In three years, Rachel Wheeler raised more than $250,000, which helped build brand new earthquake-proof homes that have given shelter to 27 families that were still living in tent cities after Haiti's earthquake.
After Ted Williams, the homeless man who shot to fame this week on the wings of his golden voice, taped the Today show yesterday, he completed one of his first voiceover sessions for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. His first commercial was released on YouTube today.
After watching the devastation of neighborhoods after Hurricane Katrina, Barnes and Noble CEO Leonard Riggio promised to give away new homes to 100 displaced families. At the dedication of the final home, a gospel choir sang Ain't No Mountain High Enough while 55-year-old Corliss Gaines' eyes swelled with tears.
A fund has been created and a guardian angel stepped forward for a 101-year-old Detroit woman displaced from her home by eviction. A longtime member of her church took in the wheelchair-bound woman and a contractor volunteered to build the wheelchair ramp needed at her new residence.
At a laundromat in Huntington Beach, Calif., an Episcopal group is giving poor people the chance to do their wash for free. As they file in, volunteers direct them to the commercial laundry machines and free detergent.
Officers at a San Francisco police station Friday thanked a homeless man who came to the aid of a colleague who was attacked when she tried to make an arrest. After four days of looking for Ryan Raso, San Francisco police finally found him. The 35-year-old was a wanted man; not as a suspect, but as a hero.
A towing company near Winston-Salem, North Carolina is servicing a lot of people now that the cold weather is stranding motorists whose car batteries have died. But one of their employees at All Over Towing, Daniel Sadler, started thinking about people who had no homes or vehicles and who would be outdoors in the freezing temperatures.
A man dressed as comic hero Spider-Man has begun walking the streets of Birmingham, England handing out sandwiches to the homeless.
A homeless man in State College, Pennsylvania returned a wallet with $350 cash to a woman who is a single mother battling brain cancer.
When this 5-year-old saw a homeless man outside an Alabama restaurant he implored his mom to buy him a meal–then brought everyone to tears by singing grace.
It all started with one good deed that led to an even bigger one, which resulted in a life-changing one, all in the name of helping homeless people with pets, who aren't allowed in shelters because of their animal companions. Break.com, an online site that showcases funny videos, planned to surprise the Louisville pet hero […]
What is human nature? Are we basically good, evil, or a little of both? Philosophers debated this throughout the ages, but science today delivers some definitive news. Humans are naturally altruistic. In Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, a window has been opened into human behavior. Experiments involving prelinguistic and just post-linguistic childre