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“We left the week feeling refreshed, encouraged, and excited to continue working. Our experience reaffirmed the notion that every child has an opportunity to become musically literate. The OrchKids program aims to get participation from children as early as possible and has some extremely talented faculty in place to support this idea. [...]

Help share the Charter by embedding the Charter for Compassion widget. Our widget allows you to read and affirm the Charter directly in four different languages: Arabic, Hebrew, English and Spanish. Please consider adding it to your site or as part of a blog post to help spread the movement. You can find the embed [...]

The Charter for Compassion is the result of a global collaborative effort. The TED Prize is so grateful for everyone’s work, support and commitment. A huge thanks to the 1000s who made this wish possible, including… ABC Carpet and Home Amin Hashwani Andrew Nurnberg Associates Brandfog Captain and Fox Chautauqua institute Council of Conscience Dalai Lama Center Easy! Designs Erin Kissane Event Organizers Fetzer Institute [...]

Today, around the world, people are celebrating the unveiling of the Charter for Compassion. Affirm. Share. ACT.

From the TED Blog… In February 2008, Karen Armstrong won the TED Prize and made her wish – to create a Charter for Compassion, a document about the core shared value of every world religion and moral code, the Golden Rule. This document will be released to the world on November 12, the result of months of collaborative work by [...]

From our friends at the TED Blog… Ask her anything. Religious thinker Karen Armstrong has written more than 20 books on faith and the major religions, studying what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, and how our faiths shaped world history and drive current events. She argues that compassion is the core, fundamental idea behind the [...]

The TED Prize are honored to announce in partnership with the New England Conservatory (NEC), the launch of the Abreu Fellows Program. Today, 10 gifted, spirited and passionate individuals committed to bringing El Sistema to the rest of the world, descend upon the NEC to start their yearlong training. A huge thanks to the TED community [...]

Just 10 days ago, Sylvia Earle’s new book, The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One, was published. Much like her talk at TED, this book is an articulate and urgent call to the world to recognize that oceanic change threaten the very existence of life on Earth. More from her publisher: In [...]

Child prodigy Adora Svitak interviews Jill Tarter and other SETI astronomers “to investigate the reasons we haven’t made extra-terrestrial contact yet — and also to find out when and how this group of clever earthlings hopes to right this grave injustice.”

From the TED blog: Weeks from the Charter for Compassion launch, Karen Armstrong looks at religion’s role in the 21st century: Will its dogmas divide us? Or will it unite us for common good? She reviews the catalysts that can drive the world’s faiths to rediscover the Golden Rule. (Recorded at TEDGlobal, July 2009, Oxford, UK.Duration: 09:55) Twitter: http://on.ted.com/3W