Photos: Blue Valley students walk to honor shooting victims’ legacy of kindness. The school’s SevenDays Club led the Kindness Walk on Thursday afternoon. Students walked around the track in groups as part of the event.
Over 1,400 participate at SevenDays walk at Blue Valley North. It’s all part of The Seven Days effort honoring the memories of Reat Underwood, William Corporon and Terri LaManno. The walk at Blue Valley High School serves as a remembrance for the three victims killed 11 years ago.
‘Makes you belong more’: SevenDays celebrates differences through kindness. The non-profit SevenDays was born, giving people a platform to spread kindness together and to unite not despite their differences – but because of them.
Jewish students help spread kindness in SevenDays youth leadership team. Students in the KYLT meet monthly to participate in leadership training, perform acts of community service and advance SevenDays’ message of spreading kindness at their schools.
Kicking off SevenDays’ Kindness Week: Youth leaders teach students it doesn’t take much to make someone’s day. Youth leaders spoke to elementary and middle schoolers at St. Elizabeth’s about the importance of being kind all year round
Louisburg teen accepts SevenDays’ Ripple of Kindness Award. Among the recognized individuals is 18-year-old Sammie Magee, of Louisburg, Kansas. Magee is the first youth recipient of the award.
Social media distort young people’s self image. Safe Reflections can help. Students at Blue Valley West participated in an activity where they wrote an insecurity on a sticky note. They then passed the note to the person next to them, and that person instead wrote a compliment on the back.
My kindness journey to diminish hate in our world. In August of 2023, I joined SevenDays, an organization that aims to combat hate by spreading kindness through education and dialogue. I wanted to learn how to combat hate alongside a group of teens with the same mission.
SevenDays 2025 commemorates second decade of kindness; names 12 Ripple of Kindness winners. In its second decade, SevenDays 2025 continues the healing journey following the murders that took the lives outside of Jewish facilities in April 2014
Hatred claimed at least 14 lives and injured dozens on Bourbon Street in New Orleans as the New Year dawned. Those killed included a single mother, a father of two, a college student, and a recent high school graduate.
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SevenDays Kindness Action Scholarship application open for high school seniors. SevenDays, the Kansas City nonprofit, is looking for high school seniors to apply for its annual Kindness Action Scholarship.
SevenDays seeks nominations for 2025 Ripple of Kindness Award. Nominations are open until midnight on Dec. 24. The winner(s) will be honored at SevenDays’ Cultivate Kindness Breakfast on Wednesday, April 2
New group of area high-schoolers convene to spread messages of kindness. Area high-schoolers were embarking on a mission to spread kindness to combat hate and violence.
Overland Park joins effort helping cities around the globe tackle hate. Overland Park participates in a pilot program with the Strong Cities Network designed to help communities prevent and combat hate, extremism, polarization, and terrorism.
Weekend clinic in the Kansas City metro focuses on football and kindness. The American Ballers and the SevenDays Foundation teamed up to put on an event to enrich the lives of children across the Kansas City metro area.
Kids learn teamwork and kindness at local football workshop. Children at the American Ballers football workshop at the Jewish Community Center learned that being a good teammate is about more than just playing well. It’s about treating others with kindness.
SevenDays and Pay It Forward 9/11 Bring Kindness Together. Two organizations born out of tragedy came together to continue their efforts to fight hate.
Youth clean up Overland Park Fire Department’s 9/11 Memorial as service project before tragic anniversary. Youth volunteering through SevenDays did an act of kindness by cleaning the Overland Park 9/11 memorial.
Teens volunteer to clean up Overland Park Fire Department’s 9/11 memorial. Overland Park’s 9/11 memorial was clean for the upcoming 23rd anniversary of this tragic event.
Jewish Community Center hosts Former Royals GM Dayton Moore’s C You in the Major Leagues Baseball Camp; 10th anniversary marked with donation to SevenDays.
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Former Royals VP Dayton Moore hosts baseball camp at the J, donates to SevenDays. For the 10th year, the C You in the Major Leagues Foundation held its Youth Baseball Camp at The J and at the end of it, Moore presented a $5,000 donation to SevenDays.
Dayton Moore proud of Royals foundation built during his watch as team executive. Former Royals executive Dayton Moore presents a check to Tony Corporon of the SevenDays Foundation.
Dayton Moore announces donation to SevenDays. The nonprofit was founded after a white supremacist killed three people at the Jewish Community Center 10 years ago.
Former Royals President calls Witt Jr. ‘most talented player’ in baseball. Moore’s foundation donated $5,000 to the SevenDays Foundation
Summit calls for ‘whole-of-society’ approach to antisemitism. The first-ever summit in the Kansas City region to address combating antisemitism. Three archdiocesan high school students are combating hatred with kindness through their role on the SevenDays Kindness Youth Leadership Team (KYLT).
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.
Local students honored for spreading kindness. Segment starts at 2:00 and ends at 13:37.
‘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.
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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