A math and science whiz kid is now devoting his life to the tutoring of people around the world using YouTube videos. His Khan Academy now has 1000+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic to chemistry, biology and high finance.
Give yourself a treat at Ben & Jerry's today for $1.00, when you bring a non-perishable food item as a gift for the local food bank.
By-standers become by-dancers in this ingenius T-Mobile commerical filmed in January in the London Street Station.
Changing the landscape of modern philanthropy, the first annual Twestival, organized on the social network Twitter, captured the imagination and donations of 10,000 Twitterers in 200 cities worldwide to collect more than a quarter of million dollars for clean-water efforts in Africa and India.
Ron Borowski rode his Harley 65 miles to give a dying Florida grandmother a ride she will never forget. Sitting on the back of a motorcycle had been her most fond memory for over 50 years. Now, thanks to her daughter and the ad she posted on CragsList, June Pearce got to ride again in her waning days on her 84th birthday.
A California woman who had never visited the website before arrived in search of a volunteer opportunity and found a message that read, "Please Help us, My Dad Needs a Kidney!" Three daughters posted in the volunteer section of CraigsList, the online classifieds site that offers everything from cars to real estate, piano lessons and pet services.
Astonishing pictures from the World Wildlife Fund capture the moment that a terrified mother caught a rope thrown to her by humans and swam across a flooded river to bring her baby to safety. Villagers had reported that the mother and her baby were stranded in a tree when a river flooded on the north east tip of the island.
The small, red Bible used to swear in Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama will go on rare public display to mark the 200th anniversary of the 16th president's birth. The collection will debut at the Library of Congress and includes a first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation and a hand-written Gettysburg Address.
A love story between two badly burned koalas rescued from Australia's deadliest bushfires has provided some heart-warming relief after days of devastation and the loss of over 180 lives
The goal of yoga is to achieve inner peace and one yoga class is lifted to higher levels because beluga whales preside over the group as a backdrop.
A prison project in Houston is helping to turn criminals into legitimate businessmen.
Thanks to some MIT students, many people living without electricity in developing countries may benefit from a new human-powered washing machine that could save them precious time and hard labor.
More than 106 million of the world's poorest families received a microloan in 2007, surpassing a goal set ten years earlier, according to a report released last month by the Microcredit Summit Campaign. Microloans are used to help people living in extreme poverty start or expand a range of tiny businesses such as husking rice, selling tortillas, and delivering cell phone services to remote villages.
What started as an online hoax culminated on Christmas day with dozens of people banding together to help those in need, in what's now being called "Miracle at Wabash and Union."
These are the top news stories from last year that really tugged at the heartstrings. They were some of the most popular stories of 2008 according to readers of the Good News Network. Grab a box of tissues, and enjoy the 10 Most Inspiring Stories of the year...
An American pilot from the first all-black flying unit, the Tuskegee Airmen from World War II, will attend Barack Obama's inauguration as an honored guest. All 330 surviving members of the the Tuskegee Airmen have been invited to the Inauguration Day swearing-in ceremony.
After finding a bone marrow donor in New Hampshire that saved a baby named Giovanni, his parents have continued the drive to boost donor numbers to save the others on the fateful waiting list, like one beloved teacher in a local school, Brian Beeler.
The passengers of Flight 1549 were soaked and freezing, but they were also alive. "We had a miracle on 34th Street. I believe now we have had a miracle on the Hudson," Gov. David Paterson said. T
34 year-old Jessica Keenan has level 4 breast cancer and was struggling to balance her finances due to the costs involved with battling the disease.Her dreams of getting married have been granted by The Dream Foundation and a vast number of donators who have joined the cause.
The pilot who safely landed a US Airways jetliner in the Hudson River was given a hero's homecoming in the San Francisco suburb he calls home.
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