Please join us in congratulating the Winners of the Building Vibrant Communities challenge! After receiving more than 200 entries, 86 top entries were selected as Semi-Finalists and 23 Finalists were selected. Our winners are announced below. Read more…
Ashoka Changemakers and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation launched this challenge to discover and support innovative ideas that activate empathy to nourish stronger, more vibrant communities and future changemakers.
As of 2012, I have been working with Edwin Rutsch of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy to build a hands on, walking the talk, empathy practice. We designed the Empathy Circles as one way of practicing empathy.The circles are based …
Meet Robert Brooks, PhDEmpathy builds resilienceTeaching empathyThe importance of empathy in parentingThe power of unconditional loveSee it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet completed a Compassion Without Borders tour of University of California, San Diego, University of San Diego, and San Diego State University in the beautiful City of San Diego. He believes media professio…
Budgerigars, also known as parakeets, are susceptible to catching the urge to yawn from watching other budgies do it.[What yawning bonobos can teach us about empathy]’Some researchers, including Gallup, believe that contagious yawning behavior in diffe…
