Our practices have earned this Gold Seal

For the first time in our 15-year history the Humanity Project has earned the Gold Seal of Transparency from GuideStar, the highly respected nonprofit information service. This follows several years of winning the GuideStar Silver Seal designation — which also is coveted.

But the Gold Seal goes a step further to assure Humanity Project sponsors, donors, supporters and friends that our practices are open, honest and responsible. In other words, we do what we say we do … and we live up to our motto: “Equality For Each, Respect For All!” We indeed take our mission seriously at the Humanity Project. And we work hard to teach our core values to both children and adults, with free programs, videos, blogs, podcasts, writings and other materials available worldwide.

We hope you’ll join our march for greater equality by signing the Pledge For Humanity, which makes you an official Humanity Project member at no cost. If you do, you will soon receive a personal thank you email from our founder — and information about how you can get more involved in our work. The time for healing our communities has come, a drive toward equality and respect for all. We need your help to make it happen.

Screen capture: Humanity Project website visitors

Just take a good look at that photo above -- it's a screen capture from December 19, 2017, two days ago as we post this blog. Or glance through a similar photo below, snapped only moments ago. These are representative pics that show us something new: We now know that people from all over the world regularly and frequently visit our Humanity Project website.

Wow, how cool is that?! India, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, China, even Syria among many other countries whose citizens visit us.

Yes, we've long understood that our reach is broad. Of course we connect with many folks in our own area here in South Florida and all over this state as well as around the United States and Canada. We also have heard from lots of people over the years from a variety of nations around the globe. But until now, we didn't know how many other people from Asia and Europe, from South America and Oceania/Australia and Africa use this Humanity Project website. A new analytics app from our friends at Squarespace, which hosts our site, shows that humans spread throughout the planet watch our videos, read our fables and blogs and other free writings. They listen to our music and check out our podcasts. They learn from our programs. The videos and fables especially are popular.

This is exciting news to us. We've always envisioned the Humanity Project as an organization that could enable a broad range of people to help themselves through helping others. Our kids do this by helping other kids. Our Board of Directors, Leadership Council, members, donors, volunteers, supporters, social media followers -- all gain in some way or other through applying the shared value philosophy created by Humanity Project Founder, Bob Knotts. It's an empirically based concept grounded in solid psychology, the main idea being that individuals feel better about themselves by treating everyone else with unconditional respect. You can read more about shared value at this link: Read the Shared Value essay.

But until now, we didn't know for sure that so many diverse populations derive so much inspiration and information from our free website.

This is all we can say to each of you who read this, to everyone who visits and gains anything of value from the Humanity Project. Thank you! Thank you so much ... and welcome! We're so glad you're here.

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