How One Interior Designer Is Helping The Homeless With Her One Percent Project
Oregon's One Percent Project has home and housing businesses including a 1% line item on every invoice, funding state homeless charities.
Oregon's One Percent Project has home and housing businesses including a 1% line item on every invoice, funding state homeless charities.
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A woman trapped inside a burning apartment trusted a stranger with her child's life Saturday morning when she dropped the infant from a second-story window and into the sure and steady hands of a man who happened to be there only because he'd been called into work early.
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After doctors couldn't find the cause of a collie's sudden paralysis, an intern found the problem minutes before the dog was scheduled to be put down.
Instead of waiting on the city government to fix their problems, these Portland, Oregon anarchists are taking matters into their own hands.
Islamic groups came together this week to raise money for the three men who intervened when young Muslim women were being harassed.
When his local soup kitchen told him he was too young to volunteer, this fourth-grader started delivering 100 bagged lunches every week to the homeless.
This golden retriever insisted on extra attention from a dying woman, as if to urge her to have one last enjoyable experience.
This woman never knew what happened to her beloved cat after she was forced to put it up for adoption. Years later, she fatefully met the woman who cared for the feline.
The program has already put a huge dent in traffic violations and led to the construction of safer streets.
Every day for the last 20 years, Todd Kirnan has worked for hours to make sure that the people and businesses of Gresham are happy.
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An accidental encounter with a glass-enclosed monument in Wales on vacation leads to tiny Ashland, Oregon installing the 14th eternal World Peace Flame.
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