A tiny farming town in Michigan is rallying around a 16-year-old girl who became humiliated when her high school voted to elevate her to the homecoming court as a joke and then laughed at her in the hallways for having so few friends. In an inspiring turnaround, Whitney Kropp's embarrassment gained her thousands of friends.
A user of the popular website, Reddit, posted that she received a special birthday surprise from her pizza deliveryman after ordering the food online.
Thousands of teens from around the US gathered in Detroit, painting houses, hauling trash and mowing lawns, to help clean up the city's poorest neighborhoods.
The willingness of Germans and Austrians to provide sanctuary and aid appeared to be boundless, as thousands arrived from Syria by bus and train.
A pair of brothers-in-law may have raised more than enough needed to buy a pristine, private beach and open it to the public.
After Jared Hill was instructed by his doctors to wear a surgical mask during his girlfriend's Senior Prom, Emily Jarrell and her pals decided they would all wear the same masks to make him feel more comfortable.
Two 21-yr-olds who created a fleet of mobile laundries, taking washers and driers to the homeless, have been honored as Young Australians of the Year.
This wounded warrior turned his off-road wheelchair into a snowplow, clearing sidewalks and paying it forward to supportive neighbors.
Dozens of volunteers as young as eight helped pack 500 school backpacks for Syrian refugee children arriving in Canada.
A video from New Hampshire's primary day shows the truth– that politically active people (regardless of ideology) have more in common than people think.
They were his neighbors but so much more. Now he has honored their memory by buying their family home and donating it to Habitat for Humanity.
Strangers donated $26,000 to a 50-year-old man who clears tables at a restaurant but even in poverty doesn't take what isn't his.
Players in a German orchestra mingled with crowds on a Cologne plaza recently and one by one joined in to play the well-known tones from a galaxy far, far away.
A Riverside, Calif. fire crew stopped the truck when they saw an elderly homeless man walking without shoes on a road. This is what civil service looks like.
This man bought the only movie theater within 100 miles to keep it open "for the kids". Now the town helps him continue–by buying him a digital projector.
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.
A community has rallied to buy new bulletproof vests in honor of a German shepherd hailed for saving lives in a shootout last week.
A pastor decided to turn a food desert into 50,000 pounds of produce for the poor in his community, teaching his church to raise the crops and pay it forward.
An eco-friendly housing complex for the formerly homeless has opened a fine-dining restaurant that serves food from the community's farm.
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