‘Drive out the darkness.’ New data shows antisemitism is still on the rise. In 2023, the ADL tracked 8,673 antisemitic incidents nationwide, a 140% increase from 2022.
Kansas City, Missouri, symposium aims to combat antisemitism, talk about solutions. The goal is to bring in local and national leaders to take part in conversations on rising antisemitism.
Kansas Citians Donate Blood in Honor of Jewish Community Center Victims. SevenDays organized a blood drive in honor of the three victims who died in this shooting in 2014.
KC native brings healing through music at SevenDays Community Kindness Festival. Kate Cosentino, the festival’s headliner and Terri LaManno’s cousin, grew up singing at the Jewish Community Center
SevenDays helps students, teachers learn, share kindness. Our community continues to honor the lives lost 10 years later by learning from the past, while also shaping our future; moving from hatred to kindness.
SevenDays holds Kindness Walk at Blue Valley High school. Since this horrible tragedy, kindness walks have become a tradition across the Blue Valley School District.
SevenDays founder shares how nonprofit grew hope out of tragedy. ‘Hate has no boundaries … and neither does kindness’
SevenDays Kindness Breakfast kicks off 7 days of events promoting love, connection. Inspiring other people to be kind to each other and spreading love was the goal of the SevenDays Kindness Breakfast.
SevenDays hosts Kindness Walk at Blue Valley North High School. Students wrote down an act of kindness and tied it onto the gate. Acts of kindness inluded: giving a stranger a compliment, helping with siblings, and making cookies for family members.
Become a part of the Ripple Effect. Kansas City’s SevenDays© organization celebrates 10 years of spreading kindness and making our world a more accepting place.
Healing Hate: Building Resilience Through Community. In collaboration with the PBS special ‘Healing Hate’, Flatland in Focus speaks with survivors of the 2014 shooting at the Overland Park Jewish Community Center to see how one act of hate has impacted their lives.
Healing Hate: How to Build a More Resilient Kansas City. A decade after an antisemitic hate crime, communities embrace the science behind helping children recover.
In KC, second gentleman Doug Emhoff calls U.S. support of Israel’s security ‘ironclad’. Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of an American president or vice president, has made combating antisemitism a priority as second gentleman.
JCRF/AJC Summit underscores extent of antisemitism in the heartland. JCRF/AJC Executive Director Gavnela Geller and SevenDays© founder Mindy Corporon made opening remarks, summarizing the rise of antisemitism and hatred since the 2014 shootings.
Kindness Festival commemorates 10th anniversary of Jewish Community Center shooting. Hundreds came together in the name of kindness. “We would have not been able to get over this tragedy without our community,” said Lukas Losen, brother and grandson of two victims.
SevenDays leaders mark 10th anniversary of tragic shooting with two ‘Kindness’ events. SevenDays will commemorate the 10th anniversary of this tragedy with its annual Kindness Breakfast and its first Community Kindness Festival.
Combatting hate with kindness. Learn more about SevenDays, an organization that has made it their mission to spread kindness, and how some area students have picked up the torch.
10 years after hate crime murders outside of Jewish facilities, individuals are invited to promote kindness through the lifesaving act of giving blood.
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Ripple of Kindness Award Finalists. SevenDays names ten 2024 Ripple of Kindness Award finalists who will be featured for their kindness as the organization commemorates its 10th anniversary.
SevenDays Kindness Youth Leadership Team Helps Hospice. The youth leadership team baked cookies for residents and staff at the Kansas City Hospice House.
SevenDays publishes a statement regarding the violence that erupted at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl Parade.
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SevenDays Kindness Scholarship. SevenDays offering $1,000 scholarships for acts of kindness.
High school artists needed for SevenDays’ button art competition.
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High school artists needed for SevenDays’ button art competition.
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Co-founder of nonprofit SevenDays speaks on “kindness” to Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy students
SevenDays® expresses deep sadness after last Sunday’s stabbing death of six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume, a Palestinian-American in Plainfield Township, a suburb of Chicago.
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Kansas City-area community reacts to Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting ruling.
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SevenDays® expresses its profound gratitude for the system of justice in Pittsburgh, PA, that held accountable Antisemite Robert Bowers.
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