Doris Buffett is 81 and has the kind of reputation money can buy. She's given away a fortune -- over $80 million -- and wants to keep giving until it's all gone. Her money comes from her mother's investment funds managed by her little brother, Warren Buffet, known as the Oracle of Omaha.
Two men braved a burning car to save a stranger seconds before the car exploded into an inferno because, they said, they couldn't live with themselves if they hadn't acted.
17-year-old Danielle Galloway grew up homeless in Atlanta bouncing from shelter to shelter and attending 10 different schools. But now she is she has graduating in the top 25% of her high school class. And she's won a full scholarship to Boston University.
Wall Street hedge fund manager and billionaire Paul Tudor Jones started the Robin Hood Foundation 25 years ago to inspire wealthy donors to give money to help impoverished New Yorkers. Since then, the charity has raised more than one and a quarter billion dollars.
Now working for NBC, Chelsea Clinton files her first good news report from her home state of Arkansas about a woman in rural Pine Bluff who is making a difference for her community in such a profound way that she's known as a real life miracle worker.
James Slatcher is being hailed a hero, credited with saving more than 100 lives, after a devastating fire tore through a 36-unit townhouse development in Sutton. The 21-year-old was out playing basketball at around 3 a.m. when he noticed the smoke and sprang into action.
As Independence Day nears for Americans, let's reminisce on one Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the "Hero of Gettysburg." During the war between the states, this English professor-turned soldier fought in many key battles and was wounded six times. For his moment in history on Little Round Top, he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
With forests at high risk for fire in northern Ontario last week, a couple who were out for a scenic flight in their small plane became environmental heroes when they spotted a flash fire and risked their lives to save the Boreal forest near their remote cottage west of Sudbury.
Margaret Zerwekh, 90, of Delafield, Wis., has won her 23-year fight to have a Medal of Honor awarded to Lt. Alonzo Cushing, a hero at the Battle of Gettysburg.
After reading about a woman who motivates commuters via chalkboard messages, a Good News Network subscriber wanted to step in to help. She felt compassion for the woman, Penny Proudfoot, who said she had recently ruined her camera. She thought to herself, "I've got a Canon Rebel camera that I was going to sell on e-Bay, but I'd love for her to have it, if she wants it."
The annual No Worries Now Prom is the brainchild of 20-year-old Fred Scarf, with his intention to give 200 teenagers living with a life-threatening illness an opportunity to celebrate at the prom, in an environment of total acceptance and camaraderie.
In the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, President Obama honored the 2010 National Teacher of the Year, Sarah Brown Wessling, from Johnston High School in Iowa, for her efforts to treat every student as a unique learner.
Leslie Clark buys beadwork and embroidery made by the women in a Niger cooperative that she founded. She sells the nomad art alongside her paintings in her Ojai, Calif., gallery. In addition, she founded the Nomad Foundation to help bring health care and education to the wandering Niger nomads.
After jumping out of the airplane, strapped together in tandem, a skydiving instructor and his student feared the worst when their parachutes failed to open properly. Plummeting at 40 mph and 500 feet from the ground, Hartsock showed himself to be a courageous hero when he used the control toggles to rotate their position and place his body under hers to take the brunt of the fall.
On the troubled South Side of Chicago where only 37% of young black men graduate high school, the Urban Prep Academy is an oasis of achievement. The school recently announced its entire senior class of 107 young men had been accepted to four-year colleges.
23 years ago a woman who was real estate agent issued a challenge to a first grade class of underprivileged students in Oakland. Stay in school, do the homework and graduate, and she would pay for their college education.
Despite her cover girl looks, expensive jeans and designer sunglasses, Suzie Krabacher followed her dream to take care of children no one else wanted, building orphanages, schools and clinics in Haiti.
John Finn, the oldest living Medal of Honor recipient, whose modest demeanor and lifestyle belied his legendary status as an American hero, died Thursday at age 100. He was believed to be one of the first Americans to take up arms against the Japanese when they bombed the air base at Pearl Harbor, securing a .50-caliber machine gun mounted on a training stand in an exposed area of the parking ramp, which was under heavy machine-gun fire from Japanese planes, continuing for more than two hours despite being hit 21 times by bomb and bullet fragments.
Narayanan Krishnan was a bright, young, award-winning chef with a five-star hotel group, but the sight of an old man starving changed everything. Now 29, he has served more than 1.2 million meals over the last 2 years -- breakfast, lunch and dinner every day -- to India's homeless and destitute.
Five visionaries between the ages of 18-30 from Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, the Philippines and the U.S. have been selected to receive the Rolex Award for Enterprise in the new Young Laureates Program, for their passion and conviction to overcome challenges in the areas of science and health, applied technology, exploration, the environment and cultural preservation.
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