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Hero Teen Breaks High School Volunteer Record
Eboni Stevenson, a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School in Denver, won an award recently for devoting more than 3,000 hours of her time...
Drug Addict Overcomes Past to Become Nursing School Graduate
After years of smoking crack with her mother, shooting heroin and living on the streets, Skyla Nieves completed an incredible journey this week graduating...
Rap Star Drake Flies to Texas Just to Visit Teen With Cancer
Well, Drake may have just officially won himself the title of sweetest rapper ever.
He flew to Texas to surprise 15-year-old Kennedy Brown, who was...
Engineering Students Design Robotic Arm for Teen With Brittle Bones
It was a big day for Dee Faught when a team of Rice University students gave him a helping hand. In fact, they gave...
Teen Sells Her New Jeep to Buy Car for a Friend
In a sweet act of generosity, a teenage girl has sold her brand new dream Jeep so she could buy her friend a vehicle....
Flooded Town’s High School Finally Graduates with Gifted Gowns and Tuxes
The outgoing Grade 12 class at High River’s high school in Alberta finally had a graduation ceremony roughly two months after a flood disaster...
The U.S. Has a Really Helpful Student Loan Repayment Program—and No One’s Using It
The menu of repayment options available for student borrowers is a key benefit of taking out federal instead of private student loans, but new...
Rutgers Experiment Sends 100 Urban Kids to College – for Free
Five years ago, Rutgers University began a grand experiment. What would happen if the university put nearly 200 low-income kids in an intensive multiyear...
Oregon Plans for Free College Tuition in a Pay It Forward Plan
In Oregon, where the cost of tuition has soared as public funding for higher education declined, the state legislature this week approved an idea...
Boston Runner and Blast Victim Form Lifelong Bond
The lives of two men, one a young marathon runner who had crossed the finish line two minutes before the bomb exploded, and an...
Millionaire Buys Daycare and College for Crime-Filled Neighborhood, Turns it Around
Harris Rosen owns seven hotels in Orlando, Florida, but hasn't always been wealthy. The 73-year-old grew up a son of poor immigrants in New...
Boys & Girls Clubs of America Receives $464,425 Contribution from Toyota
Combatting the high school dropout crisis and preparing millions of American teens for college, Toyota donated $464,425 to Boys & Girls Clubs of America...
Drunk-Driving Teen Forgiven By Victim’s Family; They Plead for Leniency in Court
The heart-wrenching exchange between a father whose son died in a car crash and the teenage drunk driver who was behind the wheel left...
Unique ‘Pay it Forward’ Business School in Africa Gives Free Tuition for Graduates to Serve
A unique, not-for-profit business school in South Africa recently held its fifth graduation ceremony. Their students are not required to pay for their education monetarily,...
CodeNow Teaches City Kids Coding, Sparking Lifelong Interest
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs, who changed the way we live, all had this in common: Access to technology at an early...
Gotta Watch: Soldier Homecomings Caught on Video for Natl Geo Memorial Day Show
Since 9/11, more than 2 million service people have been deployed overseas, separated from the ones they hold most dear. But the strain of...
Company Hits Milestone With $1Billion Spent on College Degrees for Employees
Sometimes big companies actually do good things for their employees during bad times. And keep on doing it, quietly, without making a fuss. United...
CMA Donates $6 Million for Music Education in Schools
The CMA Foundation has donated another $1.4 million to benefit music education programs for Nashville's public schoola through its "Keep the Music Playing" campaign,...
Las Vegas Principal Goes Door to Door Hoping To Beat The Odds
Nevada has the lowest high school graduation rate in the country. But now a multi-million dollar federal grant is helping one district turn its...
A Runner for Cancer Decides to Become Oncologist After Losing Father
Jenna Norton is not your typical medical school applicant. In fact, until two years ago, she had never considered a career in medicine. It...