Francesca Donlan of Narragansett, Rhode Island, was recently named Secretary General of the World Kindness Movement (WKM). She is one of four new officers that were elected to WKM’s new leadership team—alongside colleagues from Utah, the UK and Italy—that will reflect the organization’s founding purpose: serving as the global representative, voice and amplifier for the world’s kindness community.

The WKM is a global nonprofit founded in 1997 that established World Kindness Day, celebrated every November 13th. The organization is a non-political, non-commercial, non-religious initiative working to make kindness a visible, everyday value across cultures and borders.

“The new leadership team believes that the future of kindness isn’t one organization, or an event celebrated one day a year,” says President Alan Williams. “It requires a global community to work together and make kindness the bedrock of everyday life.”

For more information, visit WorldKindness.org.