Project Forgive
Project Forgive (also known as the Project Forgive Foundation) is an American 501c3 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 of the same name based on true stories of forgiveness. The film has been produced by the project's founder, six time Emmy Awards winner, media expert, public speaker and film producer, Shawne Duperon. 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 crowdsourced as a Kickstarter 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