Changing the world, child by child

Help children with emotional literacy

Summary

Roots of Empathy is an evidence-based classroom program which has shown dramatic effect in reducing aggression and violence among elementary school children while raising social/emotional literacy. project reportread updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $5,000 was raised for this project.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Roots of Empathy's goal is to build social and emotional literacy, decrease levels of violence and aggression and break intergenerational cycles of abuse and neglect among school children. ROE is expanding internationally with programs across Canada, in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and the U.K. "Emotions are the first language of the child and the universal language" - Mary Gordon, President/Founder, Roots of Empathy

Activities

“ROE gave our students an opportunity to interact with a loving, caring, supportive family over the course of the school year… this spark, this light that is empathy is an ember that continues to burn within their hearts. ~ ROE classroom teacher

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $5,000

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $5,000 .  The original project funding goal was $5,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

Resources

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

ROE builds empathy in school children with a view to decreasing violence and aggression and breaking intergernational cycles of abuse and neglect. It has reached 213,725 Canadian schoolchildren since 1996 and continues to expand annually.

Project Message

In response to the question “What can Roots of Empathy teach the world? “That people are special in their own way and you don’t have to fight to resolve a conflict”.
- Grade 5 boy with ROE program, Student in ROE classroom

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Stefanie Di Risio
Manager of Communications & Marketing
215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 160
Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7
Canada
1.416.204.7882
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Roots of Empathy
215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 160
Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7
Canada
416.944.3001
http://www.rootsofempathy.org

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in CanadaCanada and can also be found under EducationEducation.

For more information about Canada, read the Human Development Report on Canada or the Wikipedia entry for Canada.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 10, 2006

Latest Update from the Field

Re: Project Update

By Stefanie Di Risio - Manager of Communications and Marketing, August 05, 2008 06:11 PM

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Roots of Empathy is an evidence-based classroom program which has shown dramatic effect in reducing aggression and violence among elementary school children while raising social/emotional literacy.

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