About
Kids for Peace Programs include activities such as the Peace Pledge Program, The Great Kindness Challenge, the Global Friends Program, Kind Coins campaigns, and You Are Loved Backpacks. Participants take part in responses to humanitarian crises, Care For Our Earth projects like idle-free campaigns on school campuses, composting, and community cleanups, as well as Community Builders, The Grandfriends Kindness Project, the Kindness Unites Paperchain, Peace Pledge Tours, and Party for Peace. Kids for Peace Programs also include the bullying prevention program The Great Kindness Challenge, the Peace of My Heart project, book drives that install a library and share story time with underserved neighborhood friends, creating public service announcements to encourage others to protect and save the ocean, creating Peace Packs (knapsacks filled with school supplies, toiletries, toys, and a note of friendship), growing vegetables in a community garden and sharing the harvest with those in need, tending a school garden, traveling to other countries to learn about each other and make new friends, and using Peace Pledge Workbooks to learn how to put peace into action.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Price: Give $60 and send a Peace Friend to a school for the entire year. Your donation of $50 will provide a Kids for Peace School of Kenya student with a uniform, half their tuition and breakfast & lunch for one year. Your $25 sponsorship provides membership dues, training, and a t-shirt to one Kids for Peace youth for one year. Your support of $750 ($950 for an international chapter) will provide a “Chapter Toolbox Kit”. Kindness Certified Companies make a tax-deductible donation of $150-$200. For $575 you can provide an underserved school printed kindness checklists for all students and a toolkit for all teachers.
Kids for Peace Programs are part of Kids for Peace, a global nonprofit whose mission is “Empowering young people to create peace in their lives, communities and the world,” with a vision of “a safe and peaceful world where all people respect and care for each other and our planet.” Kids for Peace projects and programs involve socially conscious leadership, community service, arts, environmental stewardship, and global friendships, and include youth of all socioeconomic backgrounds.
Kids for Peace began in 2006 when Jill McManigal and Danielle Gram met and Kids for Peace was born, and it has launched over 300 interconnected chapters around the world. The organization reports over 19 million youth engaged in Kids for Peace programs, 2 schools, 3 playgrounds and 1 health clinic built, 121 countries involved, 67 chapters worldwide, over 20,000 Peaceful Pen Pals connected, and over 10,000 Peace Packs hand-delivered. Kids for Peace has established the Kids for Peace School and Peace Center in Pakistan, Kenya, and Liberia.
The Peace Pledge Program is implemented by chapters around the world, and The Great Kindness Challenge is implemented by schools and families worldwide. Through the Global Friends Program, Kids for Peace encourages youth to connect with children in countries outside of their own, and youth work together to address their region’s environmental issues through Care For Our Earth. Through the Community Builders program, Kids for Peace connects with the community to enrich the relationship between youth and the people around them, including projects such as a book drive and library installation in Bhubaneswar, India, a public service announcement about protecting the ocean in California, a community garden in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and tending a school garden at the Kids for Peace School of Kenya.
The leadership team includes Co-Founders Danielle Gram and Jill McManigal. The core team includes Executive Director Jill McManigal, Chief Operations Officer Asia Moore, Program Director & Volunteer Coordinator Meg Jansen, Kindness Certified Company Program Director Margaret Malek, Kids for Peace Spokeskid Shivanii Ray, and the Chief Executive Officers of the Kids for Peace Schools & Peace Centers in Pakistan (Atta ul Haq Khaderzai), Kenya (Edward Kabaka), and Liberia (Ambassador Robert K Gboluma Jr.), along with Bookkeeper Janelle Mentzel. The Board of Directors is led by Board President Erin Murphy Anderson, Board Vice President Tory See, Board Treasurer Carol Pankiw, and Board Secretary Margaret Malek, with additional board members Aimee Clark, Mary Do, Glenn Domingo, Alixe Fesler, Brandon Jarale Worthy, Sadhish Reddi, Naila Sfeir, Richard Tubbs, Audrey Van Alyea, and Karly Zrake. The Advisory Council includes professionals such as Dr. Rubina Feroze Bhatti, Jenna Dotson, Steve Hart, Kristen Kinney, Joy McManigal, Dr. Ben Churchill, Bill Southard, Chris Ryan, Edward Kabaka, Kathleen Rosenthal, Lena Evans, Mary Lee Brendsel, Carrie Farrell, June, Cynthia Gilliam, and Jenny Moller.
Founder and Executive Director Jill McManigal has a Masters in Education with an emphasis in Service Learning, a BA in Communications from the University of Southern California, a Nonprofit Management Certificate from Chapman University, and a Certificate of Leadership from the Fieldstone Foundation, and she is a former elementary school teacher who has written and directed numerous children’s musicals and inspirational rallies. She has received leadership awards including Bank of America’s Local Hero Award, Congresswoman Susan Davis’s Empowering Youth in Service Award, ABC Channel 10’s Leadership Award, the CISV Founders Award, Carlsbad Educational Foundation’s Award of Excellence, a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, President Obama’s Call to Service Award, and April 26th has been proclaimed “Jill McManigal Day” in San Diego.
Program participants have reported experiences such as helping set a Guinness World Record by uniting with 180,000 friends to create the world’s largest collage of kind-hearted handprints, helping to write the book “Wish Big: Children’s Wishes for the World,” being part of the volunteer team that built the Kids for Peace School of Kenya, helping raise money to build the Kids for Peace School and Peace Center in Pakistan, learning about Nepal and making a Peace Pack for new friends, presenting the Peace Pledge at the United Nations and on the House Floor of Congress during Peace Pledge Tours, selecting and honoring the annual Peace Hero, sponsoring a Rafiki Amani at the Kids for Peace School of Kenya, and living by the words of the Peace Pledge at the Kids for Peace School and Peace Center in Pakistan.
Last updated June 26, 2026.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Price: Give $60 and send a Peace Friend to a school for the entire year. Your donation of $50 will provide a Kids for Peace School of Kenya student with a uniform, half their tuition and breakfast & lunch for one year. Your $25 sponsorship provides membership dues, training, and a t-shirt to one Kids for Peace youth for one year. Your support of $750 ($950 for an international chapter) will provide a “Chapter Toolbox Kit”. Kindness Certified Companies make a tax-deductible donation of $150-$200. For $575 you can provide an underserved school printed kindness checklists for all students and a toolkit for all teachers.
Kids for Peace Programs are part of Kids for Peace, a global nonprofit whose mission is “Empowering young people to create peace in their lives, communities and the world,” with a vision of “a safe and peaceful world where all people respect and care for each other and our planet.” Kids for Peace projects and programs involve socially conscious leadership, community service, arts, environmental stewardship, and global friendships, and include youth of all socioeconomic backgrounds.
Kids for Peace began in 2006 when Jill McManigal and Danielle Gram met and Kids for Peace was born, and it has launched over 300 interconnected chapters around the world. The organization reports over 19 million youth engaged in Kids for Peace programs, 2 schools, 3 playgrounds and 1 health clinic built, 121 countries involved, 67 chapters worldwide, over 20,000 Peaceful Pen Pals connected, and over 10,000 Peace Packs hand-delivered. Kids for Peace has established the Kids for Peace School and Peace Center in Pakistan, Kenya, and Liberia.
The Peace Pledge Program is implemented by chapters around the world, and The Great Kindness Challenge is implemented by schools and families worldwide. Through the Global Friends Program, Kids for Peace encourages youth to connect with children in countries outside of their own, and youth work together to address their region’s environmental issues through Care For Our Earth. Through the Community Builders program, Kids for Peace connects with the community to enrich the relationship between youth and the people around them, including projects such as a book drive and library installation in Bhubaneswar, India, a public service announcement about protecting the ocean in California, a community garden in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and tending a school garden at the Kids for Peace School of Kenya.
The leadership team includes Co-Founders Danielle Gram and Jill McManigal. The core team includes Executive Director Jill McManigal, Chief Operations Officer Asia Moore, Program Director & Volunteer Coordinator Meg Jansen, Kindness Certified Company Program Director Margaret Malek, Kids for Peace Spokeskid Shivanii Ray, and the Chief Executive Officers of the Kids for Peace Schools & Peace Centers in Pakistan (Atta ul Haq Khaderzai), Kenya (Edward Kabaka), and Liberia (Ambassador Robert K Gboluma Jr.), along with Bookkeeper Janelle Mentzel. The Board of Directors is led by Board President Erin Murphy Anderson, Board Vice President Tory See, Board Treasurer Carol Pankiw, and Board Secretary Margaret Malek, with additional board members Aimee Clark, Mary Do, Glenn Domingo, Alixe Fesler, Brandon Jarale Worthy, Sadhish Reddi, Naila Sfeir, Richard Tubbs, Audrey Van Alyea, and Karly Zrake. The Advisory Council includes professionals such as Dr. Rubina Feroze Bhatti, Jenna Dotson, Steve Hart, Kristen Kinney, Joy McManigal, Dr. Ben Churchill, Bill Southard, Chris Ryan, Edward Kabaka, Kathleen Rosenthal, Lena Evans, Mary Lee Brendsel, Carrie Farrell, June, Cynthia Gilliam, and Jenny Moller.
Founder and Executive Director Jill McManigal has a Masters in Education with an emphasis in Service Learning, a BA in Communications from the University of Southern California, a Nonprofit Management Certificate from Chapman University, and a Certificate of Leadership from the Fieldstone Foundation, and she is a former elementary school teacher who has written and directed numerous children’s musicals and inspirational rallies. She has received leadership awards including Bank of America’s Local Hero Award, Congresswoman Susan Davis’s Empowering Youth in Service Award, ABC Channel 10’s Leadership Award, the CISV Founders Award, Carlsbad Educational Foundation’s Award of Excellence, a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, President Obama’s Call to Service Award, and April 26th has been proclaimed “Jill McManigal Day” in San Diego.
Program participants have reported experiences such as helping set a Guinness World Record by uniting with 180,000 friends to create the world’s largest collage of kind-hearted handprints, helping to write the book “Wish Big: Children’s Wishes for the World,” being part of the volunteer team that built the Kids for Peace School of Kenya, helping raise money to build the Kids for Peace School and Peace Center in Pakistan, learning about Nepal and making a Peace Pack for new friends, presenting the Peace Pledge at the United Nations and on the House Floor of Congress during Peace Pledge Tours, selecting and honoring the annual Peace Hero, sponsoring a Rafiki Amani at the Kids for Peace School of Kenya, and living by the words of the Peace Pledge at the Kids for Peace School and Peace Center in Pakistan.
Last updated June 26, 2026.
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