Our story
Connecting people in need directly with donors — and removing the middle man.
From a public-health ethics paper to a global platform
kindMANkind was conceived in Boston in 2018 as a final term paper for a public-health ethics class on individual and social responsibility for health. It outlined a strategy for global humanitarian aid that didn’t require a middle man — connecting those most in need directly with donors through online profiles and a network of trackable, refillable, encrypted donation cards, leveraging ever-improving global internet access and cell-phone ownership.
It came to life in Atlanta in 2019. Working downtown, co-founder Dr. Hess saw patients unable to finish cancer treatment because of relatively inexpensive social barriers — transportation, medication costs, or homelessness — and saw the benefit of a platform for peer-to-peer, trackable aid. By making charity part of the shared digital economy, kindMANkind empowers charities and charitable individuals to aim their aid and follow the progress of those they help.
The people behind kindMANkind
Clay Hess
kindMANkind hopes to change humanitarian aid as we know it — bringing it into the shared economy, removing the middle man, and linking people in need directly to individuals who want to help and to know the impact of their charity.
Sarah Jung Hess
kindMANkind reminds us that through our collective humanity we can help anyone — near or far — and that our mutual stories connect us all.
Ed Park
kindMANkind uniquely addresses sustainability and scalability challenges in homelessness — giving anyone the opportunity to work toward a job, a meal, and a place to stay.
Ilbum Kwak
kindMANkind is a tool for anyone — or any non-profit, shelter, or church — to simply aid their at-risk populations and improve retention and involvement of the processes they already have in place.
Ryan Barrett
By innovating and leveraging technology, kindMANkind strengthens connections in the community to strategically drive action.
Originally AccessHUMANITY
kindMANkind offers peer-to-peer crowdfunding humanitarian aid services that raise, distribute, target, and track individual aid and impact. Originally AccessHUMANITY, a non-profit incorporated in Atlanta, the charity is now kindMANkind, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with 501(c)(3) IRS tax-exempt status filing in process.
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