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Chicago Coffee Shop Owner Has Collected 6,000 Warm Coats for the Homeless–And Delivered Them With Coffee
Tucked into a suburban Chicago train station may appear to be an unassuming coffee shop. But what’s going on behind the scenes is much...
Tree Corps Has A Green Job For You: Planting the ‘Healing Power’ of Trees in Low-Income Neighborhoods
Have you ever noticed the lack of trees in some inner cities?
City neighborhoods with more wealth tend to have more trees, but that may...
Himalayan State Becomes First in India to Give Wives Co-Ownership of Ancestral Land
One of the most important stops on the ride to independence is the freedom to economically plan one's own affairs and retain ownership of...
Chicago Man Goes Around Buying All of Vendors’ Tamales in Frigid Temps Then Gives Them to Homeless
As anyone who’s ever spent any time there can tell you, Chicago is called ‘the Windy City’ with good reason. In winter, when there’s...
Amazon Launches $2 Billion Housing Fund to Make 20,000 Affordable Homes Available for Working Families in 3 Cities
Amazon this month unveiled a new Housing Equity Fund, investing more than $2 billion to preserve and create over 20,000 affordable housing units in...
Restaurant Serving Thousands of Free Meals to Homeless Is Saved by Donations from D.C. Community: ‘Tears of joy’
A restaurant owner known for feeding anyone—regardless of whether they can pay for their meal—nearly lost his business because of the pandemic. Then the...
Celebrity Chef David Chang Won $1 Million – And He’s Giving It All to Restaurant Workers
Celebrity chef David Chang, founder of the wildly successful Momofuku restaurant brand, is a force to be reckoned with in the culinary world, but...
If You’re Feeling the Weight of the World, This Beautiful Book Will Lighten Your Load
During a darker time than he’d ever known, Brad Aronson discovered shining examples of human kindness that just might have saved his sanity. It...
11-Year-old Artist is Spreading Kindness Making Flags of Gratitude for Veterans and Health Workers – LOOK
Morris Township is your typical New Jersey town: There’s a fire department and a police department; there's a medical center, and fun stores, and...
13-Year-old ‘Angel’ is Donating Thousands of Masks, Meals, and Clothing to Seattle’s Homeless–WATCH
Liem Kaplan may only be 13 years old, but he’s already spent the past seven years of his life serving his community.
Since COVID-19 hit...
Hero Teacher Spent Every Day in Lockdown Preparing Food for His Pupils and Delivered 7,500 Packed Lunches
A hero teacher in England spent every day preparing food for his 85 students who were home in quarantine— and delivered 7,500 packed lunches.
Washington Man Rescues 2.4 Million Pounds of Farmers’ Crops Going to Waste, Gets Them to Food Banks Across State
The Washington state nonprofit EastWest Food Rescue delivers truckloads of food that would be thrown out to food banks in western cities like Seattle.
Superhero Brings Smiles to 100,000 Sick Children and Families, Healing Himself Since Mom Died of Cancer in 2009
Dressing as Spiderman and bringing smiles to children’s hospitals in all 50 states was the mission of Yuri Williams and ‘A Future Super Hero and Friends’.
Vermont Becomes First State to ‘Ban’ Food Waste, in Favor of Composting—And Cutting Landfill Waste in Half
Short of creating a new police department consisting of ‘Oscar the Grouch’ and his friends, Vermont has done almost everything it can to eliminate...
After Getting Laid Off, ‘Lasagna Lady’ Responds to Coronavirus by Cooking 1,200 Pans for Strangers in Need
Michelle Brenner from Gig Harbor, Washington is now known as the Lasagna Lady for making 1200 pans of homemade goodnss for strangers during COVID-19.
9-Year-Old and Friends Have Raised $100,000 for African American Businesses Selling Homemade Bracelets
9-year-old Kamryn Johnson and her friends have been selling homemade bracelets to support African American businesses hurt by riots in Minnesota.
Publix Supermarkets Are Buying Food From Struggling Farmers So They Can Use it to Feed Families in Need
Not only will the initiative benefit millions of families who rely on Feeding America for their meals, it will also help Florida farmers with their income.
Anonymous Love Letters Lift the Spirits of Anyone Signed Up On This Website
You know how you feel when you open a mailbox and find a letter among the bills? Imagine getting dozens of anonymous notes filled with encouragement.
Chef Andrés Turns Michelin-Starred Restaurants into Kitchens Serving Take-Out Food to Anyone Who Needs It
Not only will Chef José Andrés be paying his employees for two weeks time off, he will be turning his Michelin-starred restaurants into soup kitchens.
As Fur is Phased Out of Fashion, More Than 200 Donated Fur Coats Are Handed Out to Afghanis in Need
More than 200 unwanted mink, fox, and rabbit fur coats have been handed out to Afghani families living in poverty in the capital city of Kabul.