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Giving Games Champion Spotlight: Compassionate Louisville

Giving Games Champion Spotlight: Compassionate Louisville

For Day 8 of the Giving Games, we are so grateful to pass the Compassion Torch from the Earth Guardians to none other than Compassionate Louisville, a coalition of pioneers blazing the way as a model compassionate city. Compassionate Louisville is a coalition of over 100 bustling, active partners working to transform their city into a model compassionate city the rest of the world can emulate. Each organization of this coalition is a Champion of Compassion in their own right, but together?...

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Giving Games Champion Spotlight: Earth Guardians

Giving Games Champion Spotlight: Earth Guardians

For Day 7 of the Giving Games, we are so deeply grateful to pass the Compassion Torch from the United Religions Initiative (URI) to the Earth Guardians, a tribe of young activists, artists, and musicians from around the world stepping up as leaders, and offering a powerful voice that cannot be ignored. Few forces on planet Earth burn through the red tape of bureaucracy and the divisiveness of politics like the voice of our young people. Free from status, immune to the bias that can come from...

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Giving Games Champion Spotlight: United Religions Initiative

Giving Games Champion Spotlight: United Religions Initiative

For Day 6 of the Giving Games, we are excited to pass the Compassion Torch from the International Institute for Child Rights Development (IICRD) to the United Religion's Initiative (URI)! URI has taken up the Compassion Torch for the second Compassion Games coopetition in a row, and we are continuously inspired by their work to bring interfaith peace to reality. The United Religions Initiative (URI) is a global grassroots interfaith network that cultivates peace and justice by engaging people...

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Giving Games Champion Spotlight: Empty Hands Music

Giving Games Champion Spotlight: Empty Hands Music

For Day 4 of the Giving Games, we are humbled to pass the Compassion Torch from Play for Peace to Nimo Patel's Empty Hands Music. Empty Hands Music is not your everyday organization, and its founder, Nimo, is not your everyday founder. If you haven’t heard of Nimo Patel, lean in with us, because his story, like his spirit, is one of a kind. Nimo went from an Ivy League education to a career on Wall Street, to fame and fortunate as a Rap star on MTV. It’s a life that too many believe leads to...

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Giving Games Champion Spotlight: United Nations – Department of Public Information

Giving Games Champion Spotlight: United Nations – Department of Public Information

For Day 2 of the Giving Games, we are deeply thankful to pass the Compassion Torch from #GivingTuesday to Monica Willard, the United Religion's Initiative of the United Nations Department of Public Information. With the generous guidance of Monica Willard, the UN has provided continuous support for the Compassion Games from its inception. The Department of Public Information (DPI) was established in 1946 by a General Assembly resolution to promote global awareness and understanding of the work...

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Giving Games Champion Spotlight: International Institute for Child Rights Development

Giving Games Champion Spotlight: International Institute for Child Rights Development

For Day 5 of the Giving Games, we are excited to pass the Compassion Torch from Nimo Patel's Empty Hands Music to the International Institute for Child Rights Development (IICRD). Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr., Chairperson of Compassion Games International (CGI), and Jon Ramer, Founder of CGI, have had the blessed fortune to work with IICRD over the last 10 years. The Purpose of IICRD is to “build respect for children’s inherent human dignity, nurture their sense of belonging, and reinforce...

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Giving Games Champion Spotlight: Play for Peace

Giving Games Champion Spotlight: Play for Peace

For Day 3 of the Giving Games, we are thrilled to pass the Compassion Torch from the United Nations Department of Public Information to Play for Peace. Play for Peace, we are proud to say, is a hero of the Compassion Games Leadership Team. There is no other force on Earth that so embodies the spirit of compassionate play in such an on the ground, global expression. No matter where you might point on an atlas, you will find a unique expression of Play for Peace. From India to the Philippines,...

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Giving Games 2016 Launch with #GivingTuesday

Giving Games 2016 Launch with #GivingTuesday

#GivingTuesday is a globally recognized day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration. However, #GivingTuesday is much more than what it first appears to be on the surface. As a response to the consumerism of “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” which appears antithetical the winter holiday season, #GivingTuesday aims to take back the spirit of generosity that lies at the heart of our shared humanity. And as an international movement, it is doing it wonderfully....

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Global Champions of Compassion Kickoff a “Compassion Relay”

Global Champions of Compassion Kickoff a “Compassion Relay”

Honors Youth, Indigenous, Interfaith Leadership on Climate Action FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Opening Ceremony COP22 Climate Change Conference, Marrakesh, Morocco November 7, 2016 - A "Global Compassion Relay" with “Champions of Compassion” was lit and now a virtual “Compassion Torch” will be passed highlighting the many ways that unprecedented, unified compassionate action unites and gives life to our communities and planet. The Global Compassion Relay and the Global Compassion Torch will bring...

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Celebrate the Unbelievable Final Results of the 2016 Global Unity Games

Celebrate the Unbelievable Final Results of the 2016 Global Unity Games

Dear Agents of Compassion, It's easy to believe that we are living in a time of a "great divide". It is also true that we live in a time of “global connections”. There are over one billion people active on Facebook alone. Can we use this unprecedented connectivity to heal the divides between us and build bridges to Global Unity? We set out to play the Global Unity Compassion Games to explore and discover what's needed to create Global Unity and here's what we found out. The Global Unity Games...

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