What We Do

Connecting those who care

We support the emerging global movement that brings compassion to life. We are a global network connecting people, cities, grassroots organizers and leaders to each other. We provide educational resources, organizing tools, and avenues for communication. With your help we can all make a difference.

Learn more and get involved.

News

Keep up with news from our compassionate communities, partners and the Charter for Compassion. Share your news.
Take a look.
Build

Work with others to build a compassionate community in your own “backyard.” Join and connect with hundreds of global communities around the world who are doing the same thing. Learn from and support one another.
Find out more.
Act

Make things happen. Become a volunteer. Start a program. Join one of the Charter’s twelve sectors. Move things forward.
Fill out the volunteer form.

Map of Co-Creators

Take advantage of becoming visible to other like-minded people. Share your passion for compassion.

Invite others to co-create with you.
Grassroots Wisdom Book

Contribute to a shared book. Help create a written record of successful projects that can be replicated by others. Work with others to create and sustain positive community ecosystems.
Kids + Youth

We’re making every child’s world better. Come and join a world of wonder, adventure and joy. Visit us at Kids + Company, powered by GoldenRuleism.

Learn

Join one of our courses that address how to make compassion a driving force as we work to alleviate the suffering of our fellow beings and help create a just economy and a peaceful global community. Check out our offerings.
Read

Join our Global Read each month. Interact with celebrated authors.
View our Global Read webinars for adults and kids.
Shop

Wear compassion. Talk compassion. Spread the message of compassion.
Visit our shop.

Why We Do This

Connecting those who care

We promote empathy, peace, social justice, environmental sustainability, and intercultural understanding in a world riddled in turmoil. By encouraging compassionate action the Charter for Compassion aims to create compassionate communities where individuals can connect, collaborate, and support each other in their efforts to create a more compassionate world. These communities foster a sense of belonging and provide platforms for sharing ideas, resources, and initiatives related to compassion.

How We Do This

Connecting people who care

This website is your compassion landing pad. Consider it to be a “wikipedia” of the compassion movement. It contains an encyclopedia of information about compassion, its history and how it relates to the fields in which we work. It offers tools for grassroots organizing of compassionate communities, approaches to how we connect our passions through storytelling and most importantly, how we find others of a similar mind so we might strengthen our resolve to build a more just and equitable world.

"We need to focus on saving lives and empowering communities. It’s about working together to make our world, a healthy world."

Deogratias Niyizonkiza
2022 Charter for Compassion Humanitarian Awardee
Founder and CEO of Village Health Works, which serves over 200,000 impoverished people in Burundi.

Our Impact This Year

We are busy building: continuing to support global compassionate communities, introducing the Map of Co-Creators that helps us all become visible to one another, launching a new KIDS program to our work, helping to support Compassionate USA, acting on a new strategic plan, promoting new avenues of communication and creating this new website.

Plus, we can't do all of this without the volunteers who give HOURS and hours to our work.

The figures below indicate our current efforts, beginning with January 31, 2024.
Thank you for supporting the Charter for Compassion.