COMPASSION LIVES HERE

WE DID IT!

City Council passed the Compassionate City Resolution unanimously June 22, 2017!!!

City of San Antonio news release | Read the Resolution

COMPASSIONATE SAN ANTONIO . .

. . . is a grassroots movement to have San Antonio, Texas recognized as a world-class compassionate city: one where the civic government, the religious and volunteer organizations, the businesses, the community and its educational institutions come together to recognize the importance and value of compassion in the life of a city and by doing so create an ethos of compassion and a safety net for its most vulnerable citizens.

THE CHARTER FOR COMPASSION

. . is a cooperative effort to restore not only compassionate thinking but, more importantly, compassionate action to the center of religious, moral and political life. Compassion is the principled determination to put ourselves in the shoes of the other, and lies at the heart of all religious and ethical systems.

SIGN THE CHARTER

A CALL TO THE STEPS

On July 21, 2016 Compassionate San Antonio brought the Charter for Compassion to the City Hall Steps. Over the past three years thousands of San Antonians at hundreds of events, big and small, have signed our big vinyl charter for Compassion banners, which were presented to City Council at the end of the day.

ANSWER THE CALL

Compassionate cities are home to compassionate schools, businesses, compassionate health care providers, compassionate faith communities, compassionate neighborhoods and compassionate not-for-profits.

MEET THE NETWORK

You can now order your compassion beads online! Compassion, Dignity, Equanimity, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Humility, Integrity, Justice, Kindness and Love . . . and the Golden Rule.

ORDER BEADS

Charter Resolution Delivered to City Clerk

Jun 17, 2017

Earlier in the week City Councilman Ron Nirenberg (he gets sworn in as our new mayor on Wednesday) submitted this resolution affirming the Charter for Compassion to the San Antonio City Clerk. A RESOLUTION AFFIRMING THE CHARTER FOR COMPASSION, FACILITATED BY CITIZENS...

If you would like your organization to be listed as a partner, let us know and we will get back to you.

Contact Compassionate San Antonio

The community catalyst for Compassionate San Antonio is The peaceCENTER, 285 Oblate Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78216

The peaceCENTER is a 501(c)((3)) non-profit
You can donate to the peaceCENTER via PayPal!

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COMPASSION LIVES HERE

COMPASSION LIVES HERE

COMPASSION LIVES HERE

COMPASSION LIVES HERE

COMPASSION LIVES HERE

COMPASSION LIVES HERE

COMPASSION LIVES HERE

COMPASSION LIVES HERE

COMPASSION LIVES HERE

COMPASSION LIVES HERE

COMPASSION LIVES HERE

COMPASSION LIVES HERE

COMPASSION LIVES HERE

COMPASSION LIVES HERE

COMPASSION LIVES HERE

WE DID IT!

City Council passed the Compassionate City Resolution unanimously June 22, 2017!!!

COMPASSIONATE SAN ANTONIO . .

THE CHARTER FOR COMPASSION

A CALL TO THE STEPS

Charter Resolution Delivered to City Clerk

Contact Compassionate San Antonio

Inner Calm & the Vagus Nerve: Grace Under Pressure

Moral Dilemma: Right, Wrong, and Trolleyology

Poem: “A Plain Ordinary Steel Needle Can Float on Pure Water,” by Kay Ryan

The Mousetrap

The Ox Minister

The Teacher and the Taught

Survival of the Fittest? Define “fit” . . . .

Li-li and Her Mother-in-Law

Poem: “The Larger Circle,” by Wendell Berry

Compassion as Effective Public Policy

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