Ingrid calls folks like Rachel Blais “Angels of Compassion.” She’s open-minded, responsible, and whole-hearted especially when it is inconvenient but most needed. She’s an underground mentor in the most unlikely places: mini-vans stocked with Girl Models being scuttled from one…

Here's a recent blog on being agents of change:

Excerpt: "We are all agents of change, even if we are currently not in a place of freedom to be able to do exactly what we want. As long as the intent is there and followed by action, we can progress toward our ideal sense of self and community, which impacts the world, little by little, and eventually changes our currently “reality”—that…

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~Melody Beattie~

Dear All,

Happy January, where ever you are! 

For those Poolers in the London area, I just wanted to send out a reminder that we are still accepting - for a few days more - applications if you are interested in either a freelance Account Executive Position (http://globaltolerance.com/#/story/globaltolerancenewsitem17/) OR, if full-time is what you fancy, to join us as an account manager (…

global tolerance’s presence in world communications continues to grow and so does our workforce. We are proud to announce that Daniel is our new Admin and Digital Media Assistant and global tolerance’s first ever apprentice.

Daniel has a background in IT and is a freelance videographer and graphics designer, who has worked with charities and drama production companies which have…

Well, for our eighth birthday, 16 November 2011, the UN International Day of Tolerance, we get a shiny new website.



The site is a series of mosaics, which you can change using the tags, according to your interests and passions. Inside the mosaics are a series of inter-connected stories, like the patchwork of life, rich in layer upon layer of experiences.



The tagging system is perhaps the most exciting. In line with…

An estate growing project in Dalston looks for funding, but will funders allow them to pay people or just more soil?

The leaves might be curling from the apple trees and the last of the raspberries have been snatched but a project on the estate where I live (a housing estate, not a 'stately' estate) to develop the skills in growing food is starting to blossom.

Accessing funds for wood and soil has proved relatively easy. We are an estate with in a high profile…

Dear all,

     Many of us, I suspect, wear many hats and do many things. I invite you to share your good work with us! Whether it's an article you write, an initiative you are involved in, a musing that you put forth into the world - if it is in the spirit of 'global tolerance in action,' please do let us know. Link it here; draw our attention to it. We'd love to support you, and we'd love to have our thoughts provoked.  

    What is global tolerance in action? It is work that…

This post originally appears on the Perspective Project and eventually at exploredance.com

A review of:

BOUND, by Yaa Samar! Dance Theater

Directer and Writer Samar Haddad King

Choreography created in collaboration with artists in the Middle East

Performed at the Laguardia Performing…

Egyptians march from Tahrir Square to support Occupy Oakland protestors – Boing Boing.

Some friends and I are marveling at an important shift taking place among protestors in Egypt and around the world. One friend, who was in Tahrir when the #Jan25 demonstrations erupted, noted that there weren’t nearly as many protest signs…

Pinch Me I Must Be Dreaming: Is This the Future of Philanthropy? | LinkedIn.

Check out…

By Kerry-Ann Francis - gt team's finance and business development manager



I’m an American living in London; black, female and of Jamaican heritage. I’ve recently decided to re-grow my “dreadlocks” or simply “locs” which I cut off in 2006 after having them for seven years, and have been searching for a natural black hair salon in London for the past couple of months. I was surprised by the lack of such salons in London; a major international city boasting an…

Do you love to travel virtually via Skype to connect with folks you would otherwise be unlikely to ever meet? Are you all about girl-power and the hilarity and sweetness that unfolds during a language exchange? YES?! Awesome!! Volunteer to teach two one-hour ESL classes per week via Skype. The Alliance of International Women's Rights (AIWR) will connect each (female) teacher with an Afghan girl who is working to improve her English language skills. Check it out and spread the word!!…

Two weekends ago, I attended a final journey and paid homage to one of the most celebrated African

women. I am saying she was celebrated NOT because she was the first woman in East and Central Africa to obtain a PhD; neither because she was the first woman to head a department at the University of Nairobi nor because she was the first African woman to win the most coveted Nobel Peace Prize that she was awarded in 2004. It is a fact that in her 71-year-old life, she won over…

While the Internet allows me to connect with you, it also limits what I get to see. 

How? By analyzing  what I am looking for, accumulating my preferences and measuring data that the system has decided I like?

Eli Pariser, author of "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You" explains the dangers of what we see quite well in his book. 

I've tested this theory thoroughly as I teach Internet research skills all over the country. I…

This Friday on 30 September 2011 the 1%Club is organising a global co-creation event in Amsterdam, Nairobi, Buea, Cape Town, Kampala, Ramallah, Cairo and London. The 1%EVENT is the Open Space event that connects people with smart ideas for projects; which stimulate the self reliance of individuals anywhere in the world, and improve their standard of living.

The 1%EVENT brings together innovators, young professionals, entrepreneurs and change-makers that invest one day of…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-cohen/the-war-on-error_b_956333.html

As the search for General Terror continues, Citizens begin to question the decision to wage war against him ten years ago.

Victory, like General Terror, is nowhere to be seen. According to …