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A lost wallet. A sister’s memory. And a simple question: what do you do with love after loss?

After Kristina Ulmer lost her younger sister Katie in a sudden car accident, she found herself holding onto something small but heavy—Katie’s wallet, still filled with the tips she earned that morning. For years, it sat untouched. Not spent. Not given away. Just… held.

Until one day, she decided to do something with it.

As a high school English teacher, Kristina exchanged the money for $20 bills and handed them to her students with a simple challenge:
use this to do something kind for someone else.

What began as a quiet classroom moment turned into something far more meaningful—the $20 Kindness Challenge. But this story wasn’t really about how big it got. It was about what happened in the small, human moments along the way.

Inside a lesson on Fahrenheit 451—a story that warned about disconnection and emotional numbness—students were asked a different kind of question: how do we stay human in a world that moves too fast?

The answers didn’t come from discussion.
They came from action.

Students created acts of kindness that reached far beyond what anyone expected—paying off library fines so senior students could graduate, sewing walker caddies for nursing home residents and spending time with people who rarely had visitors, learning what was actually needed at a women’s shelter, and giving back to food pantries they once depended on.

And something shifted.

Not just for the people receiving the kindness… but for the ones giving it.

What followed reached far beyond one classroom—into communities across the country and beyond.

$20 Kindness Challenge

Interview with Kristina Ulmer, President and Founder of the $20 Kindness Challenge

Things that make you say "Wow"!
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