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Proclaiming Compassion Days
The County of Santa Clara and the cities of San Jose and Milpitas have added their support to the Compassion Games! Find out more about the Games at the Compassionate Silicon Valley page.
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It’s Time for the Compassion Games!
Join SiVIC and other community groups in a coopetition* to turn Silicon Valley into Compassionate Silicon Valley!
*cooperative competition
SiVIC is participating in our second annual “Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest Coopetition” from September 11th to September 21st, the Days of Global Unity. We invite you to help us challenge and inspire our neighbors to make our community a safer, kinder, more just, and better place to live!
The Compassion Games calls all people from all sectors and all parts of our world to share the vision of justice and equality, and collaborate to create a more connected, caring community. Together as engaged citizens, we can strengthen what’s already working in our communities, and produce a collective impact that is greater than the work each of us, or any one of our organizations, can produce individually.
This year, SiVIC and Compassionate Silicon Valley are embarking on a campaign to have Santa Clara County and all Cities in the County (Silicon Valley) affirm and sign the Charter For Compassion and thereby earn the status of “Compassionate Silicon Valley”, joining many areas of the world who have affirmed the Charter and adopted compassionate policies.
We urge you to personally sign the Charter and the petition to your city/county officials, urging them to affirm and sign the Charter. The Petition form provides the details about the Charter. Please click on this petition link and fill the form which will be your electronic signature.
Check our Compassionate Silicon Valley page for more information on how you and your community can take part, and see the listing of opportunities to participate.
Pramukh Swami Maharaj
The Silicon Valley Interreligious Council mourns the August 13th passing of His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj, one of the world’s most prominent and respected Hindu leaders and the spiritual head of the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS). Pramukh Swami Maharaj, who lived until 95 years of age, dedicated his life to humanitarian service and spiritual upliftment of millions around the world by carrying forward the teachings of Bhagwan Swaminarayan, an 18th century luminary figure who sought to rid society of vice and superstition. Globally, Pramukh Swami Maharaj inaugurated an astonishing 1100 temples, nearly 100 of which are in the United States including the BAPS Temples in Milpitas and San Francisco.