We've seen a lot of media stories featuring the wonders of Facebook. But these amazing outcomes will cheer even the surliest of social media critics. From the past year, the Good News Network chooses these six tales as the most inspiring.
After a spate of recent muggings and robberies, a group of 20 Bedford-Stuyvesant men started escorting people home as they got off the train and are walking through the neighborhood reaching out to young men. They also sponsored a neighborhood outreach walk earlier this month, stopping to talk to young men hanging out on the corners.
Eric Sheptock has 4,548 Facebook friends, 839 Twitter followers, two blogs and an e-mail account with 1,600 unread messages. What he doesn't have is a place to live, which is what gives this unemployed former crack addict who hasn't had a permanent address in 15 years his clout on the issue of homelessness.
Two neighboring families are using the power of a Christmas light display to feed a lot of hungry people in the San Francisco Bay Area. The inspiring project not only has the charity component, but also a forward-thinking, environmentally-sustainable foundation, with 100% solar power and LED lights to cut energy usage.
Schwinn is giving away free bikes to needy kids for Christmas and you can give one too! Just send a free e-card featuring the Schwinn Bell Choir playing holiday tunes, like Jingle Bells, on the bells from their bicycles. For every card send, a bike will be donated. The more you share, the more they […]
Taiwan's Justice Ministry offers a free forensic service for repairing damaged cash, which is lucky for Lin, the man who accidentally shredded $6,600 last month. Nicknamed the jigsaw expert a specialist took just seven days to piece together the remains of 200 $1,000 Thai bills that were mistakenly dropped into a shredding machine.
An online video series begins today telling the story of Kia Scherr, a wife and mother, who has forgiven the unforgiveable. Her husband and 13-year-old daughter were murdered two years ago in the Mubai terrorist attacks, while they huddled together under a table in the Oberoi Hotel restaurant.
The same TV news helicopter pilot who four years ago pushed a deer on an icy pond to safety using the wind from his rotors, has once again made national news saving a trapped calf -- pushing with the same big wind gust, after the animal lost all footing and was stuck on the ice.
San Francisco's first medical clinic staffed by volunteers is full of health professionals who've failed - at retirement. The Clinic by the Bay opened Tuesday to serve uninsured residents as the first free clinic in Northern California.
The civilians behind the National Kidney Registry website have organized transplants for record numbers of kidney patients over the last three years. Today, the momentum will continue with the largest kidney chain to date, a swap that is expected to save 28 lives, thanks to strangers paying it forward.
People say they've been getting slowly happier. In 45 of 52 countries, happiness has risen during the past 30 years. This coincides with people getting richer. Contrary to myth, rich countries have slightly happier citizens than poor countries. What is it about prosperity that brings happiness?
After her brother died in Britain a woman in her 70's was cleaning out his flat and came across a dusty oriental vase propping up books amid cobwebs on the man's tall book shelf. One month later when it was put up for auction in London, it sold for a record $69 million (plus fees) and was called unbelievably rare, with nothing like it outside the Palace Museum in Beijing.
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