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Ms. Lia Mandelbaum and a Compassionate Uprising

by JonRamer | Mar 18, 2016 | Compassion Reports, Education - Schools, Giving Games, Unity Games

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...

Love Remembers Day Coopetition – Compassion For Anaphylaxis

by Joey Crotty | Feb 18, 2016 | Coopetitions, Youth

Worldwide “Love Remembers Day” is hosting a Compassion Games Coopetition from March 19th – 27th to honor lives lost to Food Induced Anaphylaxis. Flowers for Anaphylaxis , a volunteer grassroots organization that offers condolences to families that have lost loved ones due to food-induced anaphylaxis, is organizing the third annual worldwide Love Remembers Day from March 19 – 27, 2016. Aleasa Word, CLC, CEC , founder of the program, and an advocate and educator in the food-allergy...

Acts of Intolerance Make Compassion Bench More Meaningful Than Ever

by Joey Crotty | Nov 19, 2015 | Compassion Reports, Unity Games

Back in 2012, Louisville, KY had both the guts and credentials to back themselves up when Mayor of Louisville Greg Fischer boldly stated: “We are the most compassionate city in the world, and will be so until proven otherwise.” This was of course a playful gesture in the spirit of “competitive altruism”, aimed to ignite engagement from other cities to make communities around the world more compassionate. And it worked, because this lead to the birth of the Compassion Games: Survival of the...

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

by JonRamer | Nov 19, 2015 | Compassion Reports, Unity Games

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...

The Giving Games Backstory

by JonRamer | Nov 11, 2015 | Coopetitions, Giving Games

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...

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

by JonRamer | Nov 2, 2015 | Compassion Reports, Ways to Play

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...

2015 Annual Games: Summary of Results and Highlights

by JonRamer | Oct 13, 2015 | Compassion Reports, Unity Games

Introduction We are proud and excited to share the results of the 2015 Annual Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest. This year’s Annual Games were a remarkable performance by thousands of people and hundreds of teams committed to bringing compassion to life! What we measure reflects what matters, and the Compassion Games are designed to measure a community’s (team’s) “compassion impact and strength” in planning, doing, reporting, reflecting on, and counting service in...

9/11 Day and Compassion Games: Catalyzing More Good Deeds Than Ever!

by JonRamer | Aug 25, 2015 | Partners, Unity Games, Ways to Play

For many people the tragic events of 9/11 changed their lives. Being a proud New Yorker, that was the day that everything changed for me as well. My life as a social entrepreneur – including the birth of the International Campaign for Compassionate Cities and the Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest – can be linked back to that fateful day. It is therefore a great honor to be partnering with 9/11 Day . It is deeply moving to see the Compassion Games woven into the vision that...

Secrets Revealed: Anonymous Agent Spills the Beans on the Secret Agents of Compassion

by JonRamer | Aug 14, 2015 | Unity Games, Ways to Play

Shhh! Want to know a secret? This story is about to reveal one of the best kept Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest mysteries. For the past four years, an elite, undercover team have taken on missions of life-altering proportions, changing the very fabric of our world. We think it’s time for the word to get out, for the world to appreciate what they’re doing, and for countless others to join in. You may not know it, but there is a global team of people who get up each day and are guided...

You Are Invited to the (Free, Online) Global Compassion Summit!

by Joey Crotty | Jun 12, 2015 | Coopetitions, Partners, Unity Games

Peaceful Summertime Greetings! The Compassion Games is excited to be partnering with the Shift Network in the first online Global Compassion Summit , and we warmly welcome you to join us! Do you sometimes wonder how you can deal with the suffering in your own life, let alone the suffering of the world? We know it’s easy to get overwhelmed and feel as though there’s nothing you can do to get relief. That’s why we’re looking forward to The Shift Network’s free online Global Compassion...

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