Hospital's Help to Dying Man Prompts Flood of Messages
A Boston Globe reporter was swamped with notes from people reacting to his story on Patrick Conway, a dying homeless man taken in by a hospital.
A Boston Globe reporter was swamped with notes from people reacting to his story on Patrick Conway, a dying homeless man taken in by a hospital.
College Grads traveled across the country interviewing people who love their jobs. This video finds them in Washington, D.C mid-way through their cross-country pursuit of people who have passion for their work...
Poor Ugandan women who were living on the streets begging for food, have now turned their lives around after joining BeadForLife, a small Colorado-based nonprofit group dedicated to eliminating poverty through handcrafts.
This story would be really sad if it weren't for the inspired attitude ringing from this young woman's lips. She is one of only 126 people in the world to have a rare deforming disease that, in her case, has enlarged her legs to beyond imaginable proportions and might lead to amputation. Instead of dwelling […]
Sometimes something will happen so unexpected that the event leaves us in such a state of awe that we are incapable of saying anything more than a simple thank you. We never know the depth of impact it will have on another when we practice random acts of kindness. This is what happened to me […]
Nine children and their mother were saved from homelessness after local business owner Brent Burger. He says he doesn't know why he was so moved by a story in the newspaper, but decided he had to help.
WS-i is launching the new Great Mentors audio series this weekend with a free tele-seminar featuring Tal Ben-Shahar, happiness mentor to hundreds of students taking his popular Harvard University class in positive psychology. T
If you had one message to give the world, what would it be? A dying professor gives an inspirational farewell lecture.
Artists, activists, and citizens will transform metered parking spaces around San Francisco into parks, playgrounds, and social "PARK(ing)spaces" on the first official Park(ing) Day.
The first annual National Thank You Day launches this month with a contest to search for one small deed that deserves one big thank you with a prize of $20,000 from merci® European Chocolates and etiquette expert, Peggy Post.
In the last four years, a growing number of baby boomers are showing up in the freshman class of state legislatures, eschewing retirement in favor of meaningful second careers.
While some South Dakota whites will always be bitter about the modern Wounded Knee standoff three decades ago, a Native American national newspaper reporter says a recent benefit concert symbolized the recent healing of race relations between the Lakota people and their neighbors.
The age old tradition of pen pals has long sparked international friendships, but now it has become an avenue for providing aid to poor families in Brazil, with the added byproduct of lasting friendships.
My dad, now 90, told this story to me many times. It illustrates how our greatest challenges or problems in life can become our best opportunities for unthinkable success. What looks like an obstacle may be the natural step toward greatness.
Check out this series of videos by success coach Robin Sharma. He reminds us what it takes to win and become the successful people we were meant to be.
A group of university students are on a mission to change Japan -- and make hugging more acceptable, inspired by the original Free Hugs campaign in Sydney that rallied strangers together.
Dwayne Lee of Milwaukee proposed a Summer Peace Plan for city residents. His calls for understanding others' shortcomings and challenges, and for getting to know your neighbors, are just as useful to those who don't live in the city.
Jewish teenagers from 37 American communities have been personally inspired by Harold Grinspoon and his teen philanthropy programs to establish personal endowment funds using a portion of their b’nai mitzvah gift money.
A volunteer group called Angels Of Destiny delivers small hand painted ceramic angels to people living with life threatening illnesses such as AIDS/HIV and cancer.
"Israelis try to cushion the effects of their daily stress by taking part in the third annual mass pillow fight. While Israeli forces attack in Gaza and the regional conflict seemed far from an end, residents of the coastal city of Tel Aviv engage in some stress-busting scuffles involving pillows."