Strangers' Kindness Flipped 20-yo Homeless Guy's Life in 5 Days
The kindness of strangers lifted a young Englishman off the streets and into a new home and job in a matter of days.
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College Student's Device Can Turn Polluted Air into Printer Ink
This device doesn't just suck soot out of the air-it repurposes the stuff as printer toner.
College Kid Is Running A Highly Rated NYC Restaurant in His Dorm Room
A Columbia University senior has created one of New York's hottest restaurants– from his dormitory.
Backpacker Uses Life Savings to Fund Home For Orphans She Met in Nepal
A teenage backpacker hiking through Nepal asked her parents to send her savings of $5000 so she could create a home and school for hundreds of needy children.
The "World's Best Teacher" Gives Kids Choices-Instead of Tests
Nancie Atwell won a million dollars, the first "Global Teacher Prize," and she's investing the money in her unique school where kids follow their passion.
Doctor Brings Caring on Campus With Mobile Medical Van for Homeless Teens
This doctor delivers health care to poor and homeless teens who may otherwise never see the inside of a doctor's office.
Improvisation Boosts Reading in Poor Inner City School
Rachel Farmer is a fourth-grade teacher in Brooklyn who defies the stereotype of inner-city school life. Instead of burned out, Rachel is lit up, and so are her students.
Courtroom Judge's Caring Speech Brings Trouble Teens to Tears (SEE IT)
A judge's brutally honest speech brought tears to the eyes of young people in her courtroom forced to face choices for how to live their lives.
Young Grad Leaves Wall Street to Rescue Food For Those in Need
This 24-year-old hero left his job at J.P. Morgan to start a nonprofit that has saved 100,000 pounds of good food for delivery to homeless shelters in NYC.
Man Shares Exact Replica of Batmobile and Bat-cave With Sick Children
Charles Keller of Phoenix, Ariz., is such a massive fan of the 1960s Batman TV show, that he has an exact working replica of the Batmobile and the Bat-cave. Best of all, he turned his hobby into an opportunity to help kids with cancer.
She Planned 22 Acts of Kindness For Her 22nd Birthday; What's on Her List?
She's a nursing major in college so we already knew she wanted to help people, but Hillary Sadlon poured on the kindness for others even on a day when she could have been pampering herself. After seeing someone post online about how they did it, the Seton University senior spent months planning how she could be kind, generous and thoughtful on her upcoming birthday and made a giant list called, Hillary's 22 Random Acts of Kindness for Her 22nd Birthday."
Youth's Quick-Thinking Saves Woman From Suicide Attempt
Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Thank goodness this University Of Minnesota freshman came along.
Harvard Tells College Applicants: Focus on Kindness, Not Overachieving
At least 85 major U.S. colleges join a plan to emphasize community and family life above testing and personal achievement for admission.
Spreading the Message of Nonviolence to Inner City Kids: A CNN Hero
After Lisa Fitzpatrick found her street blocked by police tape when someone her daughter knew had been killed, she knew she had to do something. She quit her job, downsized her life and created the APEX Youth Center (Always Pursuing Excellence). Since 2010, more than 460 children and youth have come for the free pizza and fun, and in the process learned conflict resolution skills.
Former State Trooper Teaches Life Lessons Through Chess
Chess is not easy, but almost anyone can benefit from the complex game because it teaches strategy, confidence, and also how to accept failure. So says Orrin Hudson, a 50-year-old Stone Mountain chess champion who has devoted his life -- and life savings -- to teaching the ancient game to modern kids to instill in them a never-say-die attitude.
Join Wall Street. Save the World.
While some of his peers have shunned Wall Street as the land of the morally bankrupt, Jason Trigg's moral code steered him there. He is after money — as much as he can earn, so he can give half of it away.
First-Ever Disabled Miss USA Contestant Inspires Young Girls
When Abbey Curran first saw a flyer for a local beauty pageant, she was 16 and walked with a pronounced limp due to cerebral palsy. Despite classmates who dismissed her chances of winning, she was determined to compete. In 2008, Abbey was crowned Miss Iowa and became the first disabled person ever to compete for the title of Miss USA.
Quest for Good Pick-Up Line Leads Man to Save Abducted Kids
Conor Grennan reunited Anish's parents with their missing son, whom they had mourned every day for four years. 350 such families would be surprised at how Conor got into the business of saving kids with Next Generation Nepal.
Teacher Helps Injured Embarrassed Student Fit In
Six-year-old Brantley Rogers severely injured his eye last week and was nervous about returning to class with an eye patch. But his Jacksonville, Florida kindergarten teacher made a world of difference for him when she crafted eye patches for all the students in the class.
'Brilliant Bus' Mobile Classroom Gains Support for Retired Teacher's Effort
A retired teacher, who has poured her $900,000 retirement nest egg into a technology classroom on wheels for underprivileged children, has gained an outpouring of national support, after her story aired last week on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.
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