While known for giving toys to under-privileged children during the holidays, the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation is teaming up with The UPS Store and Mail Boxes Etc. locations nationwide to provide books to needy children this holiday season through the Toys for Tots Literacy Program.
Recycle-a-Bike was founded in 1999 with a straightforward mandate: Repair abused, remaindered, broken, or worn bikes and funnel them back to consumers. But the organization's youth programs have become a big draw for students who want the mechanics training.
Two wounded veterans of the Iraq War started a weekly dinner five years ago for fellow veterans who lost limbs in the war. Each Friday there is healing and camaraderie.
Bloggers are combining physical fitness with the desire to help others in a new internet tool called Train for Humanity. Their initial pilot project focuses on raising $50,000 to help rebuild a school in Darfur.
Even while Americans are reeling from bad economic news, most donors plan to give to charity, with 51 percent planning to donate via the Internet during November or December, according to a new survey.
Archaeologists in Afghanistan said they discovered a giant Buddha statue measuring 62 feet tall and features the Buddha in a sleeping position.
A Norwegian jumper survived a spine-chilling crash from a mile-high mountain. Video captured by a camera attached to Hans Lange's specially designed jump suit showed him struggling to straighten out his parachute before slamming into a rock wall and crashing into a tree top
Farm Aid today announced that initial grants would be made to southern farm and faith-based organizations to support family farmers hardest hit by Hurricanes Ike and Gustav.
For the past seven days, there has been no getting away from the incessant drum beat of bad news... "Everything is collapsing around our ears," so says the television reporter. But the journalists' world is not the only world. There are also rescues, innovations, breakthroughs and happy endings.
Christian the lion was bought as a cub in London and raised by two young men who gave him up when he outgrew the city. They released him in Africa to be raised in the wild and the video of their joyful reunion a year later has become a YouTube sensation.
Taja Sevelle's Urban Farming program transformed hundreds of acres of vacant land in the city into 190 gardens blooming across the country and abroad, providing fresh produce to an estimated 50,000 people, some of whom desperately need it.
After a cancer patient's plea to Extreme Home Makeover to help her build a new house for her family of six, her community pulled together to grant the wish that the show couldn't.