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Woman Rallies to Raise $475K For Disabled Mugging Victim Too Scared to Return Home
A 21-year-old beautician was so upset last week after hearing about a disabled elderly man injured in a mugging that she started an online...
The Top 10 Good News Stories of 2014
In many respects 2014 was a rough year, with Ebola, the Islamic State, and deaths in Ukraine, but it was also one in which...
Mysterious Notes Lead to Neighbor in Need – and Kindness Delivered
A desperate woman was surprised when neighbors she'd never met showed up at her door bringing bags of groceries.
It all started with a cryptic...
Our 2014 Top Photo Picks Confirm the Goodness of Humanity
18) Some Police Officers REALLY Do Care
An El Paso Police Officer helped out a homeless man in need during a December, 2013 snowstorm. According...
Troopers Drive 87-year-old Across Utah to See Her Ailing Son
An 87-year-old Nevada woman rushing to see her son, who was in critical condition in a Salt Lake City hospital 350 miles away, got...
Woman With MS Gets The Lift She Needs From Sheriff’s Deputy
During a power outage in Detroit last week, Kristi Marie Earley was all smiles when a police officer offered to carry her down the...
Random Acts of Kindness Group: Uplifting Canadians for 7 Years
An 80-year-old great-grandmother was handed a $50 gift card by an anonymous youth in November, a random act of kindness by a group in...
Grandma’s Got The Zumba Moves!
Two years ago a young Singapore woman started her first Zumba Gold class for seniors who never exercised.
The class was so well received that...
Beautiful Reason These College Students Live In A Retirement Community
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Inside the Judson Manor retirement community in Cleveland, Ohio, they have about 100 senior residents.
They also host several college students who live in...
Chinese Millionaire Builds Free Luxury Homes in Slum Where He Grew Up
A businessman has returned to the village where he was born in southern China to repay the kindness of residents who, like him, grew...
Can Aging Be Stopped by Your Mind-set? Studies Say Yes
If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically?
Ellen Langer’s 35 years of experiments have shown that mental...
Old Man Filled With Emotion as $6000 Cash is Returned by Kind Strangers
The Victoria Police reported Thursday that an elderly man of 87 was reunited with a bag of cash containing $6000 after he lost it...
Act of Kindness in a New Zealand Checkout Line
"When Pak'nSave checkout operator Rebecca Mclean, 18, helped an elderly customer pay for her groceries last week she did not intend to tell anyone," reports...
Girl Swept Away in Tsunami 10 Years Ago Reunited With Family
Raudhatul Jannah was just 4 years old when the catastrophic tsunami roared into the Indonesian town of Aceh and swept her away.
She and her family had been...
Bank Makes ‘ATM’ Into Auto THANKS Machine, Dispenses Incredible Goodwill
TD bank in Canada turned an ATM into an Automated Thanking Machine and recorded customers' reactions to receiving personalized gifts dispensed through a small...
Alzheimer’s Rate Falling in the United States, Studies Show
"The number of new cases of dementia has been declining in recent decades in the United States, Germany and other developed countries, a trio...
Unlikely Friendship Between Toddler and WWII Vet Will Melt Your Heart
For a decade, the Rychner family of Farmington, Minnesota had little interaction with the elderly man living next door. Once in a while they...
Photo of the Day – Poster Girl for Sunglasses Day
Elton John has over a thousand pairs, because nothing makes you quite as stylish as a pair of shades. Today is Sunglasses Day.
Dog Stayed By Man’s Side 23 Days After He Died
An elderly man who vanished nearly a month ago was found dead, with his beloved pet Maltese dog watching over him, 23 days after...
‘Aid For Friends’ Started With an Extra Portion at Dinner
Vince Schiavone recalls that, “Mom used to make an extra portion of food every night. She’d put it in a tin container, and,...