On June 30th, GNHUSA was an honored and enthusiastic participant in an exciting new international, collaborative effort to advance the happiness movement: The Happiness Roundtable. Founded and curated by Paul Rogers and Laura Musikanski, Executive Director of the Happiness Alliance, the…
As current president of GNHUSA, I am pleased and grateful to announce that both Laura Musikanski, executive director of the Happiness Alliance (happycounts.org) and Sharon Parker, who recently retired as the Assistant Chancellor for Equity and Diversity at the University of Washington…
Just out from our colleagues at the Happiness Alliance: an overview of 2017 data compiled from the Happiness Index, an online questionnaire available at happycounts.org. This year’s “Happiness Report Card” is a combination of disquieting data points along with encouraging…
When the residents of Portland, Oregon or Olympia, Washington or any of the other cities on Leg 13 of the Happiness Walk see Paula Francis and other walkers in their neon "Serious About Happiness" vests, they will likely not realize…
Results from the 2017 Vermont Happiness study are in, and 78% of Vermonters say they’re happy. This study, a unique collaboration between Gross National Happiness USA, the Happiness Alliance, the Vermont State Data Center and the Center for Rural Studies, explores Vermonters’ dispositions across 11 life domains including social connectedness,…
For Brian Kaminer, Ginny Sassaman, and Paula Francis -- the GNHUSA board members who traveled to the first World Happiness Summit (WoHaSu) in Miami in March, 2017 -- there was a lot to celebrate. From listening to Sir Richard Layard…
World Happiness Summit Yes, a GNHUSA delegation is headed for Miami, Florida in mid-March -- but don't expect us to spend a lot of time at the beach. Instead, Paula Francis, Brian Kaminer, and Ginny Sassaman plan to spend a…
On December 10, 2016, online news source Truthout published this very thoughtful essay by John de Graaf, the Director of Public Relations & Communications of the Happiness Alliance, on the need to move away from unrestrained capitalism toward a more cooperative way…
This essay is by Laura Musikanski, executive director and co-founder of the Happiness Alliance. Her reflection was originally published on April 25, 2016 at that group's blog site and remains timeless. Blog The best way to predict the future is to design…