Thousands of layoff notices have been delivered to teachers nationwide, but one fifth grader has inspired an entire school district to show their appreciation for educators with her unselfish act to try to save the teachers.
In a year when gifts are down for the biggest US charities, three generous donations were featured on the Today show, including a 5-year-old boy who decided to give old toys and forego new ones on his birthday to help the Ronald McDonald House charity.
Volunteers in LA are personally distributing survival kits throughout the year to people living on the streets. One man's life was turned around by the act of kindness and, now employed, the vet is handing out the duffel bags alongside the man who helped him.
The best part of Jeter's 3000th hit is Christian Lopez, the fan who caught the ball and gave it back, modestly saying it was Jeter who earned it.
In the days following 9/11, many Americans probably were unaware that others around the world made extraordinary gestures toward the United States. One of the most touching reactions of all was the story of how a destitute Kenyan boy turned Stanford student rallied his Masai tribe to offer its most precious gift to America in its time of need.
A regional manager at Starbucks in Fredericksburg, Virginia discovered that there were homeless people living in the woods behind the shopping malls, where they stay unnoticed. She decided to help, collecting hotel toiletries, socks, and money, and delivering them, along with other Starbucks employees, to the dozens of people encamped back there.
A wealthy Chinese couple made it their mission to restore the image of one of two sacred Buddhas of Bamiyan statues that towered over Afghanistan for 1500 years.
Oprah Winfrey is donating $12 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture -- the museum's largest donation to date. In recognition, Winfrey's name will be on a 350-seat theater in the museum, which is currently under construction and set to open in 2015.
By the end of this week, twelve families in Guatemala will have a home, a direct result of one man's philanthropic efforts. For the last seven years, Floridian Tim Foley has traveled to work in a small town in Guatemala constructing houses for low-income families. Since 2005, Tim and his team have already built 54 homes. For his selflessness, he won the 2011 Amway Hero Award for Generosity.
After Olguiemar Freyre's bike, her only form of transportation, was stolen while she was working earlier this week, the part-time student penned an angry note and left it at the scene of the crime. A kind Chicago man who saw the note stepped in and offered to help.
By the end of this week, twelve families in Guatemala will have a home, a direct result of one man's philanthropic efforts. For the last seven years, Floridian Tim Foley has traveled to work in a small town in Guatemala constructing houses for low-income families. Since 2005, Tim and his team have already built 54 homes. For his selflessness, he won the 2011 Amway Hero Award for Generosity.
On December 6, a group of 10th-graders from Hashmonaim and Beit Shemesh arrived in New York to help in the ongoing clean-up and fix-up efforts after Hurricane Sandy.
Pushpa Basnet, a Nepalese woman who runs a home for children so they don't have to live behind bars with their incarcerated parents, was named the 2012 CNN Hero of the Year on Sunday night. She was in her twenties when she started a home in Kathmandu where children can receive education, food, medical care and a chance to live a more normal life.
For the past 12 years, the Akshaya Patra Foundation has served cooked food to nearly 1.4 million children in government schools across the India. And now, it has reached an important milestone serving its billionth meal in August.
A mother in Wales has posted an advert on Gumtree offering free home cooked meals every Monday to families living on benefits. Boudicca Stretton-Brown, 27, said she was happy to cook extra while feeding her own family "to offer a little help to those who may need it."
A U.S. ship carrying enough wheat to feed more than one million people for four months was delivered for distribution to the Syrian people. The United Nations World Food Program received the contribution, worth more than $19 million, on April 21 in Beirut, Lebanon. The ship's cargo gave the WFP the ability to add flour to the monthly food basket of more than one million people.
Tony Tolbert, a Harvard-educated lawyer in Los Angeles, decided to move into his mother's home so he could offer his own fully-furnished house to a homeless family of five, and give it to them rent-free for a year.
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In a gesture of repayment for help that it received during the terrible local flooding of 2008, the town of Cedar Rapids, Iowa has sent $50,000 dollars in relief funds to the Czech Republic to rebuild a flood-damaged library.
The Original OKRA Charity Saloon in downtown Houston operates a lot like other taverns. Booze is purchased and poured, bartenders get paid and take home tips. But the owners give all their profits away. Proceeds from OKRA's are donated to a different Houston-based organization each month. With every drink purchased, bar patrons vote on which charity is chosen from among four new nominees each month.
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