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From Hatred to Kindness 10 Years Later
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April 15, 2024

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.

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April 13, 2024

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

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April 12, 2024

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.

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April 11, 2024

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.

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April 10, 2024

SevenDays founder shares how nonprofit grew hope out of tragedy. ‘Hate has no boundaries … and neither does kindness’

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April 10, 2024

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.

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April 9, 2024

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.

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April 3, 2024
Kansas Ciy Star

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.

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March 19, 2024
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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.

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March 15, 2024
BOD Statement:
Community Blood Center and SevenDays® Call for Public to Give Blood This April

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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March 7, 2024
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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.

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February 2024
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SevenDays Kindness Youth Leadership Team Helps Hospice. The youth leadership team baked cookies for residents and staff at the Kansas City Hospice House.

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February 15, 2024
BOD Statement: Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl Parade.

SevenDays publishes a statement regarding the violence that erupted at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl Parade.

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December 28, 2023
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SevenDays Kindness Scholarship. SevenDays offering $1,000 scholarships for acts of kindness.

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December 1, 2023
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High school artists needed for SevenDays’ button art competition.

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December 1, 2023
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High school artists needed for SevenDays’ button art competition.

Click on thumbnails below video for two added stories, Jill Andersen and KYLT member Kayla Gele

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November 17, 2023
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Co-founder of nonprofit SevenDays speaks on “kindness” to Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy students

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October 19, 2023
BOD Statement on Murder of Child Outside of Chicago.

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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June 16, 2023
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Kansas City-area community reacts to Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting ruling.

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June 16, 2023
BOD Statement on Tree of Life Shooter Conviction.

SevenDays® expresses its profound gratitude for the system of justice in Pittsburgh, PA, that held accountable Antisemite Robert Bowers.

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