Hundreds of New Zealanders turned out to support a market day in Lyttelton, organized by residents to help a community in need. Free massages, food and chocolate, coffee and music were all offered to local residents in an effort to draw an already tight-knit community closer together.
What started out as a memorial for a little boy has become a gift for a community in need of smiles. Hundreds came out to help hang ceramic wind chimes around the city as gifts for citizens to find and take home.
A wave of anonymous donations in the name of a 1960s comic superhero, a character who began an orphan, is spreading across Japan, benefiting homes for underprivileged children and other charities.
Today the First Family honored Dr. Martin Luther King with a visit to Stuart Hobson Middle School, where they took part in a mentoring project organized by Greater DC Cares' Mentoring Matters Initiative. In this photo, the President paints pictures of fruit in the cafeteria. He said a few quick words...
This week, a new rule went into effect for hospitals across the nation to ease the longtime burden on unmarried or gay partners who, until now, could be prohibited from visiting loved ones who may lie sick and dying without a hand to hold. The rule ensures that hospitals choosing to participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs must respect the rights of patients to designate visitors.
Amid a downturn in her own career in advertising, a Los Angeles photographer decided to come up with a project that would document the stories of people whose lives have been changed for the better by the recession.
Since last Saturday's shooting, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Arizona office has become a mecca for mourners and well-wishers, and today there was a welcome surprise as Pam Simon — one of the staffers injured in the shooting — returned to the office for the first time.
50 years ago today, as the youngest president in history took the stage and the oath of office, John F. Kennedy declared that he was passing the torch to a new generation. It would become one of the most famous speeches in American history, a speech that would change the lives of many young Americans. Hear their stories on NPR...
Panera Bread will open its third nonprofit restaurant Monday in Portland where customers can pay what they want for food. Panera opened community cafes last year in Clayton, Mo., and Dearborn, Mich., owned and operated by a nonprofit arm of the national restaurant chain. So far, customers have stepped up in a spirit of generosity.
University graduate Caleb Barclay is on a mission to break cultural stereotypes throughout the world and cast a positive light on misinterpreted cultures.
Native-American Alaskans hosted a traditional potlatch on Tuesday for about 400 soldiers and officers getting ready to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan. Donations of moose meat and fish came from throughout the area. Although food was a highlight, the troops also enjoyed traditional songs and dances.
Last August, Renee Varela's 18-year-old son was killed by a drunk driver and she donated his heart to a father who needed a transplant. Recently Varela held a stethoscope to his chest and heard her son's heart beating. Tragedy brought the two families together -- an extended family now bound by an act of grace.
An L.A. attorney who, for years, was experiencing a lot of bad luck in his life heard an inner voice telling him to start writing Thank You notes. John Kralik wrote a thank-you card every day for an entire year -- and it changed his life.
A South Carolina retiree is doing his part to help California close its massive budget deficit. More than four decades after Dennis Ferguson received unemployment benefits from the state, he wrote a $10,000 check to the treasury to pay back the money, plus interest.
2010 was a year of disasters -- Haitian earthquake, Gulf oil spill and Pakistani flooding -- yet it was also a year of stunning generosity, technological prowess, and compassion. These are our top ten picks to highlight the seriously good news that deserves pondering as we move into 2011
We've seen a lot of media stories featuring the wonders of Facebook. But these amazing outcomes will cheer even the surliest of social media critics. From the past year, the Good News Network chooses these six tales as the most inspiring.
After a spate of recent muggings and robberies, a group of 20 Bedford-Stuyvesant men started escorting people home as they got off the train and are walking through the neighborhood reaching out to young men. They also sponsored a neighborhood outreach walk earlier this month, stopping to talk to young men hanging out on the corners.
The same TV news helicopter pilot who four years ago pushed a deer on an icy pond to safety using the wind from his rotors, has once again made national news saving a trapped calf -- pushing with the same big wind gust, after the animal lost all footing and was stuck on the ice.
I don't know if my time spent with Gus did any good. If he stopped stealing and lying, but I know he will think back to these days and remember them. I did not 'have' to do what I was doing but I'm sure glad that I did. The ripple effect could go far on this one.
Karma came back around for this philanthropic traveling mother when a baggage handler made sure she got on her flight home just in the nick of time.
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