For the past month, the Charlotte Observer has run a series of stories on particular struggling families who signed up to get toys from the Salvation Army's annual Christmas program. And dozens of readers responded to the stories with offers of cash, toys, furniture and groceries.
Remember the Virginia homelessman who only wanted a family for Thanksgiving? The kindness he received from all over the country spurred him to want to help hundreds of other homeless guys in Norfolk.
A sanitation worker in Colorado returned a Christmas present to a family who accidentally threw it out. And they rewarded his honesty in a way that really touched his life.
A desperate woman was surprised when neighbors she'd never met showed up at her door bringing bags of groceries. It all started with a cryptic note left in several mailboxes around the neighborhood.
California YouTuber Daniel Fernandez surprised a hard working clerk at a store, giving her $500 just for being cheerful and enthusiastic toward everyone she meets every day.
Video from China shows the goodness of strangers as 20 people rush to the aid of a woman run over by a car following a motorbike crash.
The Bobby Bones Show, a nationally-syndicated radio morning show, has sparked a movement that reminds people to be joyful in honor of a co-host's mother, who recently died of cancer.
A businessman has returned to the village where he was born in southern China to repay the kindness of residents who, like him, grew up in poverty there. Having made a fortune in construction and steel industries, 54-year-old Xiong Shuihua spent more than six million dollars to transform the wooden huts into luxury homes and villas for 90 families.
When a Pak'nSave checkout operator Rebecca Mclean, 18, helped an elderly customer pay for her groceries last week she did not intend to tell anyone. However, Northern Advocate editor Craig Cooper witnessed Ms Mclean's generosity, and wrote an editorial about it.
After responding to a call on September 20 to assist an elderly resident who had fallen in her yard, a crew from City of Santa Barbara Fire Department had an idea of how to prevent future tumbles. The Mesa, California woman tripped on the the overgrown shrubs lining the walkway, so Engine #6 returned a few days later to do some yardwork.
When Detective Ryan Salmon happened upon the scene of an accident in Takoma, Washington, he found a service dog next to a wheelchair-bound girl lying injured after being hit by a car that fled. The incredible thing he did later that day places him in the top tier of officers who "Protect and Serve."
Las Vegas magician Rob Anderson posted a YouTube video showing him ripping up a sign held by a homeless man who only wants to make people smile. Out of the torn pieces of the sign, he made it "rain" money. So many viewers on YouTube were impressed by the homeless veteran's courteous demeanor that a fundraising page was set up and has raised $38,000 to get him back an apartment.
The lesson at Indiana Wesleyan University's chapel service attended by its 3,000 residential students last week perhaps made an impact like no other, when the speaker ordered two pizzas delivered in order to show how it feels to appreciate someone.
Do you believe in fate? Famed surfing dog Richochet rode the waves with two teen boys who were destined to meet. Both have the same name, the same age, the same heart condition and both families wrote to Surf Dog within a day of each other asking for help.
James Murphy never gave up hope believing he'd find the high school class ring he lost in 1972. Friday, a Chicago man operating a metal detector found the gold ring in the same yard where it originally slipped off Murphy's finger, after the new owner allowed a search of the property.
Every single day of the school year, gang members in New Zealand deliver hundreds of handmade sandwiches to schools in Waikato, making sure no children go hungry like they did when they were young. Offers to help support the project have left tattooed gang members speechless.
As negative political advertising blankets American media with just a few days before Election Day, two men in Hawaii running for the same office have formed a friendship as one of them faced a difficult illness during the campaign.
YouTube channel OckTV decided to see what would happen if they asked random people outside a pizza place to share a slice. As expected, many people didn't want to give up their pizza, but one homeless man generously shared a slice, after he'd just received a hand-out.
Nathan King has biked to work at Culver's restaurant for ten years, rain or shine, but last Thursday he had to walk home after finding his bike lock snipped outside the business. The theft left him upset and sad, but on Saturday he got a surprise gift delivered to his workplace.
Neighbors are helping neighbors in the riot-weary town of Ferguson. An unidentified man delivered encouraging words last week along with envelopes of cash to businesses cleaning up after the Missouri neighborhood protests left shops vandalized.
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