12/30/2025
As we close out the year, we invite you to join the B. F. Skinner Foundation in Shaping a Kinder World.
In Notebooks, B. F. Skinner reflected on love, kindness, and action:
Love is not simply positive reinforcement.
It is an act - a disposition to act toward others in ways that are reinforcing, humane, and thoughtful, without keeping score or negotiating contingencies.
In love, we act to please and not to hurt, to be kind and not cruel - even when kindness must be guided by care, foresight, and responsibility.
Skinner reminds us that shaping a kinder world is not about sentiment alone. It is about deliberate action - creating environments where compassion, evidence, and thoughtful reinforcement coexist. In education, therapy, and society, kindness must be paired with wisdom to truly do good.
Your end-of-year gift supports the Foundation’s work to preserve Skinner’s legacy, advance behavioral science, and promote humane, evidence-based practices that help people flourish, individually and collectively.
This season, give with intention.
Help us shape the conditions for kindness to grow.
Donate today and help us continue Shaping a Kinder World. https://donorbox.org/support-the-b-f-skinner-foundation
Remember: now until December 31, 2025, your donation will be matched up to $15K by a very generous benefactor!