The Michigan employee ABC News named the "Man of the Week" for his loyalty to work, walking 21-miles to and from his job, was surprised with a new car at a local Ford dealership Friday. His story went viral after a college student raised $300,000 to buy him a vehicle following a compelling report in the Detroit Free Press about the man's dedication to his job, despite grueling winter hikes each day.
Special Spaces of San Francisco partnered with Disney On Ice performers this week to transform the small bedroom of a boy with leukemia into a place fit for a king -- a Lion King, which is one of Austin's favorite movies.
Instead of holding up his phone to capture dramatic images of a fire on Mission Street in San Francisco, which displaced 54 people in apartments above small businesses, 26-year-old Zack Crockett found a way to help the distraught fire victims.
While on his bicycle Jesse Gamble was hit by a drunk driver, but through his death, the 19 year-old art student from Lexington, South Carolina, saved the lives of seven other people. Last week his mother got to hear his heart beating when she embraced a man who survives thanks to an organ donation.
When their mother Mary died during childbirth in a Charlotte, North Carolina hospital there was no one left to raise her nine children. The only realistic option appeared to be to divide up the siblings and ship them off to relatives or foster parents, but 19-year-old Kayle Mingo decided to fight to keep their family together. 35 years later a reunion showed how successful they were.
74-year-old Bill Bresnan has written a love letter to his wife Kirsten every day for nearly 40 years.
Six months ago, Raphael Hameed was walking with his 5-year-old son, Ish, when they were hit by a speeding car. NPR wrote: Raphael was seriously injured, but Ish, his only child, was killed. The driver's sister, Megiddëh Goldston, has formed a bond with the Hameed family and now visits them to help with their day-to-day […]
It's every fan's dream come true: Tony Stark (aka RDJ) just announced a new program that sends him socializing with fans for the sake of charity.
No matter this man's back story, we just loved this photo. On Christmas Eve in Worcester, Massachusetts, Thomas Joseph Bennet held a sign on the street thanking all those who helped him in the past.
After witnessing the success of the dollar pizza stores in Manhattan, Mason Wartman left his job on Wall Street to move back to Philadelphia to open one of his own. What he didn't know then was that Rosa's Fresh Pizza would become a bastion of kindness for customers paying it forward by buying slices for others.
A Minnesota woman who turned 100 leads an exercise class and says she doesn't allow age to slow her down. She insists that the key to longevity is a positive attitude.
A photo of a man in need getting some help at a Chick-fil-A restaurant alongside a highway in Birmingham, Alabama is inspiring viewers far and wide. The restaurant's owner, known for his kindness, gave a man free food and handed him his gloves so the man might be warmer in the cold.
Diehard Seahawks fan Sherri Forch has never been to a game. That will change Saturday, when she will not only attend the Seahawks' divisional playoff game in a wheelchair, but be right on the 50-yard line under shelter, thanks to generous fans and family.
Brittney Husbyn had already practiced walking down the aisle with her fiancé Briggs Fussy, but it was 20 years earlier. They got married this weekend decades after serving as ring bearer and flower girl at a wedding in 1995 as 3-year-olds.
The principal of a school outside of Louisville, KY, where 75 percent of students live below the poverty line, realized her students were so poor that most didn't have decent shoes. So she decided to hold a fundraiser, and it succeeded beyond her wildest imagination.
A taxi driver in Philadelphia was "shocked and overjoyed" when he received a $989.98 tip on a $4.31 fare 12 days before Christmas. Taxi driver Oumar Maiga, who always has a smile on his face, was working the late shift for Freedom Taxi service when the generous passenger flagged down his cab for a quick two-minute ride. After finding out the man's evening had been hectic, the mysterious rider said he was going to "take care of him."
A stranger came up to a woman in Windsor, Canada, while she was shopping with her children, and gave her a very touching note that made her day. She was in tears while she described the story saying that the stranger "assured me that I am a great mother even though sometimes every parent questions themselves."
Volunteers in LA are personally distributing survival kits throughout the year to people living on the streets. One man's life was turned around by the act of kindness and, now employed, the vet is handing out the duffel bags alongside the man who helped him.
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Carsten knew he only had hours left to live – so he spent his final moments with his family in front of the sunset, with cigarette and wine in hand.