2006-12-17
Teen Returns $24,000 in Untraceable Bills
A Long Island, N.Y., college student has returned $24,000 in untraceable $100 bills he found while at his job cleaning a movie theater...
2006-12-16
World's tallest man saves dolphins (with his world's longest arms!)
The world's tallest man has saved two dolphins by using his long arms to reach into their stomachs and pull out dangerous plastic shards...
2006-12-16
Local Fund Helps Area Residents Through Financial Emergencies
Family medical costs sent a retiree's prudent budget into a tailspin, but because she owned a home and had a retirement income it's likely that no other agency would help her. The People for People Fund volunteer assessed her situation and decided that they could assist her...
2006-09-01
Is Kindness Truly Contagious?
I just found this great site (helpingothers.org) whose sole purpose is to make people smile through small acts of kindness! They started with SmileCards that are handed out in a game of pay-it-forward: Anonymously make someone smile and leave the card behind to keep the ripple going...
2006-07-31
Waitress asks for ID, gets her stolen license back
A bar waitress checking to see if a woman was legally old enough to drink was handed her own stolen driver's license, which was reported missing weeks earlier...
2006-07-26
Homeless Man Finds and Returns $21,000 in Savings Bonds
Rewards worth $4,000 were pledged Monday to Charles Moore, the local homeless man who found nearly $21,000 worth of U.S. savings bonds in the trash and returned them to the owner's family.
Many residents here and in other states were aghast that the son of the deceased bond owner expressed the family's gratitude by giving a $100 tip to Moore, who was featured in a Detroit News story Saturday...
2006-05-31
Colorado Boy Found After Four Days in Wilderness
An 8-year-old boy who wandered away from his campsite over the weekend was found alive Tuesday in a rugged area with steep cliffs and narrow ravines...
2006-05-26
TeensTakeCharge.com Founder Wins "Kids of Distinction" Award
Emmy Liss is the founder of Teens Take Charge, a non-profit organization whose goal is to foster more community service opportunities for high school students in Nassau County (NY). She was recently recognized by the Kids Helping Kids organization with a scholarship for her community service contributions, including the www.teenstakecharge.org web site which connects high school students with opportunities at local non-profit entities...
2006-05-01
Immigrant banker had many mentors -- now mentors others
Small-business banker Paulina Sihakom credits her success to many mentors, who have helped her since she arrived at age 7, a non-English speaking refugee from Laos. Now a successful vice presient at a local bank, she strives to give back to the community that helped her, be a mentor to the community's youth, and help up-and-coming bankers succeed...
2006-04-28
Utah Group Helps Single Moms Succeed
Picture a single mother of four supporting her young family on $20,000 a year. With the help of People Helping People (PHP) many of these single moms are able to work their way out of poverty into better employment. PHP strives to help low-income single moms and women build a better life for themselves and their children through long-term successful employment...
2006-04-15
New York City Cat Rescued After 14 Days
After 14 days trapped in the innards of a Greenwich Village building, Molly the cat finally emerged wearing a look on her face that said, "What's all the fuss about?"...
2006-04-12
Got Milk? Try Chocolate After Your Workout
Downing chocolate milk after a tough workout can help replenish exhausted muscles and significantly aid exercise recovery, new research shows. Seriously...
2006-04-12
Chemical engineering student helps Mexican community meet sanitation needs
Amanda Cuellar, a junior chemical engineering/Plan II major at The University of Texas at Austin, is volunteering her summer in the Mexican community of Damasco to help improve sanitation conditions...
2006-04-12
Lots of Locks: Elementary students donate hair to kids with cancer
For many people, it is devastating to lose their hair through disease or from chemotherapy. For children, it can be even worse. To help children who have lost their hair, the students at Cash Elementary School recently donated their hair to Locks of Love...
2006-02-27
Fayetteville (NC) Habitat for Humanity gets help during Spring Break
For most college students, spring break conjures images of sun tans, beaches, and sand. But other students have a different idea...
2006-02-23
Michigan State students helping others during spring break
Twenty-five Michigan State University students will wend their way to the battered and beaten Gulf Coast, near New Orleans, to help provide hurricane relief through MSU's Alternative Spring Break program March 4-11...
2006-02-16
Patagonia wind aids remote communities
Wind energy is the most widespread renewable energy source in Argentina - and Patagonia in particular has extraordinary potential due to its strong and constant winds...
2006-02-14
Best bang for your buck
You have $1. How should you spend it to do the most good? This is the subtitle of a Slate.com article on the various ways one could use a limited amount of money to make the world a better place...
2006-02-09
Boy Scout saves nurse who saved him
A teenage Boy Scout performed the Heimlich manoeuvre on a choking woman in a restaurant only to learn the victim had saved his own life nearly seven years ago...
2006-02-08
Veteran is helping youth succeed
Pat Sculley does not impress easily. He is a graduate of West Point Academy. He made a boatload of money
working with H. Ross Perot at Electronic Data Systems. And there was this little incident in Iran...
2006-02-07
Toronto duo links people
Helping people fulfil favours has taken over Parveen Sangha's and Daniel Talas's lives. The creators of Favorville were shocked at the response after the site's introduction in December 2005...