Project Forgive (also known as the Project Forgive Foundation) is an American
501c3
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non-partisan, non-religious leadership foundation which educates university students in the topics of business that include diversity, integrity, collaboration, compassion and forgiveness in the workplace.
The project recently acquired further popularity for its
documentary film
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of the same name based on true stories of forgiveness. The film has been produced by the project's founder, six time
Emmy Awards
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winner, media expert, public speaker and film producer,
Shawne Duperon
Shawne Duperon is an American scholar, good gossip researcher, media expert, public speaker and a TV producer. She has won 6 Emmy Awards for her notable work which has also been featured in major media. She is best known for founding The Projec ...
. It is slated for release on PBS in 2016.
History
The project uses a collection of real life stories and serves as an inquiry to inspire a forgiveness movement around the globe. This campaign was
crowdsource
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d as a
Kickstarter
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project in April 2012.
The project focuses on "extraordinary acts of forgiveness in the face of heartbreak and senseless tragedy"
and serves as an inquiry into the meaning of forgiveness.
Project Forgive was founded as a case study project, by Shawne Duperon, an expert in the phenomenon of gossip as a research subject for 10 years,
to reach out to millions via social media for the cause.
Project Forgive drove its inspiration from a real life incident in which a Detroit-area mom and her two young sons were killed by a drunk driver who was eventually forgiven by the dead woman's husband.
Duperon discovered that the driver and the victims were all her friends.
In addition to pledges from international leaders like Archbishop
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 193126 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbish ...
, Project Forgive has been featured in major media channels
such as
CNN
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,
ABC
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Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting
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,
NBC
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,
and
Inc. Magazine
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.
The producer and founder of the project, Shawne Duperon, is a six time Emmy Awards Winner,
a communications scholar, a member of the
National Speakers Association
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History
NSA was f ...
and has also been awarded "Innovator of the Year" for 2005, and has been among top-10 women business owners in Michigan by The
National Association of Women Business Owners The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) is an organization in the United States founded in 1975 that has the purpose of networking the approximately 10.6 million women-owned businesses so as to provide mutual support, share resourc ...
in 2008.
In 2016, Duperon was nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize
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.
References
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External links
Official websiteShawneTV
American documentary films
Non-profit organizations based in the United States