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Ellen’s Oscar Selfie Earns $3 Million for Charities
The Academy Award selfie shared around the world, which broke several Twitter records with its 3 million retweets, including President Barack Obama's previous record,...
Coupon-clipper Leaves Secret Fortune to Seattle Charities
Most people thought he was poor.
When he spotted a bargain price on frozen orange juice one year, Jack MacDonald bought so many cans that...
Middleman Gives Tons of Business Surplus to Charities
Partnering with 40 hotels and dozens of businesses, Judson Kinnucan, 37, has made it his mission to collect their donated items, like surplus shampoos...
How Pope Benedict Pushed Charities Beyond Routine Giving
Religious leaders are honoring Pope Benedict XVI for his emphasis on making service a cornerstone of one's life. Benedict, who announced Monday that he...
Google Gives $23 Million To 7 Charities for High Tech Innovations
Asserting that nonprofits now lag behind industry in technological innovation due to lack of funding, Google unveiled its remedy yesterday. It announced $23 million...
Kate Middleton Picks Five Charities to Donate Her Time, Energy
The Duchess of Cambridge has chosen the good causes that will benefit from her publicity and volunteer work.
Kate Middleton did the research herself and...
Overcoming a Disability, Young Artist Raises $220,000 for Charities
The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards honors outstanding young do-gooders in America each year. Ten middle and high school students selected this year from...
Radio Personality Searches for Passion as Volunteer for 30 Charities in 30 Days
On September 1st, New York City based radio personality, Trey Morgan embarked on a journey designed to shock him into a more philanthropic way...
Obama Names Charities to Share His $1.4 Million Nobel Award
President Obama named ten charities this week that will share the $1.4 million award that comes with his 2009 Nobel peace prize.
“These organizations do...
Black Friday Numbers – Good News for Charities? World Vision Gift Giving Up 30 Percent
The faltering U.S. economy is again forcing many U.S. adults to cut back on holiday gift spending this year, but one leading U.S. charity...
$6,500 in Coins Dropped This Year at Amusement Park Donated to Charities
A Sandusky, Ohio amusement park has collected loose change dropped at the park since 1988 and donated more than $182,000 to local charities. Last...
Catholic Charities Guts 1000th Home for Elderly and Disabled in New Orleans
After nearly a year of helping elderly and disabled homeowners begin the clean-up process in flood-ravaged New Orleans, Catholic Charities volunteers will gut their...
Gates, Rockefeller Charities Take Aim at African Hunger
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation have teamed up to tackle hunger in Africa, starting with a $150 million endowment....
Good News in History, April 25
70 years ago today, Bell Labs finished the first functional solar cell, allowing for a panel of metal and glass to refract light and...
Good News in History, April 22
300 years ago today, Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant was born in Prussia. This revolutionary thinker saw rationality as inseparable from morality, and Kant's formulation...
British Man Finishes His Run Across Africa: 385 Marathons in 352 days
A red-headed Brit named Russ Cook claims he's become the first person ever to run across the entire length of Africa after crossing a...
How Americans Are ‘Paying it Forward’ Hundreds of Times Every Year
Almost eight in 10 Americans believe that karma is real. And, perhaps inspired by that notion, 84% say they will go out of their...
MacKenzie Scott Has Now Given Away $16.5 Billion with New Grants Announced, Since Divorcing Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
Here's a hypothetical: You want to give away $640 million, but you want to give it away to many different groups. How do you...
Good News in History, February 23
5 years ago today, 71-year-old Roy Hodgson overtook Sir Bobby Robson as the oldest man to manage a Premier League football club when his...
Good News in History, February 18
Happy 70th Birthday to John Travolta, star of such films as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Hairspray, and Swordfish. His accolades...