Stories
Past grantees
Mirjam Luthe & Dr. Susan Gitau
2024Location: Rwanda & Kenya
Community Served: Kenyan and Rwandan mental health participants and social workers working with vulnerable individuals and communities, and in addition a sensitizing approach to teen mothers. two teachers
Chanda Dharap & Christine Ferry
2024Location: Santa Clara, California, USA
Community Served: Women inmates at Elmwood Facility, Santa Clara County Jail
Neha Bhatia
2024Location: New Delhi, India
Community Served: Government school educators in rural and tribal India and low-income youth across the country.
Pooja Singh
2024Location: Patna, India
Community Served: Educators and the trainers who develop them in India’s school system.
Rodrigo Ruschel, Eduardo dos Santos, Valentin Conde
2024Location: Campinas, Brazil
Alexandre Octaviano Souza
2024Location: Teresópolis, Brazil
Community Served: Vulnerable urban communities in Rio
Natalia Sarro
2024Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Community Served: Women in healthcare suffering from stress and Burnout.
Barbara Davis
2024Location: Decatur Ga
Community Served: Local government employees experiencing frustration
Timothy Pedigo
2024Location: Matteson, Illinois (near chicago)
Community Served: Low income black and brown. Low income Black and LatinaX (attend university). Over 12 years teaching. I have been teaching this population as an associate professor in psychology for over 12 years
Matias Rodriguez
2022Location: Argentina
Community Served: Adults with autism
Patricia Kalfaian
2022Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Community Served: Staff at Hospice San Camilo
Yamel Athie Guerra
2022Location: Tapachula, Chiapas
Community Served: Refugees at the Mexican Border, Mexico
Belen Gonzalez
2022Location: Palma de Mallorca
Cristiano Ramalho
2022Location: Para, Brazil
Community Served: Front line health workers in remote village in Brazil
Sara Schairer
2022Location: San Diego, California, USA
Community Served: Sara led the eight-week course Compassion Cultivation Training® for the inmates at San Diego County’s women’s jail.
Nitesh Batra
2022Location: Bengaluru, India
Community Served: Dream a Dream Foundation providing CCT for staff who serve the needy and alt-risk youth in India.
Miguel Riutort
2022Location: Palma de Mallorca
Community Served: Homeless men and women living temporarily in residential centers of this Association.
Flávia C Kolchraiber
2022Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Community Served: Families dealing with extreme poverty in Parelheiros, on the outskirts of São Paulo.
Dent Gitchel
2022Location: Little Rock, Arizona, USA
Carlos Herradon Virseda
2022Location: Madrid, Spain
Community Served: Prison communities benefiting from meditation and compassion programs
Claudia Bernales
2022Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
Adam Burn
2022Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
Community Served: Offering compassion training to staff and family members serving the mentally ill at NAMI (National Association of Mental Illness)
Silvia Fernandez Campos
2021Location: Spain
Community Served: Staff at Proyecto Esperanzo, working with women who are victims of human trafficking
Sara Schaier
2021Location: USA
Community Served: Inmates of women’s prison
María Belen Gonzalez Gragera
2021Location: Spain
Community Served: Association of caregivers of chronic patients, Mallorca
Lineth Jezek
2021Location: California
Community Served: For staff and participants of the Bill Wilson Center offering services to address poverty
Lakiba Pittman
2021Location: USA
Community Served: BIPOC, LifeMoves, working with homeless individuals at ten shelters on the Penninsula
Jude Wolf
2021Location: USA
Community Served: Teachers in training who are suffering extreme burnout after a year of distance learning.
Dent Gitchel
2021Location: USA
Community Served: Front line advocacy workers, social policy and clergy
Cristina Castillo
2021Location: Spain
Community Served: Homeless center in Seville city
Carlos Herradon Vírseda
2021Location: Spain
Community Served: Imprisoned women in Madrid and Segovia
Burrell Poe
2021Location: USA
Community Served: Gang-involved men and women
Anne Walter
2021Location: USA
Community Served: Parents in early recovery from addiction with children under five years old
Angela Ortega
2021Location: Spain
Community Served: PROYECTO Hombre, which is a foundation for the rehabilitation of people in situations of drug addiction and other dependencies
Merlene Nieuwoudt
2021Location: South Africa
Community Served: Low Income Informal settlement community from Joe Slovo Park, Cape Town
Gabriela Saldaña
2021Location: Mexico
Community Served: Migrant women in the United States from Latin America
Amy Ang
2021Location: Malaysia
Community Served: Teachers at refugee school
Olga Restrepo Botero
2020Location: Colombia
Community Served: Women Venezuelan immigrants who are displaced from nearby rural areas and victims of violence
Soledad Cano
2020Location: Chile
Community Served: Professionals working in community mental health clinics
Jose Alberto Fonseca Roa
2020Location: Mexico
Community Served: People living with disabilities, rare and/or chronic degenerative diseases, and those who have experienced sexual violence
Kristy Banks
2020Location: USA
Community Served: Parents of students with special needs
Isabel Centeno
2020Location: Mexico
Community Served: Breast cancer patients (vulnerable diagnosed women)
Flávia C Kolchraiber
2020Location: Brazil
Community Served: Pregnant women assisted by the Center of Excellence in Early Childhood of Parelheiros - São Paulo
Enrique Luis Nicolas Cimino
2020Location: Argentina
Community Served: Health and Sanitary personnel of CEMAR (Public Medical Center for Specialty Care)
Catalina Rodriguez y Malva Uribe
2020Location: Chile and Colombia
Community Served: School teachers in Colombia and Chile
Nuria Bustamente
2020Location: Spain
Community Served: Alcoholics in detox program
Maria Laura Cuencio Rodriguez
2020Location: Argentina
Community Served: Inmates of prison 41 in Buenos Aires
Laura Ferrandiz
2020Location: Spain
Community Served: People working to support the integration of refugees in Madrid
Jose Luis Cuevas
2020Location: Chile
Community Served: Professionals in education and foundations/NGOs for young people in vulnerable sectors
Jason Mills
2020Location: Australia
Community Served: Parents of terminally ill children receiving hospice care
Elsa Nassar
2020Location: Mexico
Community Served: Women in prison
Claudia Jorquera Bernales
2020Location: Chile
Community Served: Clinical staff supporting vulnerable, judicialized children in Chile
Ana Maria Costa
2020Location: Brazil
Community Served: Women victims of domestic violence (physical, sexual and psychological)
Luis Simarro
2020Location: Madrid, Spain
Community Served: Parents of people with autism and intellectual disabilities
Lara Naughton
2017Location: Louisiana, USA