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Excellence off the field scores three NFL players nominations to be Walter Payton Man of the Year.
A group of Florida girls are warming hearts – and the homeless – by tying cozy clothing around lamp posts for the poor to find during a Southern cold snap.
Proving there are no small parts, one of Alan Rickman's final roles was narrating a video of a tortoise eating a strawberry, to save refugees' lives.
People magazine's "Sexiest Doctor Alive" is raffling off a date in New York City (plus hotel and airfare) to raise money for his favorite youth charity.
Star Wars director George Lucas will donate the $4.05 Billion he will receive from the sale of Lucasfilm Ltd. to Disney to a foundation focused on education.
Lucasfilm is teaming up with a celebrity campaign, Stand Up To Cancer, to raise money for cancer research during its launch of the new Blu-ray release of Star Wars: The Complete Saga. New Blast Cancer Star Wars t-shirts are raising funds along with eBay auction items from the iconic movie set.
What started out as one woman knitting a Disney princess wig for her little friend fighting cancer has grown as big as a country music hair-do, but with a lot more love.
Prison inmates with plenty of time, are doing really good work for a thousand children every year.
The drought-induced famine crisis in Somalia has eased somewhat, United Nations officials said on Friday, with the number of people facing imminent starvation dropping to nearly 250,000 from 750,000 because of rainfall and increased aid deliveries.
It was a dark day when we lost rock visionary David Bowie, but record stores in NYC and London are making sure that some good will come of his death.
The Calgary Hitmen asked people to throw stuffed animals on the ice for needy kids and collected 9,500 more toys than there were fans in the arena.
This company made it onto Santa's nice list this year when they found it in their hearts – and pockets – to help out the people of San Diego.
Christmas miracles come in all sizes and shapes, but for this Australian family, it showed up in baskets of gifts & food from strangers in their community.
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Actor Sacha Baron Cohen and actress wife Isla Fisher have given a million dollar Christmas gift to children who have nothing.
Six tiny houses are the first of a planned village to give shelter to the homeless in Tennessee.
One of the greatest tennis players in history has spent his millions to feed and educate a quarter million children in new preschools throughout Africa.
A poet is using her half-million dollar MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" to give exhausted unpaid caregivers week-long vacations.
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