When her school cut art supplies from the budget last year, Tae Tae worried that kids who could not afford their own supplies would be left out. She started writing letters to big companies asking for help. She wrote 50 in all, and heard back from 45. Donations flooding in totaling $32,000 and she started her own non-profit.
A 12-year-old philanthropist named Zach Bonner has walked from his home in Florida to the Washington, DC Capitol building, all in the name of homeless kids. Now he is walking across the country, 1900 miles so far, raising money and bringing hope to the homeless along the way.
Despite her own struggles, one teen has stepped up to help revitalize Detroit. She led a group of volunteers to plant and rebuild in an abandoned lot. Eventually they will donate the food grown here.
When 14-year-old Larry Wang heard about the local school district cutting the fourth-grade band program, he knew he had to try to save the music. Fourth grade is the level at which Larry, as a public school student, got his first chance to learn an instrument. "Fourth grade really inspired me, and if you took […]
Ten youth judged as this year's Huggable Heroes were honored today for their volunteer efforts at making the world a better place -- in total, raising funds and collecting items valued at more than $22.5 million. They gathered at the Build-A-Bear Workshop company headquarters in St. Louis, after having volunteered an average of more than 650 hours each month.
More than 10,000 volunteers hosted lemonade stands over the weekend to commemorate the 10th anniversary of a 4-year-old who first raised $2,000 for pediatric cancer while she was being treated for neuroblastoma.
Saddened by what she imagined the oil spill was doing to wildlife near her family's summer home on the Gulf coast, an 11-year-old began creating pictures of birds to raise money for rescue operations, and claims to have raised $60,000 so far.
As a poster boy for perseverance, 18-year-old Eric Duquette, who didn't speak until the age of five, but now is fluent in Spanish, inspired his high school classmates last week when he delivered a stirring commencement speech.
When the Kansas Hate group known at the Westboro Baptist Church announced it would picket a Bay Area School and Jewish Institutions, students at Gunn High School decided they could not sit by quietly. They organized a Love-in.
Alex Griffith, 16, was adopted as a baby from a Krasnoyarsk, Russia, hospital. Now, he's raised more than $60,000 to design and build a playground for the Krasnoyarsk orphans remaining.
16-year-old Mackenzie escapes from severe pain through the reading of books. Her painful disease led her to want to help others kids with their own escape from -- from childhood abuse or health problems. Her charity, Sheltering Books, which has collected and donated 38,000 books for homeless and abused kids since 2007.
spongebob.jpgWhen a high school student started choking, her best friend was inspired to action by a SpongeBob SquarePants episode, where she believes she saw the cartoon character use the Heimlich maneuver.