Desperate Times Call for Compassionate Action

Charter Partnership

By becoming a Partner of Charter for Compassion International (CCI), your group, organization or institution joins our “network of networks” to bring an awareness of compassion and compassionate action to everything we do as we interact with other people and with our environment. Many of you who are reading this newsletter belong to organizations that should belong to the Charter for Compassion. Please consider it and register. Why is this important?

As a Partner of CCI, your group, business, organization, school, or institution will:

• Help create, build, and sustain the network of Compassionate Communities in your own community and in the worldwide network of communities.
• Connect the compassion and compassionate action that you are already bringing to the work you do with the work and hopes of others who have the same vision of a more compassionate and peaceful world.
• Have the opportunity to communicate and connect with others—within your sector and across sectors—to share your experiences and learn from others about what they are doing to ignite and grow compassionate action.

Learn more about being a partner and take a look at our partners in ten different sectors.

         

Environment Sector: Green World Charter: ReGreen the World in One Generation. The Green is a nonprofit charity that since 2006 has worked on 3 continents to restore degraded landscapes and renew struggling communities through treeplanting and eco-agriculture. It was founded by Marc Ian Barasch, author of The Compassionate Life, in a spirit of “green compassion.” Learn more: http://greenworldcharter.org

Peace Sector: Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation: Glencree’s mission is to help deepen reconciliation within and between communities on the island of Ireland and in selected contexts internationally. Glencree focuses on dealing with the legacies of violence, building peaceful and shared futures and transforming violent conflict. Learn more about Glencree’s place in history and its current work: http://www.charterforcompassion.org/index.php/glencree-centre-for-peace-and-reconciliation

Religion/Interfaith/Spirituality Sector: The Interfaith Observer (TIO): is a free monthly electronic journal created to explore interreligious relations and the interfaith movement as a whole. It provides historical perspectives, surveys current interfaith news, profiles major stakeholders, and otherwise provides maps and sign-posts for the different sectors of an emerging interfaith culture. It offers a context to explore and respond to the new religious world around us. Learn more and sign up for TIO at: http://theinterfaithobserver.org/

Social Service Sector: Salaam Cultural Museum and Humanitarian and Medical Missions: gather and publish information on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and to promote understanding of the people, cultures, languages, religions, and lands of this region. Salaam Cultural Museum (SCM) is engaged in humanitarian and educational activities. Our mission is to provide humanitarian aid to people affected by conflict and natural disaster within the MENA region, and to bring cultures and people together to build bridges of understanding. Learn more about SCMs Humanitarian and Medical missions to Lesbos, Greece: https://salaamculturalmuseum.wordpress.com/

Charter’s 2016 Winter Speakers Series

January 25, Monday, 2:30 pm PT; Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart. Dr. James Doty will be interviewed by Jon Ramer of the Compassion Games and Reed Price of the Charter for Compassion International. Dr. Doty will be talking about his new book, Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart. Register.

Special World Interfaith Harmony Week Conversations

Please join the Charter for a special weeklong series of presentations during World Interfaith Harmony Week, inspired with the work of Muslim-Christian dialog. We are exploring the need for developing compassion to understand and benefit from a world that is marked by diversity and pluralism—in life forms, in cultural patterns, in faith pathways, in physical characteristics like skin color and body shapes. Register for each individual call. Learn more about the background for the calls.

Monday, Feb 1, 7 am PT; Karin Miller. Karin founded Our New Evolution (ONE) to connect and empower people and projects that are aligned with Global Values—the heart of Karin’s new book, Global Values: A New Paradigm for a New World. Read the introduction to Karen's book. Register.

Tuesday, Feb 2, 9 am PT; The Three Interfaith Amigos: Imam Jamal Rahman, Rev. Don Mackenzie and Rabbi Ted Falcon. The Interfaith Amigos started working together after 9/11. Since then, they have brought their unique blend of spiritual wisdom and humor to audiences in the US, Canada, Israel-Palestine and Japan. Their first book, Getting to the Heart of Interfaith (Skylight Paths, 2009), brought the Interfaith Amigos international attention with coverage from the New York Times, CBS News, the BBC and various NPR programs. Register.

Wednesday, Feb 3, 9 am PT; A Call to Action: Marie Roker-Jones, Louisa Hext, Aleasa Word. Marie Roker-Jones and Louisa Hext are cofounders of #CompassionConvos: a compassion movement challenging our own bias. It's a call to action bringing people together to create individual and systemic change. Roker-Jones is also the founder of Raising Great Men, an effort to raise boys to be men of character. Hext is the North American representative of The Forgiveness Project and Aleasa Word is an internationally certified professional life coach, editor at the Good Men Project, small business consultant and author specializing in helping people develop the second chapter of their lives professionally and personally. Register

Thursday, Feb 4, 9 am PT; Conversation with John Esposito. John Esposito is American professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Esposito is Founding Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the Walsh School of Foreign Service.Previously, he was Loyola Professor of Middle East Studies, College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of over 45 books. Esposito's interviews and articles with newspapers, magazines, and the media in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and the Middle East: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Guardian, The Times of London, CNN, ABC Nightline, CBS, NBC, and the BBC. John is a major contributor to the Charter's Islamophobia Guide Book. Register.

Friday, Feb 5, 7 am PT; Desperate Times Call for Compassionate Action. Join Reham Hamoui and others who are working with refugees arriving in Europe and America. Rehab is Syrian-born American currently residing in Seattle, WA. She has worked on humanitarian issues for 5 years in several capacities including the coordination of medical missions, political advocacy, and community outreach. She is now the Director of Communications for Salaam Cultural Museum, a NGO focused on providing humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees within the MENA region and Greece. Register.

Report and Growth of the Charter

Please read the Charter’s Annual Report. We are certain you will be surprised at all that happened last year. We have much to do in 2016 and we still need your help. Do you know of corporations that would be open to talking with the Charter in an effort to lend support to our work in their related sector (arts, business, education, environment, healthcare, peace, religion/interfaith/spirituality, restorative justice, science and research and social services. Please consider making an introduction. In addition, your monthly contribution to the Charter is extremely helpful. Please consider donating to the Charter. Read our Islamophobia GuideBook and help us produce a similar Guide on Gender Identity and Equality.

Here are two other ways to help:

Welzoo for the Charter. Welzoo is an online ‘start page’ which serves up different sites every time you visit it. Some of those sites pay Welzoo and, in exchange for you using Welzoo, they’ll donate money to your favorite charity, which we hope is the Charter for Compassion. In exchange for a little attention, you can painlessly donate to the Charter!

You need to (1) go to this link: http://www.welzoo.com/join/charter-for-compassion-interna/tPObQuE (2) sign up with Welzoo; (3) Allow Welzoo to change your start page or change it yourself; (4) If Welzoo doesn’t show up on a regular basis, ask Welzoo for help.

Smile for the Charter. To set up Amazon Smile use this link: http://smile.amazon.com/ref=smi_ge_rl_rd_gw?_encoding=UTF8&ein=46-3554077&ref_=smi_ext_ch_46-3554077_cl. Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to Charter for Compassion International whenever you shop on AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com).

There are links for Welzoo and Amazon Smile at the bottom of our home page if you ever need them.

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