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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 “Feeding...

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 action. The theme for...

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 on 9/11, not...

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 Summit,...

Being Human Ain’t Easy: Unexpected Lessons from His Holiness the 17th Karmapa

by Joey Crotty | May 28, 2015 | Compassionate Seattle, Earth Week, Education - Schools, For Others, For Self, Youth

We surely can’t complain about the mystery and thrill of being alive. Yet, regardless of one’s walk of life, it just isn’t easy being human. Like the tilted spinning of the Earth traveling through the Milky Way, having balance in one moment does not necessarily mean we will have it in the next. Life is messy. We are each challenged by the struggles of maintaining harmony in our relationships, by the incessant demand of finances and making a living, and of nurturing the physical and mental...

Highlights for Earth Week from Around the World!

by Joey Crotty | May 6, 2015 | Compassion Reports, Earth Week, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play

Greetings Compassionistas of Planet Earth! We are proud to report that over 30 teams from 4 continents inspired thousands of people to come together, acting in ways that affirm our love and compassion for the Earth and all her inhabitants. This awakening biophilia, or “love of life”, is transforming the world! We are still in the process of gathering the reflection reports on the Compassion Mapand have set a “liveline” (deadline) on the Scoreboard for Friday, May 8th. If you participated in...

The Power of Love and Compassion to Stop the Violence and Start the Healing

by JonRamer | May 1, 2015 | Compassion Reports, Earth Week, Faith and Interfaith, For Others, Harmony Week, Teams

Baltimore’s riots this week have highlighted the growing unrest and injustices across America. Many are being forced to rethink assumptions we've made about race, power, civility, and compassion. We seem to have forgotten concepts like fairness and justice as a nation. Without this moral compass to guide us, what’s left? As video after video surfaces of young black males being brutally treated by police, it makes us wonder if racial discrimination and police brutality can now be tolerated in...

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