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Na Lei Aloha Foundation
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Lantern Floating Hawaii
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Global Shinnyo-en Website
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Exhibition of the Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito web site
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The Univers Foundation
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September 29, 2010 by
“What’s your Path to Peace?” Courtney Alpeter, a senior at the Blake School asks an audience of first through fourth graders. “What act of peace did you do yesterday?” Many, many hands fly up into the air. “I helped my mommy do the dishes.” “I was nice to my little brother.” “I sang a song.” [...]
September 28, 2010 by
Despite an unusually hot day in East Oakland, high school students from Leadership Public Schools (LPS) College Park stayed after school late into the afternoon to complete weeding, watering, and painting projects in their quarter-acre community garden, just a few yards from the school building. On Monday, September 27, 2010 students took a break to [...]
September 25, 2010 by
For the past few years, Camino Seguro has been running a 5k race in the States every year. It is our big yearly fundraiser. This year, it became a global event, with races also held in Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Guatemala. In the U.S., 10 races took place in eight states. A large number [...]
September 24, 2010 by
“Can you help me fold this part?” “Wait, let me finish my crane first!” Hundreds of high school students scrambled to fold origami paper into paper cranes as a sign of peace for International Day of Peace at Gunn High School during their lunch period on September 21, 2010. Students folded paper cranes, received Six [...]
September 20, 2010 by
In conjunction with the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships embarked on the challenge of improving low-performing schools by convening over 80 key leaders and stakeholders on September 20, 2010. This large endeavor focused on community-based organizations (CBO)’s [...]
September 18, 2010 by
In celebration of International Day of Peace, this year the Shinnyo-en Foundation will collaborate with Casady School to spread world peace through the Pinwheels for Peace Project. We’ll keep you posted!
September 18, 2010 by
September 15 is Independence Day in Guatemala. The whole country is a buzz of light blue and white. The national flag can be seen flitting from windows, in the tops of buildings and flowing from cars. Men don blue and white striped shirts. Styrofoam models of the six national symbols even hung from the rafters [...]
September 13, 2010 by
Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action. -Thomas Merton How often do you think about your heart? Maybe you get your [...]
September 11, 2010 by
Yes I do! Once upon a time, I managed an AmeriCorps*VISTA program. It was my responsibility to recruit people to accept a stipend that was below the poverty line to work in tiny little towns in California that no one had ever heard of. Now I’m managing a volunteer teaching program, and recruiting English speakers [...]
September 8, 2010 by
Service and Peace Fellows of the Shinnyo-en Foundation’s Six Billion Paths to Peace Initiative participate in the week-long Summer Institute. To read Audrey Lin’s article on Six Billion Paths to Peace Initiative click on the link here. The article appeared in Tonic, a Web site dedicated to promoting the good that happens around the world [...]
Ms. Nan Peterson is the Director of Service Learning for The Blake School located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is also the first and only Senior Fellow of the Shinnyo-en Foundation. Read more...
