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Santa and Mrs. Claus Reside in Utah, Toymakers Deliver 1 Million Handmade Gifts Worldwide
17 years ago, a retired couple in Utah started making handmade wooden toys for poor and sick children. The little cars and trucks were...
Filipino Street Kid Wins $130,000 Peace Prize
An abused Filipino child who lived off a garbage dump has won a prestigious children's award for the work of his 'Championing Community Children'...
Bald Eagle, Impotent Since Shooting, Gets New Beak With 3D Technology
A bald eagle shot in the face by a poacher in 2005, suffered such damage to her beak that feeding herself became impossible. Animal...
DC Commuters Have Happy Mondays Thanks to Man Waving Uplifting Signs
Bleary-eyed drivers entering Washington, DC on Monday mornings, are jolted into happiness by people waving with signs with optimistic slogans from the side of the...
‘Dames Gone Wild’ Leave Jobs to Go on Volunteer Road Trip Across America
Two best friends in Florida after leaving jobs that no longer fulfilled them decided to pack their bags and go on a "Summer Service...
Strangers Rally for Dog Rescue at 14,000 Feet
Strangers banded together to organize an impromptu rescue yesterday after a couple, climbing Mt. Bierstadt to Mt. Evans in Colorado, found an abandoned german...
Boy Rallies Restaurants to Recycle Used Crayons for Schools in Need
After a family dinner at a local Outback Steakhouse, Yoni Kalin noticed the waiters tossing into the trash small packs of crayons given out...
Simultaneous Acts Of Kindness In Five Cities
A guerrilla kindness event held simultaneously in five cities provided a scavenger hunt of sweetness for volunteers on a mission to put a smile...
Good Deeds To Celebrate Mandela’s 94th Birthday
Children in South Africa began their school day Wednesday by singing Happy Birthday to the country's most famous statesman while across the world people...
13-Year-old Recycles Cooking Grease into Heating Oil for Needy Families
After reading an article in the local newspaper, Cassandra Lin of Westerly, Rhode Island discovered that many residents could not afford to heat their...
16-Year-old Wins $10,000 Hero Award for Providing Head-to-Toe Makeovers for Deserving Teen Girls
16-year-old Allyson Ahlstrom of Santa Rosa, Calif., wasn't satisfied with the idea of underprivileged teen girls settling for wearing used clothing from a thrift...
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...
Iraq Veterans Turn Around Drug-infested Neighborhood
Veterans are taking the lead in Baltimore, cleaning up years of blight and helping residents in a mostly poor, African-American neighborhood to rid the...
Group Builds Fences to Free Dogs From Chained Existence
On May 23, 2009, a small group arrived at the Portland home of Chopper, a big hunk of a dog who spent day after...
Country Star Tim McGraw To Give Away 25 Mortgage-Free Homes To Wounded Vets
Just in time for Memorial Day, Tim McGraw is giving away a mortgage-free house to wounded or needy service members for each stop on...
Once Bound for Slaughterhouse Horse Becomes Prize Winner
Can Ace, the reddish-brown, strong-bodied animal with the outsized personality really be the same horse that arrived several months ago, malnourished and afflicted with...
‘Welcome Home’ Program Inspires U.S. Soldiers for Last Time
Every day in the past 8 years, more than 100 US soldiers passed through the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport on their way home for two...
101-Year-old Woman Gets Her House Back Thanks to Author Mitch Albom
Last fall, Texana Hollis, 101, was evicted from her Detroit home after almost 60 years. A Good Samaritan from church took her in, while...
Florida Hero Rebuilds Endangered Coral Reefs
Over a 40 year span, scuba enthusiast Ken Nedimyer watched helplessly as two of the most important corals went into drastic decline. Today, they...
Army of Strangers Pitch in to Help Tornado Victims
Hundreds of volunteers pitched in to help the American communities hit hard by tornadoes that ravaged the Midwest and the South.
Young people worked alongside...