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Champion Spotlight: United Earth – Global Solutions Day

Champion Spotlight: United Earth – Global Solutions Day

An unprecedented global unified action — and a supporting online open source platform — to publicly identify and showcase ALL life-affirming solutions for a Global Transition Global Solutions Day is an unprecedented global civic action to gather all solutions-oriented collectives to unveil and celebrate the countless inspiring and empowering solutions and alternative systemic models that we already have. We are inviting all organisations, projects, communities, tribes, networks and alliances...

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Champion Spotlight: Combatants for Peace

Champion Spotlight: Combatants for Peace

We are passing the torch today to Combatants for Peace, a group of Palestinians and Israelis who have taken an active part in the cycle of violence in our region in the past, and who today have decided to put down their arms and work on the basis of non-violent principles. The egalitarian, bi-national, grassroots organization was founded on the belief that the cycle of violence can only be broken when Israelis and Palestinians join forces. Committed to joint nonviolence since its foundation,...

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Champion Spotlight: Compassionate Gold Coast

Champion Spotlight: Compassionate Gold Coast

Australia Playing in the Global Compassion Games Dr Lynne Reeder, Lead Facilitator – Australia: A Continent for Compassion Terry Ayling, Lead Facilitator - Compassionate Gold Coast To walk in partnership with, and complement the work of global Charter for Compassion, developments are currently underway in Australia to facilitate a substantial and nationally resourced movement to advance the vision of Australia becoming a Continent for Compassion. Australia as a Continent of Compassion will act...

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Champion Spotlight: Network of Wellbeing

Champion Spotlight: Network of Wellbeing

A World Of Compassion and Wellbeing For All We recently had the good fortune to meet with Josh Malkin and Florence Scialom from the Network Of Wellbeing.  We asked them to share the history, vision, and mission of the Network Of Wellbeing (NOW).  What follows below is what they graciously sent. As you'll see their work is vital to building healthy networks of networks that connect personal well-being with societal health and sustainable approaches to caring for the planet. NOW’s Chair of...

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Champion Spotlight: ABC Charity

Champion Spotlight: ABC Charity

In Stockholm, Sweden we met with Filip Cederholm and Fia Carver Agoo the creative forces behind ABC Charity.  ABC Charity is a non-profit creating photo art to raise money for different children’s charities around the world.  They describe the charity as kids helping kids by imagining and creating “Letters of Compassion” that builds bridges. Here is an example of ABC Charity in Punta Cana with an amazing group of youth. This is a husband and wife team who are creating Global Unity by...

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Points of Light Kicks Off the Compassion Relay #CompassionUnites

Points of Light Kicks Off the Compassion Relay #CompassionUnites

The Compassion Relay begins with a brilliant point of light, an intentional spark that arises out of the darkness. Each of us is a point of light.  The Compassion Relay is a featured way to play in the Global Unity Games from 9/11 through 9/22. The Compassion Relay is made of a dream team of “Champions of Compassion” that are collaborating and celebrating the goodness and unity in the world. The theme of the Compassion Relay is #CompassionUnites The purpose of the Global Unity Games is to...

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Ms. Lia Mandelbaum and a Compassionate Uprising

Ms. Lia Mandelbaum and a Compassionate Uprising

One of the great joys of organizing the Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest is meeting remarkable people who take the Games and do truly amazing things. It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to Lia Mandelbaum, a writer for the Jewish Journal and a resounding Champion of Compassion. The following interview with Lia is organized into short segments highlighting some of the incredible things she was able to accomplish with the Games. (The complete interview is available at the bottom...

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From 20,000 to 250,000 to 1,252,160 Meals Feeding Children Everywhere!

From 20,000 to 250,000 to 1,252,160 Meals Feeding Children Everywhere!

One million, two hundred and fifty two thousand, one hundred and sixty. Need to see that in numerical form? 1,252,160. That’s how many meals were packaged for local food shelters. How did they reach such an astonishing number? Compassionate DFW is a project founded by Dr. Charles Barker.  In this year's Compassion Games Dr. Barker and his team organized over 200 volunteers from over 15 houses of worship and 15 nonprofit organizations to come together in a service project they called “Feeding...

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The Giving Games Backstory

The Giving Games Backstory

The Giving Games Backstory If you want the shortest possible, bottom-line summary of information about the November 29th through December 10th Giving Games, go here. What follows is the story behind The Giving Games: Youth and Schools Play it Forward. Table of Contents What Are the Giving Games? Giving Games Motivating Vision Why Play the Giving Games? Impact of Participating in the Giving Games Ways to Play the Giving Games Four Featured Global Projects The Compassion Report Map Resources for...

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Pass the Compassion Torch at the 2015 Parliament: Face to Face and Heart to Heart

Pass the Compassion Torch at the 2015 Parliament: Face to Face and Heart to Heart

The world’s religious and spiritual traditions, represented by nearly 10,000 people, came together under one roof during October 2015 in Salt Lake City for the Parliament of World’s Religions. Along with them came thousands of cultures, spiritual practices, and traditions, providing a tremendous opportunity for meeting each other, building relationships, and creating unity in diversity. And equally, presenting quite a challenge. As organizers of such an event, how do you create an environment...

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