Aided by a grant from Chevrolet, a professional photographer is helping homeless children visualize their dreams through the lens of a camera. Pictures of Hope will travel to ten homeless shelters in ten cities this year.
Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his $4.6 million fortune after realizing his riches were making him unhappy. His entire proceeds are going to charities he set up for and Latin America.
Entrepreneurial success stories are the stuff of which American dreams are made. Much like Oprah Winfrey and Steve Jobs, the six self-made millionaires profiled here have one thing in common: Thanks to hard work, determination and sound advice from mentors, friends and family, they've been able to build thriving businesses from the ground up. All have advice for young entrepreneurs.
The overwhelming support shown to block club leader Cheryl Walker Williams, whose home was firebombed by drug dealers deserves the praise of the entire community. Walker Williams is a true hero in the city for helping to organize an East Side block club and standing up to ongoing drug dealer intimidation.
Midlife women are flourishing compared with men. Despite the daily gloom of economic predictions, women in midlife are more optimistic about their lives and futures than men are, finds a Gallup-Healthways daily poll of Americans' well-being. It may be key that the most optimistic women spend about six hours a day in social interaction.
Even the police stepped up to the challenge issued by London, Ontario to perform 1000 acts of kindness as a community this October. With just 2 days left, the third annual kindness challenge, issued by the London Urban Services Organization, has likely broken all city records for good deeds.
In New Zealand, a knitting circle formed for prisoners is churning out hats, slippers and scarves for donation to those in need in their community. The knitting does great things for the men's self worth as well.
Kienan Hebert was returned to his family home at about 3 a.m. last night, nearly five days after the young boy was reported missing. The B.C. boy's safe return comes a day after his father made an emotional plea to whoever had his child.
American Volunteers increased the number of hours they contributed to their communities last year, whether tutoring and mentoring students, fundraising, job training or assisting during natural disasters -- 8.1 billion hours in 2010.
On Sunday, 343 firefighters from across Texas donning their heavy coats and gear gathered in downtown Dallas to honor the lives of New York firefighters who died on 9/11. They climbed 100 flights of stairs at Dallas's Renaissance Tower to commemorate the lives of 343 from the New York Fire Department who died saving others on that day.
Disappointment turned into celebration and happiness after a group of manufacturing plant employees in Ottawa won $7 million in the lottery a day after their company announced massive layoffs.
After flooding ripped apart roads near Killington, Vermont, townspeople and school children have marshaled their resources, taking a quiet half-mile trail over a mountain and in two weeks' time turning it into the I-95 of wooded paths.