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Make-A-Wish Started With One Boy, Celebrates 250,000 Wishes Granted
Make-A-Wish is celebrating a huge milestone, having granted a quarter million wishes in the United States since the children’s charity was founded in 1980.
The wish-granting...
Food Scrap Recycling Business in Texas is Bike-Powered
A bike-powered business in Austin, Texas diverts nearly 100 tons of restaurant and residential food scraps to community gardens.
East Side Compost Pedallers from homes and...
An Instagram Photo Journal Helped Me Survive Cancer
About a year and a half ago, the life I was living ceased to exist. I was diagnosed with stage 2a Ewing’s Sarcoma, a...
Teen’s Inspiring Football Speech is Lesson in Positivity for All
A post-game interview with an Austin Texas wide receiver, Apollos Hester, turned into a motivational speech this weekend that goes way beyond football and...
NFL Football Shows Teen with Special Needs that He Has ‘No Limits’
A young Carolina Panthers fan with cerebral palsy found the opportunity to fulfill his dream of playing the sport he loves so much, thanks...
Google Surprises LA Teachers By Funding All Classroom Requests On DonorsChoose.org
Google has fully funded the classroom requests of every Los Angeles Unified School District teacher on the education crowd-funding site DonorsChoose.org. As a result...
BikeMobile Fixes More Than Kids’ Bikes in Low Income Neighborhoods (WATCH)
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Tommy Bensko went on the road to primarily in low-income neighborhoods, fixing kids’ bikes for free and giving them a hands-on education about...
Hate Crime Victim Gets Free Dental Reconstruction
A victim of a hate crime who got nine of his teeth knocked out is receiving thousands of dollars in free dental work, along...
Teenager Takes His Great-Grandmother to Prom
A student from Rockford, Ohio who learned that his great-grandmother had not gone to the prom when she was in high school would not...
New Orleans Soldier Home From Afghanistan Uses Deployment Money to Help Homeless
Sgt. Austin Winton Lumpkin, a soldier who returned home to Gretna from Afghanistan, used his deployment money to help the homeless. While he was...
Preteen Designer Hailed at Fashion Week for Style — and Brains
Fashion prodigy Isabella Rose Taylor isn't just an artist, painter and designer, the pre-teen girl from Austin is a super student who just started...
10 Year-old Hero Saves Girl, Says ‘Just Doing What’s Needed’
When their teacher asks the students in his class, 'What did you do on your summer vacation,' ten-year-old Austin Beach will have them all...
Marching to Their Own Beat: Brass Band Keeps Youngsters From Gang Life
Every Friday morning 17-year-old Sarel Ramphele puts on his gold-trimmed suit, grabs his trumpet and walks the 6 kilometers to the neighboring village. Under...
Chicago Tribune Sends Pizzas and Thanks to Boston Globe Newsroom
On Monday, the newspaper staff that had been working overtime in Boston to cover the tragic events of their city found a welcome gift...
The Man Behind a Military Patch that President Obama Prizes
When Barack Obama was still a Senator running for president, a black elevator operator, Earl Smith, shared a moment with him at the Hyatt...
Krispy Kreme Worker Knows Customer Service (Video Goes Viral of her Super Service)
Jia Jiang has designed a unique type of therapy to address his fear of rejection. As a young businessman, he wants to toughen himself...
A Peace Corps for Geeks? Nonprofit Donates Apps to Cities
Code for America is a new kind of public service. Volunteer teams have developed apps that have trimmed Boston's costs for digging out fire...
Teen Builder of ‘Tiny House’ Finishes Dorm on Wheels
Teenager Austin Hay completed construction on a tiny house with wheels that he had begun during his sophomore year of high school.
The home includes...
15-Year-Old Dog Survives Two Months in the Wild
After 3 1/2 days searching for his dog across the mountain trails in Santa Fe, N.M., camper Mike Stotts decided he had to accept...
23-Year-old ‘Hears Music’ for the First Time: Mozart Blew Me Away
Austin Chapman was born "profoundly deaf" and says he never understood why people were so moved by music. But that changed two weeks ago,...