After Glen James, a homeless man from Boston, found and returned a backpack with more than $40,000 worth of cash and traveler's checks, a stranger from Virginia launched an online campaign to reward him. An update from NBC News shows Mr. James meeting his benefactor for the first time, after people around the world donated more than $148,000 to the fund.
In saving a life, Pierre Johnson may also have transformed his own. Locked up in a Minnesota prison over the past year for selling cocaine, Johnson was stunned to learn this week that he is among 22 Americans receiving the Carnegie Hero award for risking his life to save a 91-year-old neighbor woman from a burning house in Brooklyn Park.
More than 2,600 people from around the world may have helped prolong the life of a dying Nebraska father by sending photos, notes and postcards all colored with sky-blue pink. His son, a digital brand manager with Red Bull, started an online campaign for people to post sunsets and skies using Twitter or Instagram to help fill his father's room with his favorite scenes.
A heartbreaking story ran in the Tampa Bay Times on October 8 about a brave boy, 15, who stood up in front of a church during Sunday services to ask someone to love him. The orphan had been raised in foster care and lived in a group home for boys. He made the drastic and courageous step because he wanted a loving family so bad. After the story ran, thousands filed requests to ask him to join theirs.
New York YouTube pranksters Adam and Sheikh usually make humorous or taunting videos, such as Meet a Muslim or Pretending to Be a Celebrity. But the duo decided this time to do something different, to make homeless people smile. The guys bought some fruit and water, packed up some gently worn clothing and hit the streets. They did bring smiles to these very worn faces and it is terrific to watch.
Nurse Eileen Remedios was heartbroken when her beloved bicycle was stolen while locked outside near the street. She left a humorous note attached to the same lamppost begging for its safe return. She wrote, Please return my bike, which she loved for it will be frightened without its owner. The 55-year-old from Brighton got a big surprise in return.
An inspiring new television ad from the Guinness brewery has been viewed by more than 7 million people across YouTube along with the caption: Dedication. Loyalty. Friendship. The choices we make reveal the true nature of our character.
Many organizations are already trying to find ways to help thousands of Coloradans affected by this past week's deadly flooding — by setting up relief funds, coordinating volunteers and dispersing supplies. Here are a couple good ways to donate money and help on the ground.
The Glen James fund, set up for the homeless man who returned a backpack with $42,000 inside, has collected more than double that in donations. The Virginia man who started the campaign calls it amazing and a statement to everyone in America. As of this morning, more than 4,000 people have given money to support a better, healthier life for Mr. James, who found the backpack Saturday but immediately turned it over to police
Two video pranksters, Andrew Hales and Stuart Edge, teamed up to bring happiness to three deserving coffee shop servers in Orem, Utah. After asking them to name the biggest tip they ever got, they trumped it by leaving $200, and then hid outside in the bushes to record their surprised reactions through the window
After their 8-year-old special needs child started getting loud and banging the table, a family in Rowan County, North Carolina got dinner paid for by an unexpected stranger who also sent an inspiring note to their table Friday.
On Monday, the news on channel 2 in Houston featured a story about a former Marine whose car was senselessly vandalized, and now a viewer has stepped up to help.
A Minnesota teen's act of kindness for a blind customer has prompted an outpouring of praise, including from billionaire Warren Buffett, who has invited the teen to his company shareholder's meeting next year.
Atop every overpass for 500 miles Sean Misner, one of the 19 firefighters killed in Arizona, was paid a moving tribute as his wife drove by with his ashes on her way home to Santa Ynez Valley, California. Local firefighters stood atop trucks saluting their fallen brother.
For the second time in Alberta this week, a man has walked into Tim Hortons and slapped down cash for the equivalent of 500 large coffees for other customers. The mystery donor gave the store almost $900 to hand out free coffees to those behind him in line.
A woman in Queens discovered the honesty of blue-collar workers from a recycling center this week after she accidentally left $5,000 in an old refrigerator her husband dropped off there.
After the attacks of Sept. 11, Kerri Martin decided to change her life, leaving the corporate world to open a bike shop. Now, through her store Second Life Bikes, she's giving neighborhood kids the opportunity to learn the value of hard work by helping them to fix and earn their own bikes.
A gesture by a customer at Heav'nly Donuts in Amesbury, Massachusetts triggered a chain reaction on Saturday that led to a lot of smiles. The staff began counting at around the seventh car as the driver paid for the order of the customer behind them, after getting theirs free.
A decade after Julie Caldwell had the initial inspiration to build a peace park in Elko, Nevada, the community is spinning the park's final installation, a hand-crafted 3000 pound Universal Peace Wheel, which is filled with thousands of hand-written notes and printed mantras collected by volunteers, and sent in, from people wishing for peace.
Donations have poured in from around the world to help the three women found a month ago, held captive for a decade in a Cleveland house. The Cleveland Courage Fund, a tax-free trust, was set up to collect the donations and, so far, $825,000 has come from across the country, overseas, and from Cleveland area businesses and community groups.
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