With so much darkness in the news lately, it's amazing how one simple idea could bring so much light to so many lives. That's what happened last weekend, when over 100 people came together to make a dream reality for their blind friend. For the legally-blind teen, her dream was to drive a car just once.Read More
As the world's fastest animals, the big cats can run up to 65 mph and need to get up to speed to burn off metabolic compounds. But the two who live at the Houston Zoo don't have much opportunity to do that. Until now. In early November, an entourage of 10 people took a pair of 5-year-old cheetah brothers to the Sam Houston Race Park.
A suicide-prevention group is generating smiles to the faces of commuters and pedestrians in Boston with their Happier Boston Campaign, which involves social interventions such as singing in elevators and asking everyone in the baseball stadium to give high-fives to everyone nearby.
A flashmob brought Smiles returning to the faces of crowds in an employment office in Madrid, Spain. Musicians planted themselves among the jobless, hiding their instruments, until one lone oboe began to play the opening notes to Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles. Little darling, it's been a long, cold, lonely winter.
In the past five years, the financial industry has taken a drubbing with plunging profits, allegations of improper behavior, and customer backlash against rising fees. But various sources list one bank as a best place to work, and its practices may provide a blueprint to other companies on how to keep workers engaged even during tough times. Umpqua Bank is known as the world's best bank.
Ellen was excited to surprise two of her favorite teachers with a huge gift from Skype. They teach in a Title 1 school, which means more than 50% of students qualify for free lunches. The kids and their classrooms don't have enough money for supplies and other basic needs, so teachers often end up paying out of their own pocket.
Every year around this time, a new edition of the "100 Best Companies To Work For" is released. These are the companies that go out of their way to keep their employees happy in their jobs. But is there a direct connection between having happy workers and a company making more money? One person who may have the answer is Jerome Dodson, the founder of Parnassus Investments, which created a mutual fund that invests exclusively in large American firms proven to have outstanding workplaces.
The major Holi festival of India was celebrated last week -- a riot of color and and gaiety marking the coming of Spring, the season of hope and joy. Family and strangers rush with excitement down every street corner pouring colored powders on passers by.
An on-air personality at the news desk for the Fox-54 station in Huntsville, Alabama, was tricked into reading a breaking news story that included a wedding proposal from her own boyfriend, after he planted the breaking news script on the reporter's teleprompter,
How great is it that our small acts of kindness can make someone else's entire day? Here are 42 good deeds and small acts of kindness that can help you feel amazing.
A man has made it his mission to make Washington, D.C. smile -- especially on Monday mornings. This 5-minute video won the 2013 Pendragwn Youth Film Festival's Grand Prize Award.
The story began on Martha's Vineyard where an 81-year-old mystery writer received a coded message in the mail. Cynthia wondered if it wasn't from the same man who sixty years earlier passed coded notes to her in a biology lab.