Vancouver Ten Year Compassionate Cities Campaign
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This group is for those working on - or interested in - this campaign in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Website: http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/campaign-0-32
Location: Vancouver, BC
Members: 9
Latest Activity: Oct 5, 2011
Welcome!
PRESS RELEASE
February 1, 2010, Vancouver, BC. - We are delighted and thankful that you have signed up to indicate your support for the Vancouver Compassionate City Campaign!
The Campaign has generated interest from a number of local individuals and organizations, so we’ve decided to take stock, and – given the interest from various potential partners, and the timing of the Olympics and Paralympics – are currently determining how to strategically relaunch a broader, stronger local campaign that builds for the future.
So please be assured that we will follow up with you in March and let you know of the plans underway in Vancouver. In the meantime, we encourage you to continue to participate in the Compassionate Action Network. Thanks again for your participation and interest.
For more information contact:
Brenda Batke-Hirschmann
Director, Vancouver Compassionate City Campaign
compassionate-vancouver (at) batke (dot) ca
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Campaign Objectives A Compassionate City recognizes compassion as an ethical imperative in its policies affecting how its residents meet their basic human needs. A Compassionate City deepens the quality and the extent to which its residents embrace compassionate action in caring for its own residents. The long-term objective is to bring the worlds’ cities together over the next ten years to form a network of “Compassionate Cities.” The short-term objective is to complete this local campaign by March 15, 2010. Download and distribute this backgrounder: Vancouver Compassionate Cities Campaign 2010.pdf
Proposed Campaign Actions
We propose that the Mayor and City Council declare Vancouver a City of Compassion and complete the actions outlined below when we have 1,000 residents committed to the campaign (if we don’t reach 1,000 committed members the Mayor and City Council are not required to act).
We ask that Mayor Gregor Robertson and the City Council:
• Jointly affirm the Charter for Compassion and declare Vancouver a Compassionate City.
• Jointly proclaim April and October as two months each year for the next 10 years in which we deepen our commitment to compassionate action. This annual repeating cycle utilizes April for sowing seeds and October for harvesting outcomes keeping actions informed by our mounting experience.
Campaign Members Commit to:
• Affirm the Charter for Compassion.
• Join the Compassionate Action Network (this network) to share and find opportunities to volunteer, donate, lend, initiate, sign, attend, join and share the Campaign for Compassionate Cities with others.
• Prepare to pledge a few hours of community service and/or dollars to local organizations that help Vancouver residents meet their basic human needs (You will make the pledge once the campaign reaches 1,000 people. For now, join the campaign and we will keep you informed.)
Join the Vancouver Campaign Now!
The key to making this work is getting enough of us to share this with like-minded people; then they share, etc. This is how a few of us can combine our influence and make things happen that we can't achieve alone.
Here is a description that you might want to use:
Inspired by the April 2008 “Seeds of Compassion”, the Compassionate Action Network (CAN) was formed. CAN is a network of self-organizing groups who share a common vision for a compassionate world and are committed to supporting each other’s activities, events, and expressions in the world, be it public, nonprofit, for-profit, or social enterprises.
The Compassionate Action Network is launching the “Ten Year Campaign for Compassionate Cities” as a way to collectively act to multiply individual power and co-create positive change in our community. The campaign will strengthen our capacity to “do it ourselves” while building a social-organizing platform.
The Vancouver Compassionate City Campaign was inspired by Seattle's Compassionate City Campaign, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama's September 2009 Vancouver Peace Summit: Nobel Laureates in Dialogue and by Connecting for Change.
The hope is that Seattle's and Vancouver's example of community organizing will “go global.” To learn more about the Compassionate Action Network and find out how you can participate, visit this site: http://my.compassionateactionnetwork.com/page/cities-campaign
Post the Campaign to Social Networks or Email the Campaign to Contacts
You can share the campaign by posting it on Facebook, Twitter or other social networking services. You can also invite others to join by emailing your contacts. If you are a member of CAN you can do both by "sharing this page" through the "Quick Add" feature on the left.
Download and distribute this backgrounder:
Vancouver Compassionate Cities Campaign 2010.pdf
February 1, 2010, Vancouver, BC. - We are delighted and thankful that you have signed up to indicate your support for the Vancouver Compassionate City Campaign!
The Campaign has generated interest from a number of local individuals and organizations, so we’ve decided to take stock, and – given the interest from various potential partners, and the timing of the Olympics and Paralympics – are currently determining how to strategically relaunch a broader, stronger local campaign that builds for the future.
So please be assured that we will follow up with you in March and let you know of the plans underway in Vancouver. In the meantime, we encourage you to continue to participate in the Compassionate Action Network. Thanks again for your participation and interest.
For more information contact:
Brenda Batke-Hirschmann
Director, Vancouver Compassionate City Campaign
compassionate-vancouver (at) batke (dot) ca
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Proposed Campaign Actions
We propose that the Mayor and City Council declare Vancouver a City of Compassion and complete the actions outlined below when we have 1,000 residents committed to the campaign (if we don’t reach 1,000 committed members the Mayor and City Council are not required to act).
We ask that Mayor Gregor Robertson and the City Council:
• Jointly affirm the Charter for Compassion and declare Vancouver a Compassionate City.
• Jointly proclaim April and October as two months each year for the next 10 years in which we deepen our commitment to compassionate action. This annual repeating cycle utilizes April for sowing seeds and October for harvesting outcomes keeping actions informed by our mounting experience.
Campaign Members Commit to:
• Affirm the Charter for Compassion.
• Join the Compassionate Action Network (this network) to share and find opportunities to volunteer, donate, lend, initiate, sign, attend, join and share the Campaign for Compassionate Cities with others.
• Prepare to pledge a few hours of community service and/or dollars to local organizations that help Vancouver residents meet their basic human needs (You will make the pledge once the campaign reaches 1,000 people. For now, join the campaign and we will keep you informed.)
Join the Vancouver Campaign Now!
The key to making this work is getting enough of us to share this with like-minded people; then they share, etc. This is how a few of us can combine our influence and make things happen that we can't achieve alone.
Here is a description that you might want to use:
Inspired by the April 2008 “Seeds of Compassion”, the Compassionate Action Network (CAN) was formed. CAN is a network of self-organizing groups who share a common vision for a compassionate world and are committed to supporting each other’s activities, events, and expressions in the world, be it public, nonprofit, for-profit, or social enterprises.
The Compassionate Action Network is launching the “Ten Year Campaign for Compassionate Cities” as a way to collectively act to multiply individual power and co-create positive change in our community. The campaign will strengthen our capacity to “do it ourselves” while building a social-organizing platform.
The Vancouver Compassionate City Campaign was inspired by Seattle's Compassionate City Campaign, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama's September 2009 Vancouver Peace Summit: Nobel Laureates in Dialogue and by Connecting for Change.
The hope is that Seattle's and Vancouver's example of community organizing will “go global.” To learn more about the Compassionate Action Network and find out how you can participate, visit this site: http://my.compassionateactionnetwork.com/page/cities-campaign
Post the Campaign to Social Networks or Email the Campaign to Contacts
You can share the campaign by posting it on Facebook, Twitter or other social networking services. You can also invite others to join by emailing your contacts. If you are a member of CAN you can do both by "sharing this page" through the "Quick Add" feature on the left.
Download and distribute this backgrounder:
Vancouver Compassionate Cities Campaign 2010.pdf
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Comment by PamKM on January 12, 2010 at 4:56pm -
Hi Brenda, thanks for launching this campaign. A few suggestions:
1. You might invite CAN members Rennie Keates, Dan Haves, and Terry VanQuickenborne to join this group too. They are connected with the Dalai Lama Center in Vancouver.
2. You might do outreach in Vancouver and invite others to join.
3. You can turn off the discussion forum and RSS feeds on this page until you're ready to use them. Let me know if you need help.
I have a conference call scheduled with Charles Holmes this Thursday 1/14. He manages the DLC's Connecting for Change program in Vancouver. I'll tell him about your work, in case he doesn't already know about this campaign. There were several ideas that led to the idea of a 10 Year Campaign for Compassionate Action, one of which was Charles' idea to hold a dialogue in Vancouver's beautiful and historic Christ Church to discuss and perhaps define the term "Cities of Compassion." However, this idea emerged right after the Peace Summit and I think everyone needed a bit of rest first.
My role will be limited to staying informed on what each group is doing, but not necessarily participating in the actual campaign work.
Kind Regards,
PamKM
CAN Communications
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Comment by Lison Paquette, Smilee the Clown on January 8, 2010 at 12:13pm -
Dear Brenda
Bravo !!! for creating this Vancouver 10 years campaign
Blessings of Love, Light, Grace, Joy and the best of all Goods
Have a great journey of compassionate action
Lison Smilee
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