Pass It Forward – The Australian kindness movement

Catherine Ryan Hide
Vision & Inspiration (Honorary member)

Catherine is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Pay It Forward, which has been made into a film by Warner Bros in which our movement was inspired. Although she is not officially part of our team, our movement would not exist  if she had not written the book and if she had not managed to get it authored as a movie. As a result, we have given her lifetime honorary membership in our team.

Diego Villaveces (The crazy Colombian)
Founder and CEO

Diego is a socialpreneur, published author, thought leader and creative theorist who was born in Colombia and now lives in Sydney with his wife and 2 children. Founder of this movement, Diego set the original goal of inspiring 5 million incremental acts of kindness by 2012. (the original goal was 1 million, but he felt a stretch was in order). As Founder and CEO of the PIF team, Diego is one of our key decision makers and sets the direction of where to take the team.

Lughan (Prolific artist)
Ambassador

Lughan is a prolific and experienced artist who lives in Colombia. Diego’s mother and a great influence in his thinking, Lughan can be credited with giving him support and education from an early age and setting him on the path to creating this movement. A few of her other achievements include being a professional piano player, giving innovative mixed-media concert-exhibitions, authoring several books and creating artistic forms of expression in oil paintings, pastels, water colours and sculpture, amongst others.

Caitlin Heming (Recruitment consultant with MD Group)
Ambassador

Caitlin is a socially networked headhunter who has kindly offered her services pro-bono for people who are struggling with finding a job. As evidenced by the litany of recommendations in her LinkedIn profile, Caitlin is a consummate professional devoted to assisting others achieve their dreams in the professional arena.

Ed & Isabel Pereira (President of the White Rock/South Surrey branch of the Canadian Cancer Society in BC Canada)
Ambassador

Samm (Chinese graphic artist)
Member

Sasy (currently part of raybusiness.com in Thailand)
Member

Lovy Pinto
Member

Harshi (Struggling Soul)
Trainee

Want to be part of our team?

We are looking for more people to join our team and help us achieve our goal of 5 million incremental acts of kindness by the year 2012. If you want to be a part of this effort, please send us an email to info {@t} pifaustralia {d0t} org and tell us how you would like to contribute. A short bio (one paragraph) and a photo will help us recognise your contribution in these pages, so please include those on the email, as well as a short description of your talents (what you do better than other people) and your passions (what you enjoy doing most).