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OUR PURPOSE
TO EDUCATE OUR YOUTH ON THE IMPACTS OF BULLYING, RACISM, AND PREJUDICE
OUR VISION
TO CREATE A GENERATION OF
SOCIALLY - RESPONSIBLE YOUNG
ADULTS, AWARE OF THE MANY FORMS
OF BULLYING AND WILLING TO
RESPOND WHEN CONFRONTED WITH
PREJUDICE, STEREOTYPING AND APATHY
OUR STORY
Embracing Tolerance is born upon a simple request of a Holocaust survivor
Our founder, Steve Sutton, was meeting a friend, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for coffee in Alpharetta, Georgia one morning. The friend's father accompanied his son that morning. The older gentleman spoke limited English but participated in the conversation to the best of his abilities. The father shared that he lived in Israel, having immigrated there many years ago after surviving the Holocaust in Europe. As they were finishing their conversation, the father, in broken English, put his hand on Steve's arm and the father made a simple request: to visit his barracks at Auschwitz where he had survived many months.
OUR PROGRESS
2010
Holocaust Walls erected memorializing over 1,100 victims (mostly children) of religious hatred
May 2011
Reached goal to educate more than 1,500 Georgia students through speaker programs and educational workshops
November 2014
Second stepUp 5K Race to Embrace Tolerance attracts 225 runners and features a writing contest (They Stood Up)
September 2015
Embracing Tolerance leads two-part educational seminar on the impact of 'apathy' and 'group think' related to stereotyping, discrimination, and violence committed through genocides of the 20th century
March 2020
Upcoming stepUp 5k
Race to Embrace
Tolerance in Johns
Creek, Georgia
January 2009
Steve Sutton has a chance encounter with a Holocaust survivor. Shortly thereafter, Steve founded Embracing Tolerance to combat racism and hatred
July 2015
The fourth plaque recognizing "Heroes" of WWII who confronted religious tyranny by saving thousands of lives is erected as a teaching tool
April 2016
Speaker series achieves goal to educate 2,000 students when Dr. Gene Schoenfeld presents 'My Reconstructed Life' and 'Faith and Conflict' to the St. Francis High School students, faculty, and administration
Inaugural stepUp 5K race includes guest speaker Ngor Kur Mayol, a Lost Boy of Sudan. Race attracted 330 runners
November 2013
2011
Partners with the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust to provide over 70 educational learning trunks to middle schools across Georgia
May 2009
Holocaust Remembrance Trip to Poland to visit: The Warsaw Ghetto, The Radegast Train Station, and concentration camps (Auschwitz, Birchenau, and Chelmno)
The purpose of this 5K
race is to provide support for Embracing Tolerance, an education and awareness program using the lessons of the Holocaust, Darfur, Rwanda, and other 20th-century acts of intolerance as a backdrop. Embracing Tolerance seeks to arm this generation's pre-teens and teenagers with knowledge, empathy, and responsiveness to combat bullyinng, racism, and prejudice
08
MARCH
2020
WE CAN STAND IDLY BY AND WATCH AS INTOLERANCE HAPPENS AROUND US - AROUND THE WORLD AND IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS - OR WE CAN TAKE ACTION.
For sponsorship questions, and more information, please contact us at HERE
WORKSHOP SERIES
Lessons from the Past - Headlines from the Present
The Reality
of
Bullying
Common
Traits of HEROES
Education Starts
at Home
Everyone's a Bystander. Until They're Not!
Speaker Series
