Topic: Pomona’s Kindness Carnival: A Report from the Folks Who Made it Happen

Presenters: Dick Bunce, Andrew Quinones, Jan Chase, and Renee Barbee

Cobb Institute has often focused our conversation on our neighbor town of Pomona, which has officially joined the Compassionate City movement. When we heard of the great success of their October 14 Kindness Carnival, we asked Cobb Institute board member Dick Bunce, an activist resident of Pomona, to share the experience with Cobb & Friends. Bunce is retired from pastoral ministry and management of nonprofit organizations. He will introduce key persons who made it happen and moderate our discussion. We’ll learn about the City of Pomona from carnival co-host Andrew Quinones, a Pomona native and community leader who is Executive Director of Southern California Service Corp. The Rev. Jan Chase, pastor of the local Unity Church and interfaith leader in the region, is convener of Compassionate Pomona. She will discuss the role of the annual carnival within the global Compassionate City movement. Renee Barbee, Vice-President of Marketing and Operations of the local bilingual newspaper, La Nueva Voz, was the carnival’s principal organizer. She will share specific details about the carnival. See information about the event in the Daily Bulletin and the website of Compassionate Pomona. Dick Bunce hopes that “people would come away with enough of an understanding to consider implications for their own communities.” 

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