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WELCOME TO EMPATHY EMPIRE
We are grateful you are here.
In 2015, what started as a humble social experiment snowballed into a social movement. Over the course of 365 days, artist and empathy activist Kim Smiley posted a story and photograph every day about someone transforming the world through empathy. The movement went viral on day 5 and now inspires over 275,000 followers in 75 countries.
Established as a national nonprofit organization in 2017 and a charitable foundation in 2020, our mission is to galvanize an empathy revolution, elevating empathy in private life and public discourse. Empathy Empire reminds us that although life can be unkind, each of us has the capacity to choose a world in which kindness rather than cruelty reigns.
The World IS Thirsty for Empathy
Online empathy is well and good, but we are interested in the real thing. Welcome to Empathy Empire. We educate teachers, students, professionals, nonprofits and public servants to augment their empathy IQ.
LIGHT A SPARK OF EMPATHY IN THE WORLD
EMPATHY is INFECTIOUS
The Empathy Effect is a national nonprofit organization. In 2020, we established Empathy Empire Foundation, under the auspices of The Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto. Your support and contributions will enable us to train one million people with empathy education in the next 13 months.
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