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Culture of Empathy Builder: 
Ashoka
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What is the most effective way your program fosters
empathy?
In just a sentence or two, would you share what you see as the most
effective way your program is building, fostering or nurturing a culture
of empathy?
Also, I'd like to invite you and any other applicants to to join in a
recorded Skype based interview and panel discussion to talk about your
program and empathy. For more see.
http://bit.ly/y8WS7V
Warmly,
Edwin
Director, Center for Building a Culture of Empathy
http://cultureofempathy.com
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Finalists
Check out the 15 finalists and vote for your favorite entry by
using the competition
site (Or use our handy Facebook
app!).
sent
Red Nose Foundation: Transcending Boundaries through
Play Dan
Roberts
Invitation to do a Skype interview about empathy and your
program
Congratulations on being a finalist for Activating
Empathy. I'm Edwin Rutsch, director of the Center for Building a Culture
of Empathy, I'm a Expert Commentator on the competition. I've been
interviewing some of the participants and would like to interview you.
For other Interviews see:
http://j.mp/JNDbGl
To do an interview via Skype, see.
http://bit.ly/y8WS7V
If you would like to do an interview about your program
and empathy send me an email;
edwinrutsch@gmail.com
with a time that works for you.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Warmly
Edwin
Grants
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The
Einhorn Family Charitable Trust’s mission is to help people get
along better. the Trust seeks to inspire a movement of empathic
citizens who, with mutual respect and understanding, ultimately build
an increasingly civil society.
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1440 Foundation -
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1440 Foundation invests in projects and programs that bring the power
of self awareness and authentic relationship skills to education,
wellness and the workplace
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Michelle Gale
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Soren GORDHAMER
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Joan Halifax Roshi
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Scott Kriens
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Daniel J. Siegel
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Meng Tan
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Laura Zax
How to
Implement STEM Effectively
LAURA ZAX - A love of all things
innovation is what first drew Laura to Ashoka, where she works to
identify and connect leading social entrepreneurs--innovators
applying new solutions to some of the oldest and most entrenched
societal problems. She also serves as managing editor of Ashoka's
StartEmpathy, the forthcoming online home of a movement focusing
on educational innovation. Before coming to Ashoka, Laura worked
as Communications Director of a mobile health technology start up
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Danielle Goldstone
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Paula Recart |
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Piedad Rivadeneira
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Lennon
Flowers
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Ashoka Fellows US Leadership
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Molly Barker
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Eric Dawson
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Mary Gordon
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Jill
Vialet
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John Converse Townsend
http://www.changemakers.com/users/john-converse-townsend
http://www.changemakers.com/blog/107575
1440 Foundation
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-converse-townsend/22/726/821
http://www.facebook.com/JohnTownsend
Ashoka Changemakers | Media Mobilizer and
Community Content Producer | Washington, D.C. United States
John Townsend is a social change devotee, international traveler,
and sports fanatic. John moved to the Washington, DC area after
growing up in Mexico City and New Delhi.
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Adam Horowitz |
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Ashoka ChangeInSight |
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Expert Commentators |
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Carol Engler
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http://www.changemakers.com/users/edwin-rutsch |
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Stan Davis
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Joan Duffell
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Guillermina Lazzaro
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Noble Kelly
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Noble Kelly has been a Business and ICT educator at
the secondary level in British Columbia since 1991 and has a Post
Baccalaureate in Educational Technology.
Noble Kelly
President,
Education Beyond Borders
www.educationbeyondborders.org
Lauren Parnell Marino
lmarino@changemakers.com
Community Manager
Ashoka Changemakers
lmarino@ashoka.org
(703)600-8302
Evagelia Tavoulareas
Media Mobilizer | Ashoka Changemakers
703.946.3730 | @EmilyTav
etavoulareas@ashoka.org
Lauren, Eva and Edwin,
noble@educationbeyondborders.org
lmarino@changemakers.com
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Pankaj Dubey
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Pankaj took up the cause of ‘EMPATHY
BUILDING’ in
children irrespective of their social and economic background. He
has designed and actualised India’s
first travelling street film festival for children in slums and
villages by
the name of ‘Sadak
Chhap Film Fest’
to reach out to the children with limited means.”
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Dara Feldman
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Dara Feldman is Director of Education and a Master
Facilitator for The Virtues Project, offering keynotes, workshops
and retreats transforming school culture and empowering students,
educators and families to thrive. Dara is a National Board
Certified Teacher and was honored as Disney’s 2005 Outstanding
Elementary Teacher of the Year and Educator of the Year for the
National Association for
Self Esteem
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Zaki Hasan
Zaki Hasan is currently serving Room to Read as the
organization's Country Director for Bangladesh. He has worked in
various sub-sectors of education including Early Childhood
Development, |
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Richard Majors
Dr. Richard Majors is currently the Director of the Applied Centre
of Emotional Literacy Leadership and Research (ACELLR) and
Director of Innovation at Wolverhampton College. |
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Bukik Setiawan
Bukik is a unique, creative and strategic person. His passion is
to facilitate creative change process of organizations, companies,
and communities based on their strength. His mission is to create
the ideal Indonesia; Indonesia we imagine.
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Maria Fonseca
Maria Fonseca has been working for social change organizations for
the last 12 years. She started working as program officer for
Fundacion Leer, providing support and training for innovative
programs around education in Argentina.
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Alissa is the eldest daughter of the late Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus
Dur), 4th president of Indonesia who strongly advocates tolerance
on interfaith relation and cultural diversity. She currently
directs and manages GUSDURian, a vast network of independent local
communities all over Indonesia inspired and dedicated to cultivate
pluralism and humanity values. |
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DACHER KELTNER
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Founding Director,Greater
Good Science Center |
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KIRAN BIR SETHI
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Founder, Design
for Change
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LIZ DWYER
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Education Editor, GOOD
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TALIA LEMAN
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CEO and Co-Founder,RandomKid
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VICKY COLBERT
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Founder and Co-Author,Escuela
Nueva |
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