A 68-year old New Jersey widow was so convinced of a young man's innocence after reading about his murder conviction that she spent 7 years and $60,000 of her own money to see that justice would prevail.
We are rewarded for our charitable donations, with instant gratification and a pat on the back – but what if our good deeds came with understanding instead?
The owner of a construction company installed an elevator in the home of a family whose 9-year-old daughter Sara has cerebral palsy. As a result, Sara can have the independence to go outside and play with her friends without asking for help -- and her family can stay in the house her great-grandfather built in 1932.
As Uganda experiences a lack of PPE in hospitals, two entrepreneurs at Takataka Plastics began making face shields out of recycled plastic.
Family fishermen in Japan took delivery of a very special donation, on the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that wiped out their local fishing industry. An American humanitarian group donated ten new hand-crafted boats to shrimp and seaweed fishermen in Hikado Harbor who have been out of work since the disaster.
A number of companies are offering goods and services free of charge during the COVID-19 pandemic for healthcare, emergency service and essential workers.
Nearly 400,000 Americans are about to get some debt relief on student loans they can't afford to pay back after becoming permanently disabled.
After protests against police brutality, Sanford Middle School in Minnesota collected groceries for families affected by looting-and collected a sea of food.
Do you remember when the aisles of grocery stores were emptied of toilet paper and other staples at the beginning of the pandemic? Nurse Stacy Mason recalls seeing her fellow healthcare workers finishing up long shifts caring for the sick in ICU, only to find the sundries they needed for their families-like diapers and sanitary […]
After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Ruth Johnson found a way to use her extensive real estate experience to give back to those who serve unselfishly in our communities -- not only veterans, but firefighters, police officers, teachers and healthcare workers. For the Homes for Heroes program, she recruited real estate agents, lenders, insurers and home inspectors to provide significant discounts and rebates to our nation's heroes.
An anonymous person just paid off all the layaway items at Canton's Walnart in Mississippi, and the action has led to relief for shoppers.
The successful New York artist has spent $65,000 on art in the pandemic to help other artists stay afloat during COVID-19.
The World Health Organization reported that malaria deaths fell last year to the lowest level ever recorded.
Wineries in Australia rallied to support a fellow vintner whose crop had been destroyed by regional bushfires. Ten thousand dollars in grapes were donated to allow Grampians Estate to bottle a Shiraz that year.
When this man started walking his lawnmower miles around town because his truck broke down, longtime customers found a way to get him back behind the wheel.
After 9/11, Don Forman, a used car dealer in Las Vegas, offered a ride to anyone stranded in airports who needed to get home. For free. By the end of the day, 150 people were back at home in Southern California.
Seattle woman Eva Gordon left her entire $10-million dollar fortune, amassed through clever investing, to 17 state universities upon her death.
Jenny Beck, an attorney who runs a law office in Dunedin, New Zealand, welcomed back each of her 14 employees with $1000 cash to spend on local businesses.
Toronto's Swan Dive bar posted that it was struggling to pay the rent through the pandemic. So customers bought all its stock to help out.
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