcasting.

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Heather SmithHeather Smith was "born green" and is a dedicated environmentalist, soil biologist and co-founder and managing director of Tauroa Station, a 750-acre organic, biodynamic farm in New Zealand that teaches organic agriculture to students and visitors from around the world. Heather previously worked with Earth Island Institute, documenting black market trade of endangered species in Vietnam and reporting to the US government and non-profit organizations. Heather has also worked on conservation and habitat restoration in Alaska and Hawaii, helping to preserve endangered species. Heather holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Vermont.

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Advisory Board

Brendan Cruickshank, vice president of Juju.com, former senior director of sales of Indeed.com

Mike Hoffman, Chairman of Changing Our World

Sal LaGreca, Former Vice Chairman Finance and Operations and CFO for McCann Worldgroup

Kindness

"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another... A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."

- Amelia Earhart

 

Testimonials

....you get to clip and save through online coupons and brand discounts but unlike other sites, this one allows you to give back a little something to
non-profits in need....  BlissTree.com

 

Wow!  I can save money and at the same time help my daughter's PTO.  Thank you for offering such a great program.

- Mert Cook, Marshall, VA

 

Thank you for offering an alternative method of fundraising.  It is so hard these days to ask people for money.  I will not have a problem passing this information to my friends and family because I am saving them money and at the same time they can support my granddaughter's swim team.

-Alice Burnett, Ellensburg WA

 

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