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Thousands Raised for Cancer Research by 8 Year-Old Girl Honoring Dad
Why did Georgetown University rename its cancer research lab in honor a donation of just $5,000? Because the money was raised by a nine...
Fencing Program Enriches Inner City Kids
Life was frustrating amid the poverty and violence of the housing projects in Newark, New Jersey. So Peter Westbrook’s mother encouraged him to channel...
Fishermen Take Lead in Helping Endangered Whales
The decades-old saga of the endangered Northern right whale has long stranded animal welfare advocates and the lobstermen on opposite shores of Cape Cod...
Man Wins Lottery and Gives it all to Charity
A Canadian man who won $1 million in a lottery for charity plans to give it all back. “I bought a ticket for $100,...
Michigan CEO Splits $128Mil Among Employees
Workers in Belleville, Michigan will never forget hometown businessman Bob Thompson, who sold his successful asphalt paving business for $422 million.
He paid the taxes...
Airman Finds and Returns $9,000 in Cash
HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. -- Good guys still exist, and one of them is an airman from the 25th Intelligence Squadron here, who recently returned...
She Invested $60,000 and Seven Years of Her Life to Free a Stranger From Prison
A 68-year old New Jersey widow was so convinced of a young man’s innocence after reading a news account of his murder conviction that...
Give a Gift That Will Feed Hungry Kids For Years To Come
Do you want to give an imaginative gift and feed hungry children in Chicago or Shanghai at the same time? Now you can give...
Captain’s Crew Saved Thanks to Miracle Ten Dollar Bill
By the time 22 Pakistani sailors had made it to safe harbor off the tip of Texas on the eve of Thanksgiving in 1998,...
The Doctor is a Clown?!?
Do you like the academy award-winning actor Robin Williams? Does free medical care sound like a good idea to you? How about a movie...
Operation Smile Turning Disfigured Faces into Smiling Faces
In 16 years, Operation Smile has treated over 45,000 children and young adults with deformities in the U.S. and abroad, offering hope and changing...
Sage In Toyland: Slinky CEO Cares About Her Employees
I had to call Betty. I hadn’t talked to her in a while. I had met Betty a few years ago when I toured...
Bank Supports Green Initiatives in Pacific Northwest
A new bank in a seacoast town on the mouth of the Columbia River in Washington State is taking a cue from urban experiments...
Post Cereal Feeds the Needy
In celebration of their 100th anniversery, Post Cereal Company (of Battle Creek, Michigan), in collaboration with Second Harvest, is feeding America's hungry. "We're not...
Nursing Homes: Transforming Homes for the Dying into Homes for the Living …the Eden Alternative
When Bill Thomas graduated from Harvard Medical School he had no intention of working in a nursing home -- too depressing. “I went out...
Giant Corporations Invest in Child (and Elder) Care
AT&T, IBM, Texaco, Aetna, Xerox, Citibank and other leaders of business are finally recognizing the problems families face while trying to juggle child care,...
Oprah’s Angel Network Inspires Wife to Give up Savings
No one is more a catalyst for encouraging Good Samaritans these days than Oprah Winfrey. Her Oprah show has transformed the TV talk show...
Paper Companies Find Substitute for Trees
Weyerhaeuser, International Paper and Crane are experimenting with non-wood papers, which reduces deforestation, involves fewer pesticides, bleaches, and chemicals, and may create jobs in...
Who Says New York City is Cold and Impersonal?
Who Says New York City is Cold and Impersonal?
"On a recent visit, my husband and I were standing in the TKTS line (to buy...
Ted Turner Donates $1 Billion to the U.N.
"Trying to set a new standard for gallantry," billionaire Ted Turner announced to a delighted gathering of United Nations supporters that he would donate...