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Four Community Volunteers Honored as Heros for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
To honor and encourage volunteerism on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Allstate Insurance Company is honoring four African-American volunteers who generously serve their communities...
Thousands of American Nurses Answer Call for Volunteers to Go to Haiti
The nation's largest union of registered nurses, National Nurses United, issued an urgent appeal for volunteer RNs to go to Haiti, and more...
Volunteers Help Salamanders Avoid Roadway Massacre
45 people volunteered on a recent night to carry salamanders, frogs and newts across the road during their annual migration to mate. On rainy...
Volunteers Take Over Rural Newspaper After it Folds
They'll just publish the newspaper themselves! When a rural CO weekly folds, volunteers step up to fill void, forming a non-profit and doing...
74-Year-Old Doctor Volunteers for War Zone (Video)
- a retired lieutenant colonel - re-enlists to go to Afghanistan and provide medical aid to military members and civilians. He said it is...
Volunteers Restore Rivers Across America
"Federal agencies, states, tribes and concerned residents are spending millions of dollars and thousands of hours on 37,000 river restoration projects under way to...
Volunteers Build 200 Homes in African Slum in One Week
"1,400 Irish workers brought hope to hopelessly misnamed Freedom Park slum. The initiative, now in its fifth year, was organized by Niall Mellon, a...
1,500 Volunteers to Build 6 Playgrounds in One Day for New Orleans Schools
Students at six New Orleans elementary schools will soon have new places to swing, slide and play, after 1,500 volunteers gather in a one-day...
Dogs and Cats Comfort the Homeless, and the Vet Who Volunteers
"There are those who volunteer at food banks to nourish people in need. And there are those, such as Dr. Stanley Coe, a retired...
Volunteers Help Rescue First Turtle Nest of Season
Volunteers and officials near Panama City Beach, Florida, have been helping sea turtle eggs survive so that baby turtles can safely hatch and return...
Youth Volunteers Deliver Caring Friendships to Armenian Elderly Shut-Ins
An Armenian Red Cross project to help elderly refugees has resulted in some unexpected friendships. The Psycho Social Care for Elderly Refugees project, started...
After Scenic Waterway Declines, Government Sides with Activists to Intervene on the Wye River’s Behalf
The fourth-longest river in the UK is declining due to farming pollution, but the government has appointed several former and current MPs to organize...
Good News in History, April 13
Today is Vaisakhi, the second most important day of the year on the Punjabi calendar, on which Sikhs from around the world celebrate a...
Good News in History, April 12
467 years ago, Cuenca was founded in Ecuador, a city of such beauty that it has become known as the "Athens" of South America....
Amateur Fossil Hunter Calls Her Shot, Finding a Giant Mammoth Tooth After Declaring She Would on Her Birthday
- An amateur fossil hunter is celebrating a once-in-a-lifetime discovery after finding a huge mammoth tooth on a beach.
Chris Bien was visiting Holland-on-Sea,...
Aussie Man Invents Weapon in War Against Invasive Asparagus Fern–The ‘Asparagus Assassin’
While most Americans will think of asparagus as a tasty compliment to a fish dinner, or alternatively as an inedibly, mushy, misery stick to...
Witness the Glory of the 2024 European Tree of the Year – Growing in Poland for 200 Years
In this year's edition of the European Tree of the Year contest, the leafy crown was bestowed upon a common beech in the botanical...
Full Recovery for Coral Reef Within 4 Years – The Speed of Restoration They Saw was ‘Incredible’
In a truly monumental discovery, scientists studying coral restoration in Indonesia found that artificially restored coral reefs can regrow as fast a naturally occurring...
For Years Bill Walked 6 Miles to Work Until She Gave Him a Lift–And Started a Rideshare Service Just for Him
For years, in the rain or cold, Bill Moczulewski walked six miles to work at the local Walmart as a nightshift janitor—but that all...
Good News in History, March 10
826 years ago today, the Giralda Minaret was designed for the Almohad Mosque in what was Islamic Seville, Andalusia. This UNESCO World Heritage Site...