In The News

June 22, 2025
Missouri Broadcasters Association

Kansas City PBS, Flatland Named Finalists for 2025 MBA Awards in 7 Categories. Healing Hate, about Mindy Corporon and her friendship with Sunayana Dumala, won FIRST PLACE in documentary at the Missouri Broadcast Awards.

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Link to Healing Hate page at Kansas City PBS.

May 25, 2025
i24 News

Holy Land uncovered with Sarah Frances. Mindy was honored to be interviewed by Emily Frances on i24 News, sharing the mission of SevenDays® and our commitment to overcoming hate with kindness and understanding

Link to YouTube video.

May 23, 2025
Fox4 News

Local Jewish community reacts to Sarah Milgrim killing: ‘A moment of pain’. Sarah Milgrim’s murder in Washington, D.C., leaves many community advocates speaking out against acts of antisemitic violence.

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May 22, 2025
KMBC9

Billboards in Kansas City raise awareness amid rise in antisemitic incidents nationwide. Large pink billboards have been placed in high-traffic areas around downtown Kansas City.

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May 8, 2025
The Jewish Chronical

SevenDays seeking area teens for 2025-2026 Kindness Youth Leadership Team. SevenDays invites area high schoolers to apply to its Kindness Youth Leadership (KYLT) team for the 2025-2026 school year.

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Link to KYLT page.

April 2025
KMBC9

SevenDays inspires kindness in Kansas City and beyond. 

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April 11, 2025
Johnson County Post

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.

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April 10, 2025
KMBC9

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.

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April 4, 2025
KSHB 41

‘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.

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April 3, 2025
The Jewish Chronicle

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.

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March 31, 2025
KSHB 41

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

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March 31, 2025
KSHB 41

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.

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March 31, 2025
The Kansas City Star

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.

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March 27, 2025
The Jewish Chronicle

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.

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February 20, 2025
The Jewish Chronicle

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

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January 6, 2025
Statement from Mindy Corporon, Co-founder & BOD: New Orleans Attack

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.

Link to full statement

December 30, 2024
KSHB 41

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.

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December 5, 2024
The Jewish Chronicle

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

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November 19, 2024
KCTV5

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.

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October 14, 2024
Johnson County Post

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.

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October 13, 2024
KCTV5

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.

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October 13, 2024
KMBC9

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.

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