With 40 pounds of excess fresh produce that he didn't want to waste, one home gardener brought it to the local food pantry and homeless shelter. Realizing how valuable it was to the pantry he set up a website to help divert more fresh food for those who needed it.
With every machete whack and every soggy step, Ed Stafford gets a little closer to joining the ranks of the explorer elite, becoming the first person to walk the length of the Amazon River - all 4,000 miles -- and be officially recognized for doing so.
April 30 marked a momentous day in the history of Room To Read, a charity that builds children's libraries around the developing world. On that day in Nepal 1,000 villagers lined up to celebrate the opening of the group's 10,000th library.
Two good Samaritans driving by on a freeway stopped to help save a group of children from a school bus after seeing smoke rising from the engine. Moments after they had lifted everyone out, the entire bus was engulfed by fire.
Until a few months ago, he was a butler in one of the more expensive residential buildings in Manhattan. But now, Nepal-born Indra Tamang is the owner of two multi-million dollar apartments in the historic Dakota Building.
To help ease a growing hunger problem in the U.S., Wal-Mart announced yesterday that it will donate $2 billion in food and grants to food banks and hunger relief organizations.
Two jail inmates on a work crew in Oregon helped to save the life of a deputy who collapsed. Instead of making a run for it, inmates Robert Parker and Michael Smith used the cell phone of the stranded motorist's cell phone to call 911.
Thousands of salons, groomers and wool farmers are sweeping up their floors to mail their hair, fur and wool clippings to help contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The fibers are being stuffed into nylon stockings and covered in mesh to make highly effective "hair booms" to protect beaches and coastal waters threatened by floating oil, all thanks to a non-profit organization called Matter Of Trust.
Three times in Anne Frank's widely read diary, the young Holocaust victim wrote about a tree. She could see it from the attic window of the secret annex where her family hid for two years. Though the tree is dying, its chestnuts have been used to make new saplings that will be shipped around the world to like-minded groups and museums.
After his ninth heart surgery, 70-year-old Andy Mackie's doctors had him on 15 different medicines. But the side effects made life miserable. So one day he quit taking all 15 and decided to spend his final days doing something he always wanted to do. He used the money he would have spent on the prescriptions […]
15 Years after the attack on a federal building, children are benefiting from the outpouring of donations from people who wanted to help the victims' families. More than 200 children had parents killed or disabled in the truck bombing and two-thirds have since gone on to college or other education programs, thanks to the Oklahoma City Community Foundation fund.
An A-list of athletes, politicians, celebrities and corporations have again joined together to create auction items that offer an instant dream-come-true for bidders on the annual RFK Center spring auction, in its final day today.