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May | June 2023 Newsletter: Welcome, 2023 C4K Fellows!

At a spectacular virtual Call For Kindness (C4K) celebration held May 6, on Riley's birthday, we announced the new cohort of forty C4K Fellows and eighteen Continuation Grant Recipients. Young changemakers talked about the positive impact the C4K has had on their lives and development as leaders.

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March | April 2023 Newsletter: Springing into Kindness!

Hello Spring! As the weather keeps getting warmer, Riley's Way continues to grow and support our community of youth changemakers. From an impactful networking workshop to the launch of our 2023 Call For Kindness, Riley's Way is committed to leading today for a kinder tomorrow. Read our March/April newsletter to learn more about what our youth changemakers have been up to and to see how Riley's Way is springing into kindness!

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Jan | Feb 2023 Newsletter: Kindness, Empathy, & Inclusivity In Action

At Riley’s Way, we continue to grow our community of young changemakers determined to lead with kindness, empathy, and inclusivity in action. We are grateful to supporters like you who enable us to provide young people with life-changing experiences and opportunities in their ongoing kind leadership journeys. Read below to learn more about what these young changemakers have been up to lately. We promise it will leave you full of hope and inspiration! We’re better when we’re together.

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Nov | Dec 2022 Newsletter: Happy Holidays!

2022 has been an eventful year at Riley's Way — from new births and new hires to new initiatives and even a few weddings! It has also been a tough year in a nation marked by ongoing health and social challenges, senseless gun violence, and political divisions. Still, through it all, our hope for the future remains strong. Why, you ask? Here’s our reason: our community of young changemakers, staff, board members, donors, and friends continue to remind us that when the going gets tough, do it #RileysWayStyle! What this means is building a better world that values kindness, empathy, connection, and the voices of all youth. Doing it #RileysWayStyle is our winning recipe for hope.

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THE MIC DROP: LISTEN + AMPLIFY WITH EMPATHY

GET READY! Our fourth annual Youth Leadership Retreat: THE MIC DROP: LISTEN + AMPLIFY WITH EMPATHY is happening in person this year. We’re excited to bring together 100 young women and gender-expansive youth for a fun weekend of advocacy and activism at Timber Lake Camp in Shandaken, NY, from September 30 - October 2, 2022.

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July/August 2022: Nothing Is Im-Popsicle! The potential of young leaders is limitless!

Despite record-breaking heat waves across the country and around the world, we hope you're finding ways to stay calm, cool, and collected. One sure way to beat the heat is to find some shade, curl up with this newsletter, and learn about all the cool things Riley's Way’s young leaders are doing to bring positive change to their communities.

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May/June 2022: Ready for Sunshine!

With summer fast approaching, many of us are eagerly looking for ways to infuse sunshine into our lives. Against the backdrop of senseless gun violence, acts of racially-fueled hate, an ongoing pandemic, wars, and more, it’s easy to lose track and feel a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. But that’s not Riley’s Way…

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Take A Deep Breath – And Keep Fighting

Dear Riley’s Way Community, We are struggling with the words to match this moment. The United States Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade – the landmark 1973 ruling that ensured the constitutional right to abortion – has left many of us, including our young leaders, angry, heartbroken, scared – and demanding justice. Photo Credit: Aiden Frazier.

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A Path Forward By Ian Sandler

In honor of Father’s Day this weekend, and for anyone who has experienced loss and is looking for a path forward, please read the following moving essay by Riley’s Way's Co-Founder, Board Chair, and proud father of Riley Hannah Sandler, Ian Sandler.

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March/April 2022: Young Changemakers in Action

Happy Spring! We hope you’ll enjoy this edition of your Riley’s Way newsletter. Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication as we build a movement for kindness, together. Introducing our new Visionaries initiative and Riley's Way young leaders featured in the podcast Sincerely, Hueman!

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Jan/Feb 2022: Moving Full Speed Ahead!

We’re so glad to have you by our side as we move full speed ahead in 2022!

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January 2022: There’s So Much to Look Forward to in 2022 at Riley’s Way!

There's so much to look forward to in 2022 at Riley's Way! As we move into the new year, we're focused on building a kinder, better world — and strengthening our commitment to young leaders.

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October/November Newsletter: We are Grateful for You!

As Thanksgiving approaches, we are filled with gratitude. We are thankful for the impact our students are making, the inclusive community they are creating, and for all of you, our supporters!

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August/September Newsletter: Care to Connect

This time of year we take time to remember Riley Hannah Sandler and are driven by her spirit of kindness and friendship in all that we do, especially as we envision the future of Riley's Way.

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June/July Newsletter: Celebrating Youth Voices

At Riley's Way we are celebrating our teens, Alumni, staff and teachers for being true kind leaders during what was an unprecedented school year.

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Celebrate the new Call For Kindness Fellows!

Watch the announcement of the winners of the 2021 Call for Kindness!

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Happy New Year!

Riley's Way wishes you a happy and healthy New Year!

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August Newsletter

August Newsletter: remembering Riley and looking forward, intern spotlights, social media highlights, and Riley's Way in the news

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July Newsletter

July Newsletter: social media highlights, project spotlight, new staff welcome, and kicking off the Call for Kindness

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Be Inspired by Kindness in 2020!

Read hopeful reflections on 2020 from Riley's Way teens.

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Double your impact this Giving Tuesday!

Giving Tuesday is a Riley's Way kind of holiday, because our collective acts make our world a better, kinder place. Join millions of people across the world today in building a massive wave of generosity that will flood into 2021.

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We are Grateful for you!

We are grateful for this moment and the meaningful connections, old and new, this year has brought us. The kindness, creativity, purpose, and leadership the Riley’s Way teens, and team, demonstrated is nothing short of inspiring.

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Riley’s Way Fall Newsletter

This year, especially during the holiday season, connections with others are more meaningful than ever before. At Riley's Way, we are finding new and innovative ways to connect safely and purposefully with our community.

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Kind Leadership Series: Giving Tuesday Spark on 11/23

Join us for for our free Kind Leadership Series, featuring Dante Plush, Director of Youth Engagement and Outreach at Giving Tuesday, to learn more about the movement and how youth from around the world can be involved.

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Riley’s Way Virtual Youth Leadership Retreat 2020

Around the world, we are watching as teens push movements forward like climate-change and racial equity. The Riley's Way Youth Leadership Retreat is a shared space for young women who are change-makers in their communities to come together, network, and grow their leadership skills.

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Remembering Riley and Looking Forward

As we move into our 7th year at Riley's Way Foundation, we are reminded that Riley's spirit of kindness and friendship is at the heart of everything we do. Riley Hannah Sandler continues to inspire us and our work each and every day. We are filled with hope for what lies ahead as our mission of kindness and empathy is more important than ever. Thank you all for being part of it!

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Summer Reading

Happy Summer! We hope you add Riley's Way to your summer reading by following us on social media and taking a few minutes to read about what we have been working on below. Hear from some Riley's Way Call for Kindness winners and get teen recommendations for summer reading and viewing.

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Congratulations to our graduating seniors!

At Riley's Way, the past months have been about listening, reflection, action and celebration. We continue to support our community and elevate student voices, and even kicked the month off by ringing the NASDAQ closing bell with teens from our different programs. We supported missed milestone celebrations for schools across the country and our Councils hosted an open and honest conversation about mass incarceration and racism.

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In Solidarity and Kindness

Today, and every day, we stand against racism. We stand with our Black students, teachers, and colleagues, and communities. And today, we know many in our community are hurting. We are paying attention and committing to do more. We are here for you and are working to create spaces to listen and support our students, faculty and larger community.

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We Called, They Answered!

On May 6th, we celebrated 22 new Call for Kindness winning projects and announced three continuation grants from the inaugural 2019 class. Last year’s class reached over 35,000 people around the world; we hope to have an even greater impact this year!

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Collective Kindness

As we enter the next weeks and months, we believe that Riley’s Way’s core value, a collective commitment to kindness, is more crucial than ever. Our approach: empathy, intentional kindness, and meaningful connection, shall not change; yet how we put it into practice can, and must, adapt to unforeseen circumstances in which we find ourselves.

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Sharing Student Voices: Stories that Inspire

If you have been following the Sincerely, Hueman podcast, you have heard the stories of some of the incredible and inspiring Riley's Way students, and the story of Riley from our founder, Ian Sandler. If you missed any of the episodes, we have complied them for you here.

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Telling Our Stories

We launched our 2nd annual Call for Kindness contest; were featured in Psychology Today, multiple news articles and a TV interview; launched a partnership with the Sincerely Hueman podcast to feature our student voices and more!

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Happy New Year from all of us at Riley’s Way!

Riley's Way saw some amazing firsts in 2019, and we are excited to dream even bigger in 2020.

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What a Year

“Riley always wore a smile on her face and rarely let anything get her down. She would be proud that we chose to focus on how she lived her life by approaching each encounter as a chance to make a new friend.” -Ian Sandler, Proud Father of Riley Hannah Sandler

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Support Riley’s Way on this Giving Tuesday

On this Giving Tuesday, a day on which millions of people give to favorite charities, please choose to support Riley’s Way and our mission to empower the next generation of kind leaders.

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With Gratitude

Tomorrow is about remembering things we are thankful for. At Riley’s Way, we are thankful for our community: all of you.

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Another Exciting Month at Riley’s Way!

The momentum continues from our first annual Youth Leadership Retreat on a beautiful September weekend.

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Exciting News from Riley’s Way

What an exciting start to the new school year at Riley’s Way! It has been filled with lots of firsts.

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What’s Happening at Riley’s Way | Spring 2019

It has been an exciting season for us at Riley's Way! Our Councils have been busy...

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Fall 2018 Newsletter

Fall is here, school has started, and our programs are up and running once again!...

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Summer 2018 Newsletter

As we jump into summer, we wanted to share with you the exciting end of our school year and our direction moving forward...

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Spring 2018 Newsletter

Over the past three years, Riley's Way Foundation has been providing SEL based curricula and professional development opportunities in public and private schools across NYC...

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Fall 2017 Newsletter

This year, we are working with over 580 third and fourth grade students and their 34 teachers at The Nightingale-Bamford School,...

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Spring + Summer 2017 Newsletter

We’ve been busy since our incredibly successful BBQ Blowout in March! Over 450 people attended the event and we raised over $245,000,...

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Summer 2016 Newsletter

Through the Foundation's first program, Riley’s Way Program, we provide a $60,000 grant over the period of three years...