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When a Forest Comes Home, a Collective Win for Minnesota and the Future

by JonRamer | Jul 22, 2026 | Being Minneapolis, People, Place, Shared Impact, Stories

While much of the world's attention has focused on Minneapolis as a city seeking healing from deep division, another story has been quietly unfolding just a few hours north. This spring, Minnesota approved the return of 3,400 acres of forest. But this is not simply a land transfer. It is a commitment to work together. The Fond du Lac Band regains stewardship of ancestral forest, while the University of Minnesota continues in partnership,...

Being Minneapolis: When a City Becomes a System of Care

by JonRamer | Jul 22, 2026 | Being Minneapolis, Featured Story, People, Shared Impact, Stories, Together

How neighbors are transforming grief, fear, and injustice into courage, connection, and compassionate action—and inviting the world to learn alongside them. “We’ve been waiting for you for a long time.” That is how Matthew Cobb describes the welcome awaiting those who come to Minneapolis this August. It is not an invitation to visit the city as a spectator. It is an invitation to arrive with humility—to walk through places marked by grief, witness the work of healing, listen to those who have...

“Thank You for Saving My Life”: A Community’s Compassion and One Chaplain’s Choice to Keep Believing

by JonRamer | Jul 21, 2026 | People, Shared Impact, Stories, Together

When Ayman Soliman was taken into immigration detention, the people of Cincinnati refused to let him disappear. Their response shows how a community can become a system of care—and how compassion becomes visible, connected and consequential. On July 9, 2025, Ayman Soliman arrived at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Blue Ash, Ohio, for what he expected to be a routine appointment. Instead, he was taken into custody. Soliman, an Egyptian-born asylum seeker who...

Peace in Ukraine Project

by JonRamer | Mar 4, 2022 | Uncategorized

We are at another turning point as the war in Ukraine is uniting the world in unprecedented ways. The high-level of social media use in Ukraine has led to a battle for online likes and shares that is shaping the views of people all around the world —and their governments. Many dramatic moments, nearly all recorded by citizens with phones, are influencing outcomes. Public outcry has translated into policy change. Western countries have unified like never before. Companies are also paying...

It’s Time to Connect!

by JonRamer | Jun 8, 2020 | Ways to Play

Now is the Time to Engage! These are the defining days that we’ll never forget and the next generation will ask us about it. The voice of “We the Peoples” is now being heard all over the world. Change, the likes of which we’ve never seen before, has arrived on a global scale. Here’s our moment to “power-up” the oneness of our human family and to have all of us and the earth come back better! We write to invite you to participate in World Unity Week as a way for all...

The Synergy in Our Unity

by JonRamer | May 30, 2020 | Champions of Compassion, Compassion Relay, Coopetitions, For Teams

At the heart of Unity is Synergy waiting to arise. Unity occurs when separate things or people are combined into one cohesive element with a single purpose. Synergy occurs when the working together of two or more things produces an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects. To add synergy to unity ignites, unleashes, and amplifies the interests and resources of all the participants, oftentimes in amazing ways. Although it sounds like unity and synergy are something we do,...

2019 World Interfaith Harmony Week is Reaching New Heights!

by JonRamer | Dec 27, 2018 | Coopetitions, Harmony Week

2018 was a remarkable year! Thank you for your continued support and participation. Here’s a glimpse at what’s next: In November we visited Toronto and attended the Parliament of World Religions where Unity Earth hosted the Toronto Convergence. Here’s a Kumu map we made of the Convergence participants: During the Parliament, representatives of Unity Earth, UNIFY, Four Worlds International Institute, Compassion Games, and SINE agreed to co-create a “Synergized Impact” for the...

SINE Study: Global Oneness Day and Global Oneness Waves

by JonRamer | Oct 17, 2018 | Teams

The Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest is a co-founder of SINE. SINE stands for the Synergized Impact Network Exchange. SINE is a learning community and alliance of members that exists to create unprecedented, unified action. SINE Members commit to empowering each other through cooperative, collaborative, and co-creative activities, events, and inspired play. Members cooperate with each other and support each other in their own work. Members collaborate by discovering how their work...

The World Could Sure Use a Good Laugh!

by JonRamer | Sep 26, 2018 | Unity Games

How Much Fun Can We Have? Imagine a self-replicating campaign that sparks laughter, lifts up the world and moves people to donate to a network of nonprofits doing amazing work all over the world. Can a good laugh lead to supporting groups working to heal the world? Donate at www.roflchallenge.org or Text to 50155 ROFL Marilyn Levin of the We Go High Project had this brilliant idea…. Let’s Spark Laughter to Uplift the World! We Invited Marilyn to share her idea on the Peace Wave...

Peace, Love, and Music in a World Online

by JonRamer | Sep 26, 2018 | Unity Games

Global digital citizens of all ages are going online to send love and support to a team of players of the social change game Peace on Earth by 2030. The game includes harnessing the power of music to uplift our spirits, bridge cultures, and lead social change by gathering in public, in song, and with signs, in our local communities, including one of the most challenging places on Earth. A team in the 2018 September Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest is from the Marefat High School in...

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