Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte unveiled Monday a new foundation that will help the world's poorest countries gain access to precious clean water, funding the program with (Canadian) $100 million.
Ron Clark, a NY Times best-seller who was featured in a made-for-cable-TV movie, opened a private $3.5-million, state-of-the-art school in one of the poorest sections of Atlanta: "More than 350 students applied to the new Ron Clark Academy where flat-screen TVs are mounted in bathrooms, graffiti art fills the walls.
Across the United States, Americans are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of a French nobleman to whom they still feel indebted, centuries after he helped them win independence
Kim Crespi was honored as a Hero of Forgiveness." She has forgiven her husband for stabbing to death their 5-year-old twin daughters. She visits him in prison every week, where he's received medication for his bi-polar disorder
One of the heroes of the Minnesota bridge collapse has been offered a substantial reward -- full tuition at a technical college, which he had been attending but had to leave because of the cost.
When a loner injured his knee at age 84 and landed in a nursing home, he hated it. He might have died angry -- except for the extraordinary efforts of 4 neighbors and a priest who sprung him.
A Maine letter carrier who pulled an elderly woman in flames from her burning apartment building along his postal route, then alerted other residents to flee, was named this week as National Hero of the Year by the 300,000-member National Association of Letter Carriers.
In an effort to encourage other Australians to be more philanthropic, billionaire Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest has donated shares and options worth $80 million to The Australian Children's Trust.
"Can anyone make a difference at a school that's tiny and shrinking, in a sleepy town north of nowhere? One man in Michigan can, and can, and can, and can."
Billionaire Carlos Slim, a telecom mogul, pledged to donate a million low-cost laptops to Mexican children by the end of 2008, saying, "Education holds the key for Mexico's poor." (AP)
Dr. Kumar Bahuleyan went from extreme poverty to lavish living as a neurosurgeon. Now, completing a full circle, he has returned to his native village, donated his fortune, built a hospital and traded his cars for a bicycle.
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Taggarts Ice Cream Parlor, a local institution in Canton, Ohio, is donating 10% of their gross receipts all day today, Tuesday, August 14th, to Relief International's Zam Zam Clinic in Darfur.
Nearly 60 top college graduates have come to Denver from across America with the 'Teach for America' program as young teachers committed to working in Denver's toughest schools.
Autistic artist Steven Willshire is a "star among savants." In the film Beautiful Minds, A Voyage into the Brain, he is introduced as The Living Camera because he can sketch an entire city in detail after viewing it only once
Sir Tom Hunter, a billionaire businessman has become Britain's most generous philanthropist. "I don't want to take í£1billion to my grave with me," so he's donating it all.
She was kicked out of high school and her father was sent to prison. But by taking his advice, a women's basketball player overcame the odds stacked against her.
Kids who volunteer with Kids Against Hunger help to create and distribute nutrition-packed meals for hungry children all over the world.
Here's some good news about efforts to help the 24 Iraqi orphan boys with special needs who were emaciated when discovered by a National Guard patrol.
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