What is a Compassionate Organization?

Compassionate organizations are those that take responsibility to prevent and alleviate the suffering of all of its stakeholders. They have a strong and abiding emotional connection and investment in them.

— Ari Cowan

Compassion in Five Easy Pieces

One way to look at how compassion manifests organizationally is to punctuate compassionate action into five groups with common characteristics. These five "easy pieces" generally fall into faith-based, institutional, professional secular, individual, and aspirational threads.

— Ari Cowan