Meet our Cape Kid of the Month – Chase Colman

April 11, 2017 twhimsLeave a comment

It is a privilege to present Chase Colman as our Cape Kid of the Month for the month of April. Chase is third grader at Central School in Warren, New Jersey. He is a great friend to his classmates and often can be found including others in school and at recess.

Chase has volunteered for Wear The Cape on several occasions. He was a Cape Kid greeter at our annual Holiday Fundraiser two years in a row. As well, he gave up one weekend of his Summer Vacation in August to help film one of our Hero Assembly videos, which features him saying a line he lives by in his everyday life: he sticks up for kids who can’t…

As an avid and talented baseball player, Chase cheers on his teammates and encourages them to Wear The Cape, as well. His favorite team is the Red Socks, which is a tribute to his Boston roots.

Upon watching Chase in the assembly videos, his teachers and friends at school stated that he is can often be found Wearing the Cape and being Better Than That™.

For further information on our Hero Assembly, and the chance to see this adorable Cape Kid being a Hero, please email leighann@wearthecapekids.com

Cape Kid of the Month – Mairead Studdiford

February 23, 2017February 23, 2017 twhimsLeave a comment

Originally from New Jersey, Mairead has been an integral part of helping founder Leigh Ann Errico establish and run the New Jersey based Junior Board, which is composed of fifteen young adult members, who help guide the ideals of kindness. Mairead’s tireless work in the crusade to teach children about kindness has resulted in very successful events over the past three years; such as helping to organize and develop a first of its kind 5K Race and family festival in 2014 – which resulted in over one hundred runners and raised over $10,000 to help support the foundation’s outreach of kindness. She has helped work on the annual Wear the Cape Holiday fundraiser that, in 2016, raised over $7,000 for the kidkind Foundation.

Through her own successful business, Bay Head Boutique she has raised thousands of dollars which she chose to donate to causes close to her heart, such as to help wildlife, children’s diseases, and to support those in need. Mairead has continually used skills and business acumen to donate her time and money to Wear the Cape and kidkind Foundation.

Filled with a tremendous gift of entrepreneurship, combined with the desire to help others, this fine young woman has worked with many charities to raise awareness about the power of kindness and giving back to the community. Her huge heart and passion was paramount in her desire to start a Southern Chapter of Wear the Cape. Through her hard work and dedication to this project, Mairead was able to bring our assembly to Out-of-Door Academy in Sarasota, Florida. The assembly, which Mairead will be a part of, will be performed in March 2017.

We are thrilled to have such an exceptional young woman as our Florida advocate. Being able to take her early learning and success from Wear the Cape in New Jersey to Florida is an incredible opportunity. Mairead looks forward to bringing her knowledge, leadership and the message of kindness to all Florida school children.

Crazy Heroes

September 20, 2013September 24, 2013 Leigh Ann Errico1 Comment

Last November, when I was just in the infancy stages of my idea for Wear the Cape for all kidkind, I saw the below commercial by Coca-Cola Latin America and production company Landia. Using security cameras to capture people performing random acts of kindness, the ad encourages us to look at the world a little differently.

As John Yong observed, writing for TAXI:

Security cameras may be used to deter the bad guys from committing crimes, but occasionally they do capture acts of kindness by everyday heroes.

Some of the people in this video risked their own lives to help others, pushing vehicles off light rail tracks with an oncoming train (“Crazy Heroes”), and others just did what’s right, not what’s easy – running to return a dropped pocketbook (“Honest Pickpocketing”).

As Yong goes on to say: