2025 Promotional Partners
We are very grateful to the following kind organizations who have generously agreed to help promote the Our World Is Kind contest.
Charter for Compassion’s vision is a world where everyone is committed to living by the principle of compassion. On February 28, 2008 acclaimed scholar and bestselling author Karen Armstrong received the TED Prize and made a wish—to help create, launch, and propagate a Charter for Compassion. After much work and the contribution of thousands of people the Charter was unveiled to the world on November 12, 2009. The Council of Conscience helped to formulate the Charter for Compassion document.
The Charter for Compassion inherits a confluence of contributions made by TED.com, the Compassionate Action Network, the Fetzer Institute, and many others. Charter for Compassion provides an umbrella for people to engage in collaborative partnerships worldwide. Our mission is to bring to life the principles articulated in the Charter for Compassion through concrete, practical action in a myriad of sectors.
GMX is the leading email and communications platform in the DACH region. GMX offers its more than 20 million customers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland a broad portfolio: In addition to free basic services, this includes premium mail and cloud services, as well as one of the leading editorial news providers in the German-speaking world.
As a founding member of the “E-Mail made in Germany” initiative, GMX ensures the highest security and data protection standards. GMX services are also available in the UK, France and Spain.
From this strong market position, GMX develops services and apps that simplify users’ digital lives – from office tools and cloud solutions to personal ID management. By leveraging big data and artificial intelligence, targeted content and advertising solutions are created.
Momenta Workshops was launched 14 years ago to train photographers in travel documentary and nonprofit storytelling. With more than 900 students and 70+ workshops around the globe, the Momenta model has been helping photographers connect with important stories around the globe. They have changed the way nonprofits think about photography and happily have helped to create new careers for students.
Momenta’s photography training workshops pair professional and amateur photographers with nonprofits for three days to document their activities. When clients are finished, they donate a selection of the images to their nonprofit partner. Momenta works closely with small, local nonprofits to create a perfect match between photographer and nonprofit and ensure that both parties are empowered to create and share the powerful stories of the work these organizations are doing to improve their communities every single day.
The Society for Photographic Education is the leading forum for fostering understanding of photography in all its forms and related media. SPE engages its worldwide membership and affiliated communities through a range of supportive platforms including conferences, events, and publications.
Social Documentary Network (SDN), founded in 2008, is a global community of documentary photographers, editors, curators, NGOs, students, journalists and others who believe in the power of visual storytelling to build understanding and appreciation for the complexities, nuances, wonders, and contradictions that abound in the world today.
Since our founding, the SDN website has featured more than 4,000 exhibits by nearly 3,500 photographers from all corners of the globe. We also create gallery exhibitions, educational programs, lecture series, award programs, portfolio reviews, and our flagship print and digital magazine founded in 2015, ZEKE: The Magazine of Global Documentary.
In 2020, SDN founded a parent nonprofit organization, Reportage International, which is now the umbrella organization set up to support the programs of both SDN and ZEKE.