Kim · Kindness in Motion
Kim. Kindness in motion.
When someone faces a hard year, Kim keeps their circle organised: one calendar, one note a week, the invitations sent. People do the showing up.
Kim is software, and says so every time.
Ana’s tree
The calendar · this week
- ThuA mealTaken by Sam
- FriA note on the treeLeft by Marta
- SatA lift, in the morningTaken by Lucía
This week on Ana’s tree: a meal, a lift and a note on the tree. Some things are on the calendar for next week. Slow is still growing.
Love from, Kim
Kim is software, not a person.
How a tree starts
Like a leaving card. Kim starts it. Their people sign it.
Everyone knows how a leaving card works: someone starts it, everyone signs, and it arrives as one surprise. A Tree of Hope works the same way, for a hard year instead of a last day.
01
Someone notices
A friend, a pastor or a colleague sees someone facing a hard year and asks Kim to start a tree. Kim never contacts the family first.
02
Kim starts the card
Kim sets the tree up as a draft, on a Kindness in Motion credit, so no tree waits for anyone’s money.
03
Their people sign
The organiser signs first and passes it on, only to people who know them. Each takes a seat for a year.
04
The town gives too
Like the café that sends pastries, one local business in each trade gives alongside them. Its name stays outside the glass.
05
The gift arrives
On a Kindness Sunday the tree is given, every name already in it. Your people made this. No reply needed.
What Kim does
Kim does the organising. People do the showing up.
Four jobs, done quietly, so the people around someone can spend their time on that someone. Every line Kim sends is a fixed one, filled from the record.
01
Starts the tree
Someone asks. Kim sets the tree up as a draft, for them alone. Nothing is shared until they share it.
To the person who askedYour tree is started, as a draft. Nobody can see it yet. When you are ready, tell me who it is for, where, and the day it opens.
Love from, Kim
Kim is software, not a person.
02
Keeps the rota and the calendar
What the family says would help this week, and who has taken it. Never a list of who has not.
To the circleOn the calendar this week: a meal on Thursday, taken by Sam, and a lift on Saturday morning. Tuesday afternoon is still open.
Love from, Kim
Kim is software, not a person.
03
Writes the week note
One short note on Sunday evening. True, from the record, never a request. A quiet week counts too.
To the circle, on SundayThis week on Ana’s tree: a quiet one. Nothing on the calendar next week yet. Slow is still growing.
Love from, Kim
Kim is software, not a person.
04
Sends the invitations
To the people named by whoever started the tree, and nobody else. One message each; a STOP is always honoured.
To the people namedAna’s friends have started a tree for her, and asked Kim to write to you. It is a private circle of people who know her, each promising to show up across a year. Your seat is here when you are ready.
Love from, Kim
Kim is software, not a person.
For people
A seat in their circle. For a year.
You take a seat when someone who knows them invites you. It is a promise to show up across the year: a meal, a lift, a note. Kim keeps the calendar.
- A year
A seat is a promise to show up for twelve months. Pause any time money is hard.
- $1 a day
From a dollar a day, monthly or for the year, after you have been invited. Only people who know them are invited.
- $0
The family pays nothing, and nothing a supporter pays goes to them as money.
For local businesses
Root your town’s tree.
Every Tree of Hope town has one root in each trade. Your business gives alongside the people, like the café that sends pastries, and its name stays on the outside of the tree: with the kindness of your business.
Kindness in Motion is a paid service of Tribe Giving LLC, a for-profit company. It is not a charity.
- One per trade
One florist, one bakery, one garage in each town. When a trade is taken, it is taken for the year.
- Outside the glass
Your name on the town’s tree and its page. You never see who is inside, and nobody inside is ever named to you.
- Easter 2027
This season’s Founding Roots also pay for Hope, the care software every family in the town gets free at Easter, and earn the Kim mark when it arrives. If it is late, the software part is refunded.
For employers
Put kindness in motion.
When someone on your team faces a hard year, the people around them want to show up and rarely know how. Kim gives them one calendar and one note a week. They do the rest.
Kindness in Motion is a paid service of Tribe Giving LLC, a for-profit company. It is not a charity.
- A year
Kindness in Motion for your company for twelve months, renewed only when you say so.
- Your people
Circles for anyone on your team facing a hard year. The company never hears a name from Kim.
- Easter 2027
Hope, free to every family in your circles, and the Kim mark when it arrives. A person on our team signs the agreement.
This season
The Kindness Season. Thanksgiving to New Year.
Sun 29 Nov
Kindness Sunday
One morning when every church in the season gives its trees.
Every Sunday
Kindness Sundays
After that, every tree is given on a Sunday, in its own church.
1 Dec
Giving Tuesday
Local businesses give with the kindness of their town.
Easter 2027
Hope arrives
The care software, free to every family, in every tree.
For partners
The operating system for kindness.
Kindness already moves between people. It fades because nobody keeps it organised. Kim is the behavioural operating system that does: it notices, proposes, confirms and keeps the record, the same way for one person, one circle, one church, one town or one company.
The operating system
Kim
The voice, the rules and the record. Kim proposes; people decide.
How it reaches people
Tree of Hope
A year of a circle around someone facing a hard year, paid for by the people in it and the businesses around it.
The software the family keeps
Hope
Appointments, notes and the people ready to help, free to them for good. Arriving Easter 2027.
Built to travel: to other countries and to other hard years. If you want Kim where you are, write to us.
Where Kim works
One voice, in three places.
Care circles · United States
Tree of Hope
A private circle around one person facing a serious illness, open for a year. A paid service; the family and the five held seats pay nothing.
The house
Live well, give back. In the house, Kim is the guide: one small thing for today, and the page that goes with it.
Businesses and communities
Roots where you are
A local business or a community can root a year where it is, paid in advance, its name on the outside and never inside. To a business, Kim never signs: a named person does.
The promises
Kim is software. It says so, every time.
- Kim is software. Every message from Kim says it is from Kim.
- Kim never pretends to be a person: not a colleague, a nurse or a counsellor.
- Nothing Kim writes is medical advice.
- When a person at the company writes to you, that person signs their own name.
Kim is made by Tribe Giving LLC, the company behind Tree of Hope and VIVE. The service Kim runs on is called Kindness in Motion, and it is part of ViveKind. Kim is its voice.
Everything Kim will and will not do
What Kim will do
- Start every tree, as a draft, for the person who asked.
- Write to the five people named for the held seats by whoever started the tree.
- Keep the calendar: what the family says would help this week, and who has taken it.
- Write one note a week to the circle, on Sunday evening, from the record. Short, true, never a request.
- Send the invitations the person who started the tree asks for, and nothing else.
- Say what it is, every time: Kim is software.
What Kim will not do
- Pretend to be a person, a colleague, a nurse or a counsellor.
- Give medical advice, or say anything about anyone’s condition, treatment or chances.
- Count who has not helped. No lists of absences, no streaks, no leaderboards, no comparing one week with another.
- Set a deadline. Kim gives a date. A tree opens on the 3rd; it does not close on anything.
- Name anyone inside a tree to anyone outside it. A business, a room, a stranger: none of them hears a name from Kim.
- Write a sentence of its own. Every line Kim sends is a fixed one, filled from the record.
- Read the family’s journal. Kim never sees it.
Partners, employers and press
Talk to us.
If you care for people, run a community, or lead a company that wants to show up for its own, write to us. A person reads every note and answers with their own name.
hello@treeofhope.com