If It Bleeds, It Leads

“If it bleeds, it leads” has been the hallmark of “news” for almost 100 years. Violence and infotainment (information provided for entertainment) dominate, confusing readers and leading many of us to hide or simply tune out. This infotainment distracts us from real issues. The doom-and-gloom news narratives hold us back from collaborative action. The Charter for Compassion International is offering a different take on the caring aspect of the news--people working together to bring about change. Throughout the world tens of thousand of people are acting compassionately on behalf of their neighbors, their communities and people around the world. Join in this effort:

• Help make start a compassionate initiative in your city.
• Register your organization (business, school, interfaith group, etc.) to be a partner and by so doing help strengthen our global community’s work.
• Promote the Compassionate School Network.
• Volunteer with the Charter--join the Charter Team. We still need folks to help us with our website, launch of the Marketplace and keeping up with the volume of mail sent our way (we have received close to 20,000 messages since the beginning of the year).
• Introduce us to individuals, organizations and potential sponsors.
• Host a Charter Salon.
• Donate to the Charter.

Compassionate Cities News

Garden Grove, CA (USA) affirms the Charter.

Compassionate Indy (Indianapolis, IN, USA) has a new page on the website.

Compassionate Dallas-Fort Worth (USA) has committed to packaging 125,000 meals with Feeding Children Everywhere. On September 11 at the Dallas Civic Center, as part of the Compassion Games, the work will commence. Find out more. Think about this activity for your own community.

The Bainbridge Island, WA (USA) Compassionate Initiative launch on June with co-sponsoring with The Lift Every Voice Foundation, the Landfill Harmonic, student musicians from Paraguay who play incredible music on instruments made out of trash. Hear the Harmonic. Follow their events. They’ll be in USA and Mexico in the fall. If you are a compassionate city you might want to help promote them.

The Charter is beginning discussion with representatives from Sri Lanka in its hope of becoming a Compassionate Country.

Events

Join us Wednesday, June 8 for our Compassionate Cities conference call. Register.

Join us for our first Global Read with Marc Barasch on June 18.  Register.

The announcement of David Breaux’s Compassion Tour brought about some very good interest. If you are interested in David visiting your community learn more. You can contact him directly to make arrangements.