Code for America is a new kind of public service. The 'Peace Corps for geeks' has developed apps that have trimmed Boston's costs for digging out fire hydrants after a snow and have made Philadelphia city services more accessible.
Jim Cotter was so sad after losing his wife last year that he needed to find something to do. He decided to spruce up his community -- by painting everything in sight. Well, the idea has really caught on. The once-thriving coal community of Glouster, Ohio had been peeling - and unappealing - for years. Now it glistens, every fence, building and guardrail.
Born premature, Erin Baur (pictured, left) has learning, hearing and speech disabilities. She also has a passion for dogs. The Ohio middle schooler learned that Chief Powalie of Painesville Police Department would like a new K9 because his current K9 will be retiring soon, so she set out to raise $11,000 and rally a community.
While in Peru on a volunteer mission to improve an animal rescue reserve deep in the jungle, Trevor King found some unlikely friends in the mischievous monkey residents occupying the little piece of heaven.
Across Detroit, organizers said nearly 1,000 Jewish volunteers did good deeds on Thursday's Mitzvah Day — an annual rite of community service on Dec. 25, when Christians typically want to be home celebrating Christmas, rather than doling servings at a soup kitchen. Increasingly for the last six Christmases, Muslims have joined the horde of Jewish volunteers
Many homebound elderly people are deprived of the simple joys of puppy love, but this heartbreaking fact is about to change for some American seniors, thanks to Caregiver Canines.
After living through Hurricane Katrina six years ago, New Orleans firefighters recalled the help provided by New York City Firefighters, who arrived on the seen within days of the Louisiana levees breaking. Now they are repaying the favor, clearing out tons of debris in homes of firefighters whose Breezy Point homes were flooded.
The Duchess of Cambridge has chosen the good causes that will benefit from her publicity and volunteer work. Kate Middleton did the research herself and chose to support 5 groups through volunteering and becoming a patron.
Three remaining pilot whales from a pod of 23 stranded off the lower Florida keys have fought to stay alive with volunteers pouring in to help care for the group.
In place of a holiday party, computer technology company NVIDIA conducted one of Silicon Valley's largest-ever employee volunteer events, with 1,500 employees and family members building structures that transformed a local community farm, donating services and materials totaling $380,000.
Eboni Stevenson, a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School in Denver, won an award recently for devoting more than 3,000 hours of her time to volunteer work - a new record.
Elvis Summers, who built a tiny mobile shelter for a homeless woman, is using the $80K he raised to host a marathon shelter-building event in L.A. this July.
Do you hear people complaining about a tuned-out, apathetic younger generation? Here's a news flash: Today's young Americans are more serious about giving back than their parents were.
The group Friends For Life cares for elderly people who are living alone or in nursing homes without visitors, because everyone should have someone who cares.
This grandmother volunteers at the local animal shelter reading to dogs that-like her- miss their buddies.
In 2004, the number of loggerhead sea turtle nests on this prime nesting ground, plunged to 358, the fewest on record. What a difference a decade makes.
NASA worker Bruce Jackson went to work Wednesday morning despite the government shutdown. Instead of going into Washington, the York County resident joined a half dozen furloughed federal workers who hung ceiling tiles and installed insulation in a Presbyterian Church classroom.
The program was teaching disabled children how to ride bicycles. A local public school was holding the camp on their facilities.
Three hundred volunteers spent a Tuesday building a new playground for kids living in a shelter because "play is essential for children."
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