Creators of a podcast for video gamers were shocked after their illustrator suffered a shoulder injury and her insurance company refused to pay. With her drawing ability in jeopardy, the show's creators humbly asked their viewers for donations and in two days had already collected $64,000 -- more than four times their original goal.
Since 1893, the English charity, Manchester & Cheshire Dogs' Home, has provided shelter and veterinary care, and overseen the adoption of more than one million dogs. Now it's people who are stepping up to rescue the animal shelter, after their kennels in Manchester burned to the ground last evening, as a result of arson, killing 53 dogs.
Hailey is handy with an electric drill, and homeless folks in Bremerton, Washington are glad. The nine-year-old is building them mobile sleeping shelters.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg is the ultimate success story, and he is a generous guy. This is typical of the latest generation of wealthy entrepreneurs. Young donors are more interested in creating partnerships and being actively involved in their giving, unlike older philanthropists, who simply wrote checks every year.
Annette Dove had no idea that an NBC Nightly News segment would cause an avalanche of donations for her Pine Bluff program that feeds and tutors hundreds of Arkansas children after school. It was Chelsea Clinton's debut as a Making A Difference reporter, when she returned to her home state and found this inspiring story.
Mayor Cory Booker has earned about $1 million in public speaking fees over his seven years in office, the majority of which he has given to charity, according to a report on the website of the New York Times.
By early Friday morning, a total of $35 million had already been donated according to the American Red Cross. The public has been generous, a spokesperson said. Agencies have deployed hundreds of troops and tons of supplies, and opened hundreds of shelters.
The Brighton Implant Clinic recently began offering free dental treatment to patients who have exceptional circumstances and are unable to afford treatment. Of the dozens treated, David Bryant who works with blind war veterans, is perhaps the most inspiring. Inundated with stories, the UK dentists agreed that Mr. Bryant's caught their eye.
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A California mosque broke religious barriers today when, for the first time, it allowed a Christian congregation inside to hold Easter services, after it had lost its lease.
Aaron Taylor leaves his life of binge drinking -- get this -- and also leaves his life as a well-paid star in television sportscasting to go for a high that comes from helping others.
Green Bay Packers wide receiver James Jones is on his way to a starring role in the Super Bowl, but his road to success led through homeless shelters from the time he was born until his freshman year in high school. Now he is helping other kids find their roads to success.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Jessica Biel, and Samuel L. Jackson. When enough A-list Hollywood actors come together for a cause, ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox networks will follow. Tomorrow night, at 8:00pm Eastern/Pacific and 7:00 Central, even cable channels will clear their schedules to broadcast a commercial-free one-hour fundraiser produced by the entertainment-industry-favorite, Stand Up to Cancer, co-founded by Katie Couric.
Stars from Hollywood to Virginia are pitching in with money and their time for helping New York and New Jersey recover from Hurricane Sandy. A celebrity auction has even been launched to accept bids on exciting opportunities to rub elbows with the stars.
A business owner realized, It's time to give back, after years of seeing needy people selling their stuff in his jewelry-exchange business. Rankin Paynter was shopping at a Kmart that was closing its doors in Winchester, Kentucky and decided on-the-spot to buy the rest of its contents and give it away to charity.
In a show of seasonal goodwill, coffee drinkers in line at a Winnipeg drive-through paid it forward for 228 customers in a row on Friday, according to the staff at Tim Hortons. One customer started the chain by paying for his own order and the order of the car behind him. The generosity continued for the next three hours.
A shy and reclusive heiress who lived alone for 20 years in a rambling mansion left the bulk of an estate worth $40 million to the Vancouver Foundation. One of the largest charitable bequests in British Columbia history, it will add $700,000 per year to the hundreds of thousands of dollars the community foundation already spends on BC projects focused on youth, the homeless, the elderly and the environment.
An 80-year-old great-grandmother was handed a $50 gift card by an anonymous youth in November, a random act of kindness by a group in Prince Edward Island that has worked quietly for seven years.
When a seven-year-old girl left chemotherapy for a Winnipeg Jets hockey game, she couldn't have known how a whole city was about to rally around her, particularly a generous boy named Keaton.
One day, 500 animals, 14 private planes, 120 rescue organizations, 100's of volunteers, 30,000 air miles, 11 destinations -- and many, many happy tails. December 6 was the big day for Wings of Rescue, the non-profit that is making Christmas dreams come true for hundreds of dogs in high kill shelters, bringing them to live in new fur-ever homes in its 3rd Annual Holiday Airlift.
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