Personal Songs Offer Musical Medicine to Sick Kids
An Iowa girl, whose stubborn leukemia is blasted every week with chemotherapy, jumped at the chance to receive a song made especially for her. It's called Songs of Love.
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Remodel Gives Dallas Army Veteran A Home Fit For A Hero
Trista Hopkins, a U.S. Army veteran in Dallas who was raising two daughters in a dilapidated home with holes in the roof and no running water, now has a renovated home with new furnishings -- just in time for Thanksgiving.
900 Lbs of Fruit Gleaned by Volunteers for Calif Food Pantry
Village Harvest began two years ago, when Craig Diserens founded a backyard gleaning effort in California that now gathers thousands of pounds of fresh fruit from historical orchards (some planted during the Gold Rush 150 years ago) and private property for donatation to food agencies.
Volunteers Are Making Mittens for Injured Koalas
Volunteers around the world are sewing and sending mittens to help koalas that suffered burns on their paws while trying to escape the catastrophic bush fires in South Australia and Victoria.
Girl Wins Top Prize Inventing Ebola Test That's Cheaper, Better, Faster
A 16-yr-old girl won the Google Science Fair with a test kit she invented that is cheap, easy to use in Africa, and takes 30 minutes to diagnose Ebola.
Microsoft Invests $75Mil to Encourage Aspiring Engineers in High School
Tech giant Microsoft will spend millions over the next three years to help high schools hook students on computer science as a career.
Join Thousands Converging on National Parks for Free Admission Saturday
On Saturday, September 24th, more than 170,000 Americans will volunteer at parks and beaches across the country building trails, removing invasive plants and picking up trash in honor of National Public Lands Day. Admission fees into national parks will by waived for the general public that day, a gift from the 100 or so parks that normally charge entrance fees.
Hundreds of Elderly Volunteers Want to Clean up Fukushima Plant
A group of more than 200 Japanese seniors are volunteering to clean up the mess left in the Fukushima nuclear power station. All are over the age of 60, many are retired engineers, and they are taking responsibility for the nuclear power plants which their generation erected.
Mormons Skip Church for Weeks to Volunteer for Families Flooded by Sandy
Thousands of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints volunteered for weeks following Hurricane Sandy, assisting the devastated families in digging out their flooded homes. A beautiful video was made on November 11th, when thousands of these church members cancelled their Sunday services and arrived by air, bus and train from all across the country to help.
A Peace Corps for Geeks? Nonprofit Donates Apps to Cities
Code for America is a new kind of public service. The 'Peace Corps for geeks' has developed apps that have trimmed Boston's costs for digging out fire hydrants after a snow and have made Philadelphia city services more accessible.
Elderly Man Starts Painting his Run-down Town, Strangers Join in
Jim Cotter was so sad after losing his wife last year that he needed to find something to do. He decided to spruce up his community -- by painting everything in sight. Well, the idea has really caught on. The once-thriving coal community of Glouster, Ohio had been peeling - and unappealing - for years. Now it glistens, every fence, building and guardrail.
Special Needs Middle School Girl Leads Campaign to Help Police
Born premature, Erin Baur (pictured, left) has learning, hearing and speech disabilities. She also has a passion for dogs. The Ohio middle schooler learned that Chief Powalie of Painesville Police Department would like a new K9 because his current K9 will be retiring soon, so she set out to raise $11,000 and rally a community.
Monkeys Give WAY Too Many Hugs to Animal Rescuers in Peru
While in Peru on a volunteer mission to improve an animal rescue reserve deep in the jungle, Trevor King found some unlikely friends in the mischievous monkey residents occupying the little piece of heaven.
Jewish, Muslim Volunteers Do Good Christmas Day Deeds
Across Detroit, organizers said nearly 1,000 Jewish volunteers did good deeds on Thursday's Mitzvah Day — an annual rite of community service on Dec. 25, when Christians typically want to be home celebrating Christmas, rather than doling servings at a soup kitchen. Increasingly for the last six Christmases, Muslims have joined the horde of Jewish volunteers
Homebound Elderly Across America Will Get The Gift of Puppy Love
Many homebound elderly people are deprived of the simple joys of puppy love, but this heartbreaking fact is about to change for some American seniors, thanks to Caregiver Canines.
New Orleans Firefighters Repaying the Favor for New Yorkers After Floods
After living through Hurricane Katrina six years ago, New Orleans firefighters recalled the help provided by New York City Firefighters, who arrived on the seen within days of the Louisiana levees breaking. Now they are repaying the favor, clearing out tons of debris in homes of firefighters whose Breezy Point homes were flooded.
Kate Middleton Picks Five Charities to Donate Her Time, Energy
The Duchess of Cambridge has chosen the good causes that will benefit from her publicity and volunteer work. Kate Middleton did the research herself and chose to support 5 groups through volunteering and becoming a patron.
Stranded Whales Now Far From Alone
Three remaining pilot whales from a pod of 23 stranded off the lower Florida keys have fought to stay alive with volunteers pouring in to help care for the group.
1,500 Employees Skip Holiday Party to Transform Local Farm
In place of a holiday party, computer technology company NVIDIA conducted one of Silicon Valley's largest-ever employee volunteer events, with 1,500 employees and family members building structures that transformed a local community farm, donating services and materials totaling $380,000.
Hero Teen Breaks High School Volunteer Record
Eboni Stevenson, a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School in Denver, won an award recently for devoting more than 3,000 hours of her time to volunteer work - a new record.