by Joey Crotty | Oct 26, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Uncategorized, Ways to Play, Youth | "City of Seattle", "Tell A Story", community project, compassion games, compassionate action, compassionate action projects, Stories of Compassion, Youth
By Jon Ramer The Rainier Vista Boys and Girls Club needs you. Dedicated school chef Patrice Freeman shops the sales to feed her hungry troupe, but she has a dream, to feed her boys and girls with fresh fruit and vegetables from a bountiful school garden. She...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 23, 2012 | Stories of Compassion | "Tell A Story", Companis, compassionate action, Compassionate Action Network International, Compassionate Seattle, Rosehedge/Multifaithworks, Stories of Compassion
By Alanna Gunne Lying in his bed, he listened to the sounds of life. He could smell the pot roast cooking in the kitchen and hear his housemates moving through the halls. A movie was playing on his VCR and he was comfortable. He had not envisioned his life this...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 22, 2012 | Education - Schools, Partners, Stories of Compassion, United Way, Ways to Play | "random acts of compassion", "Tell A Story", "Volunteer", community project, compassion games, compassionate action, Stories of Compassion
Submitted by Kizzie Funkhouser We are fellow volunteers that serve those in need, Farmers of hope, we’re planting the seeds – Weeding out obstacles when lives’ pathways are blocked. Standing together, our diverse strands, woven to stalks Of...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 21, 2012 | Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play | "Tell A Story", compassion games, compassionate action, family history, Stories of Compassion
By Lee Campbell There was a man named Joe Earl. He was born in 1911 in a small town near the Mississippi River. His father died of an unspecified illness when he was a toddler. His mother, Mollie Bodi, remarried and had two daughters, Ida Mae and Delores. Mollie’s...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 16, 2012 | Compassionate Seattle, Education - Schools, Leagues, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206, Youth | "Tell A Story", bullying, compassion games, compassionate action, Nikhil Goyal, school reform, schools, Stories of Compassion, Youth
Submitted by What’s Good 206 Build more compassionate schools by combining students of different ages in the classroom, and fully integrating schools, says a 17-year-old high school senior who has written a book advocating overhaul of the educational system. In...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 15, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206, Youth | "Tell A Story", Alyssa Piraino, Austin Willaims, compassion games, compassionate action, Kumar Nessenbaum, Stories of Compassion, What's Good 206, Youth
Submitted by What’s Good 206 It was a chance encounter with a homeless man that that led University of Washington student Daniel Nguyen to start Operation Compassion last year. It began when an apparently homeless man, a regular Daniel had seen for weeks,...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 15, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play, Wisdom at Work | compassion games, compassionate action, Joel and Michelle Levey, Stories of Compassion
By Joel and Michelle Levey Some years ago, we were invited to offer a workshop on meditation and medicine for the faculty of University of Washington Medical School. Nearly 70 physicians attended and stayed for the whole five-hour workshop. We were so touched by...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 12, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play | compassionate action, drug addiction, homeless, Stories of Compassion
By Amber Joy Terry was not a complainer. He slept outside, did odd jobs for several Fremont businesses and was always willing to help with anything. He came into ROAR, a day center for homeless men, almost daily, for a sack lunch. He would ask if he could do anything...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 9, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, United Way, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206 | "Do Good", "Tell A Story", "Volunteer", community project, compassion games, compassionate action, compassionate action projects, solutions, Stories of Compassion, United Way Day of Caring, Youth
Submitted by What’s Good ‘206’? Some painted walls, others cleaned a preschool inside and out. Others pulled yard cleanup duty. All told, there were more than 12,000 of them — people who came out on Sept. 21, United Way of King County’s...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 7, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play | compassion, compassionate action, Stories of Compassion
Once upon a time there was a dog named Raider… This is the story of how Raider’s needs were met by the actions of Circle Drive, a compassionate neighborhood in Lake Forest Park, as told in the emails that circulated via our Resource Line: Please help find this...
