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Businesses, Citizens Team Up to Help Homeless Families for the Holidays
A team of Sioux Falls businesses is encouraging the entire community to remember the reason for the season, and help give the area's homeless...
Jeff Bridges Leads New Hungry Kids Campaign to End U.S. Childhood Hunger
Academy Award winning actor Jeff Bridges came to Washington, D.C. yesterday to roll out a new campaign as national spokesperson for the No Kid...
Dreams Come True on Final Day of Spring Auction for RFK Center
The annual RFK Center spring auction is in its final day, with online bidding closing tomorrow. Do you want to meet Oprah, have lunch...
Red Kettle Donations Break Salvation Army Record
By nickels, dimes, and dollars, Americans donated a record $139 million to the Salvation Army's Red Kettle campaign during the holidays, despite a continued...
Woman Begins Each Day Packing 400 Lunches for City’s Homeless
Marcia Merrick says helping is simple. With her two kids grown up now, she still makes lunches every morning -- 400 of them --...
In Wake of Thwarted Bombing: What Makes Ordinary People do Heroic Things?
Jasper Schuringa, a Dutch passenger on Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day, helped prevent the Yemeni bomber from setting off an explosive device on...
Teen Gives Up Gifts So He Can Help Homeless Vets
Jake Shaffer was 11 years old when he asked his parents if, instead of Christmas gifts for him, he could bring 100 bagged lunches...
Brooklyn Mother Regains Sight and Sees Daughter for the First Time
The wrapping on Cassy Rivera's Christmas present was totally non traditional this year: white gauze, layered over a sterile eye patch.
After the bandage came...
Gift of Glamour Goes to Those who Need it
Carey Carter and Mitchell Barnes, owners of the posh Carter Barnes salon in Atlanta, Georgia, found an amazing, unconventional way to bring Christmas joy...
Hundreds of Carolers Gather Outdoors to Sing for Woman with Cancer
A chain of e-mails and friends talking to friends grew the caroling idea into something bigger than the organizers could have possibly imagined....
Man Finds Superhuman Strength to Lift Car from Trapped Girl
A young girl is calling her neighbor a superhero because of his superhuman actions while she was trapped beneath a car. ...
Las Vegas School is Lifeline for Hungry Kids With Nothing
Principal Sherrie Gahn said she was shocked when she first came to Whitney Elementary School seven years ago. "The kids were eating ketchup packets,"...
Gold Coins Drop Anonymously into Red Kettles Across America
With gold prices more than $1,100 an ounce, it’s "like visions of sugar plums" when gold coins are discovered by the ringing bell Santas...
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...
Stopping the Holiday Drama In Your Family
The holidays often elicit so many mixed emotions. Along with the joy, comes dread, anxiety and drama bubbling to the surface. Why...
Firemen Deliver Pizza With Smoke Detectors
Not only do the brave firefighters in Wausau, Wis. help to save lives, they are helping to deliver pizza! The fire...
How One Family Eliminated $106,000 of Debt
Frugality and hard work led to a debt-free lifestyle in five years for Russell and Kathy Hildebrandt of New Richmond, Wis., who successfully...
Salvation Army Reports Record-Setting Red Kettle Donations
Holiday donations to The Salvation Army's iconic red kettles set a new national record of $130 million, despite the ongoing economic downturn, surpassing the...
Violinist Plays for Those who Saved His Arm
Ken Wollberg, a classically trained violinist, returned to the hospital where surgeons reattached his triceps and tissue to show his appreciation with a concert....
Boy Gets Specially Made Goalie Gloves by Puma
A boy from Gloucester, England got the perfect gift this Christmas. His parents presented him with a pair of gloves designed especially...