April Practice: Community as a Verb
This month, we look to Scherto Gill, a research fellow at the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace to help us reframe our cultural assumption of community, moving it from something outside ourselves to an active process we live into. Watch Scherto in the video below!
Join us as we experiment with the practice of “we-ness” that Scherto speaks of. How might you live as if community is an action, a verb? Share your observations and experiences below.
Provocative Encounters Increase Appreciation on College Campuses
Groundbreaking new research from our partner, Interfaith Youth Core (now Interfaith America), finds that a high level of trust and goodwill—despite deep differences—emerges when college students have positive and provocative encounters.
Grantmakers for Education Annual Conference
Supporting Students in Overcoming Adversity: Agency, Justice, Equity. Grantmakers for Education takes this inspiration from the students who lived through Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent overhaul of the education system. Local successes and challenges will stimulate national conversations about transforming education, from birth through post-secondary success. Drawing on brain science and the latest evidence, we will explore the social, emotional and academic dimensions of learning.
Social and Emotional Learning Exchange 2019
This national gathering is for all those seeking to understand, experience and apply the latest developments in social and emotional learning. The conference will help participants forge new alliances and gain new insights, empowering and inspiring their future efforts to ensure that education in America focuses on developing the whole child.
Fetzer is proud to celebrate this 25th anniversary of CASEL as a sponsor of the Founders Dinner.
Learn more about CASEL.
Courageous Pluralism on College Campuses
Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) has devoted his life to the promise of a pluralistic American society, a potluck of flavors to nourish us all and stimulate taste buds beyond a bland melting pot of assimilation. Community and collaboration are at the heart of this vision, Patel asserted at the close of a recent IFYC training for campus leaders. Their schools will be paired for an 18-month exploration of “courageous pluralism,” supported by the Fetzer Institute and the Charles Koch Foundation.
Beyond Boundaries and Borders: Ashoka U Exchange
A learning lab, testing ground, space for celebrating innovation, and spark for the collaboration of 700 of educators, students, and other higher education professionals from across the world.
Featuring Working Across Differences, a 4-session track co-hosted by Fetzer and Ashoka:
Teachers in Residence
Ten one-week residencies provide the opportunity for selected preschool through fifth-grade teachers to spend a quiet week of reflection, writing, reading, and planning for the following school year.
This teacher residency program is sponsored by the Nancy M. and Douglas M. Yeager Family Foundation in partnership with the GilChrist Retreat Center of the Fetzer Institute.
Rumi on helping others heal
It doesn’t have to be overwhelming to “be a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder.” Sometimes a smile and a kind word is enough to shift someone’s day or outlook. Sometimes we can do more, like serving our communities and overcoming cruelty with compassion.
Practicing Democracy with Children
Nine ways to help children engage democratic values. Children come naturally to some democratic values, like pursuit of happiness and love of freedom. Other ideals—like recognizing that we are all equal and seeking the common good—need practice. This guide encourages children's democratic engagement at home and in their communities.
Developed with Spirituality & Practice as part of the Practicing Democracy Project.
Our Work
Our work today is in collaboration with inspiring partners as we all work to reveal, inspire, and serve a more loving world. Learn more about our priority initiatives below and engage with the work through stories, events, resources, and other opportunities to add your voice.