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Compassionate Action Network International
by The Charter
3 days ago

Join the rapidly growing global compassion movement! CAN International currently focuses...

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The Courage to Vote in Pakistan
by CfC Pakistan
10 hours ago

To vote or not to vote? That used to be the question. Last week, people across Pakistan ...

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3 weeks ago

With Over 107,000 Volunteers, Acts of Compassion Annual volunteering event will return...

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Host Compassion Games in Your City
by The Charter
3 weeks ago

  The Compassion Games are designed to make communities safer, kinder, ...

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The Best Kept Secret to Longevity
by Dr. Emma Seppala
2 weeks ago

Look younger! Feel more vibrant! Boost your stamina! Live longer! Those are the promises...

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by The Charter
1 month ago

Sharmeen Obaid co-founded the Charter for Compassion office in Pakistan and won a 2012 A...

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4 weeks ago

Feelings of fear and powerlessness are driving the cycle of violence that surrounds us. ...

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To Boston from Kabul with Love
by Charter Team
4 weeks ago

The Charter for Compassion team in Pakistan has been collecting photos that convey condo...

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Photograph by James Nachtwey
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4 months ago

by Heidi Grant Halvorson  Feeling stressed? Of course you are. You have too ...

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3 months ago

In addition to Emmanuel Jal, you might recognize the following names: Adrian Grenier, ...

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Create a Compassionate Workplace
by Louisville Society for Human Resource Management
1 month ago

  Many organizations embody compassion in their business and community practic...

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Western Connecticut State University
by Michael Jo Bosco
2 months ago

Western Connecticut State University recently became a Compassionate University. This ca...

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3 months ago

The Charter for Compassion reached Pope Benedict XVII in February 2013, just d...

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TEDxChange
by Charter Team
1 month ago

You can now watch the inspiring TEDxChange webcast on demand that was shown at events ar...

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3 months ago

Here’s my invitation to you: Let’s take a month and intentionally notice tho...

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by Danbury NewsTimes.com
6 months ago

What can a small university do to mark a momentous occassion like a visit from His Holin...

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by Karen Armstrong
7 months ago

Karen Armstrong has provided us with a way to address the conflict dominating the world ...

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by The Charter
11 months ago

This year's Dutch Compassion Award winner is Ambrose Ongwen. The award's ...

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by The Charter, CCARE
9 months ago

The good (and we do mean good) folks at Standford's Center for Compassion and Altrui...

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Compassion games card
by Duane Elgin, The Huffington Post
5 months ago

Duane Elgin's article on the origin and the outcome of The Seattle Compassion Games ...

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by Mind with Heart
6 months ago

"It takes dedication, hard disciplined work, and intensive training before a dancer...

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6 months ago

Recent events have put Pakistan in the spotlight. The shooting of schoolgirl activist&nb...

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6 months ago

Another group of determined compassion activists have taken the cause to the streets -- ...

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Compassion Games Seattle
by The Compassion Games
8 months ago

In Seattle, it's a countdown to the Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest. First...

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Ayn Rand Postage Stamp
by Kristin Miller
8 months ago

The U.S. news is brimming with discussions of compassion (or at least the terms often us...

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Islamic Society of North America
by The Charter, Compassionate Action Network
8 months ago

This just in: The Islamic Society of North America, the largest Muslim organization in N...

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8 months ago

Our thoughts are with our friends in Gaziantep, Turkey, where a bombing killed 10 people...

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by Rita Hibbard
9 months ago

Admit it. That voice inside your head is often your most scathing critic. Treating you...

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by The Charter, Compassionate Action Network
10 months ago

Just what IS a compassionate city?  The Charter for Compassion is moving into a n...

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Charles Darwin
by Rita Hibbard
9 months ago

If Charles Darwin and the Dalai Lama could chat, they would agree on why humans are comp...

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by Rita Hibbard
8 months ago

Bob Levine is research psychologist who studies cities worldwide, investigating just how...

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Compassion Skit, Khairo Dero, Pakistan
by Naween Mangi
1 year ago

Khairo Dero is very special. It is the world's first official Compassionate Village....

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by The Charter
11 months ago

For the first time since the Nuremberg Trials a former head of state has been convicted ...

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Girl Scouts Celebrating World Earth Day
by The Charter
11 months ago

It is the 40th celebration of World Envirornment Day! Did you forget to send a card? Tha...

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Lewis W. Hine picture of mill girl
by The Charter
11 months ago

It's 10 pm somewhere -- do you know where the children are?  According to the...

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Encyclopedia of Life
by The Charter
1 year ago

Today, May 22, is International Biological Diversity Day! And, when one thinks biologica...

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by The Charter
1 year ago

With Euro 2012 about to kick off the world is watching not only for grand displays of sk...

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Kentucky Derby
by The Charter
1 year ago

THIS JUST IN: I'll Have Another might have won the Kentucky Derby, but in inspi...

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Do One Thing for Cultural Diversity
by The Charter
11 months ago

It seems like only yesterday, but it has been ten years since the United Nations put for...

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by Fresh Air with Terry Gross, May 9, 2012
1 year ago

Moderate Imam Feisal Rauf  was turned into a radical ideologue in the eyes of those...

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by The Charter
11 months ago

Memorial Day is a good time to commemorate and to contemplate.  A good starting p...

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by Compassionate Schools
1 year ago

Earlier this month the Charter for Compassion Pakistan group launched an exciting new si...

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Scene from Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
by The Charter
1 year ago

Maurice Sendak often said he did not write books for children. He just happened to write...

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Student filmmaker, Jaffar Public School, Pakistan
by Charter for Compassion Pakistan
1 year ago

Students, teachers, and staff at Jaffar Public School do a one week compassionate action...

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Pete Seeger's guitar by Roger Ressmeyer: This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender
by The Charter
1 year ago

In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,  By the relief office I seen my peop...

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Village women, Khairo Dero, Pakistan, photo by Naween Mangi
by The Charter
1 year ago

A seven-hour drive from Karachi, in the Sindh province of Pakistan, there is a rural far...

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Brain image showing areas stimulated during compassion
by The Charter
1 year ago

What happens when you bring together a bunch of neuroscientists, psychologists, educator...

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Spalding University, compassion
by The Charter
1 year ago

Tori Murden McClure has never been one to shy away from a challenge. In fact, she’...

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Educational Tent, Jordanian desert
by The Charter
1 year ago

The Charter for Compassion-Jordan  has a significant list of accomplishments &mdash...

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(Images above: May Day Posters: Eric Drooker, 1968 poster, Dave Loewenstein
by The Charter
1 year ago

All around the globe, with the notable exception of the United States, May Day is a cele...

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Memorial wall with images of victims. Holocaust Museum, Washington DC
by The Charter
1 year ago

(Image below. Leaves from the Weeping Willow at the Central Synagogue in Budapest, each ...

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Graphic recording of Compassion seminar by Avril Orloff
by The Charter
1 year ago

It’s no secret that the notion of a world governed by a Charter for Compassion is ...

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Salmaan Sana at TEDx
by The Charter
1 year ago

Compassion as the ability to restore the balance between humanity and efficiency. At T...

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Mackenzie L Greisch, North High School, Grade 9, Appleton, Wisconsin
by The Charter
1 year ago

The children of one Wisconsin town illustrate the many facets of one simple word that ca...

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Postcard of Vancouver, BC
by The Charter/Simon Fraser University
1 year ago

There’s a common notion in the United States that Canadians are really nice, prete...

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Normal Rockwell's The Golden Rule
by The Charter
1 year ago

THE GOLDEN RULE The words may be different, but the sentiment is the same:   ...

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