Hawking a monthly newspaper written by Nashville's homeless and formerly homeless may seem to offer an unlikely path to stability, but for Jerry Andreasen, and his wife, Karren, both 65, selling copies of The Contributor at $1 a copy has helped them move from a tent by the river to renting a $100-a-week room in a North Nashville house. A carpenter and handyman, Jerry Andreasen had lost everything after he had a heart attack.
A dozen do-gooders get together on Valencia Street in San Francisco once a month, laden with peanut butter, jelly, bread and sandwich bags. They make the sandwiches and immediately pass them out to homeless people.
An army of 4,600 college freshman dressed in blue tee shirts boarded 101 buses on their first day at UCLA, fanning out across Los Angeles to 26 worksites for the biggest, one-day volunteer campaign any school has ever mustered.
There's no need to lock your doors on the southern shore of Lake Erie in the tiny town of Lakeside, Ohio. Unlike almost every other place in America, people still actually trust one another. Money is exchanged on the honor system in most of the town's stores, and bikes are rented without any credit cards or licenses.
Disaster was imminent: The bride was due to arrive at any moment and the pianist called to say he wouldn't arrive in time. Fearing his fiance would have to walk down the aisle in silence, the frantic groom ran into the concert hall adjacent to the wedding venue – with stupendous results. His luck led […]
A couple of college students, called The Compliment Guys, from Perdue University who began offering an emotional boost to passersby on campus every Wednesday are now traveling under sponsorship from Kodak to bring smiles to people in ten cities.
Imagine a child who watches a friend receiving a pile of presents from his parents, but then remembers that his own family is too poor to buy gifts when his birthday arrives. Economic woes have devastated so many people, and as the rate of poverty rises, so does the number of kids who go without […]
British phone and broadband provider, Talk Talk, has hired a team of 20 ex-pickpockets to put money into Londoners pockets on the sly. They call it Put-Pocketing, the act of secretly putting money into someone's pocket without them noticing.
Taxi driver Thomas Chappell has a favorite new passenger. After driving the Arizona woman to regular dialysis appointments, he suddenly shocked her with his offer to donate a kidney. But even more shocking to her, doctors said they couldn't have been better matched unless they were siblings
South Africa's anti-apartheid hero, Nelson Mandela, spent 67 years making the world a better place, sometimes with nothing more than a prison uniform and his own two hands. Now a day has been set aside for inspiring the rest of the world to "Make an Imprint", creating a new humanity using their own two hands.
his Afghanistan girls' school successfully prepares students for University but without any roof, walls, library, or many books... until now. Thanks to an American charity, A Little Help, this school in Badakhshan province now has an entire library from grades one through twelve, lab equipment to help teach Biology, Chemistry and Physics, and several huge tents to keep the students out of the rain and hot sun.
Project 100 in Detroit is randomly distributing $100 dollars to 100 people over 100 days. Believing that even the smallest act of kindness can bring significant change, the founders of Project 100 want to make a positive impact by sparking a renewed sense of hope in the community.