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‘People’s Gardens’ Take Root With Agriculture Department Volunteers
80 volunteers at the US Department of Agriculture are lending their sweat and muscle to an organic garden created by USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack...
Oregon Volunteers Build Free Fences for Chained Dogs
This all-volunteer group is not quite one year old, and it has already built 50 fences and freed more than 60 dogs from...
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...
Good News in History, November 17
151 years ago today, the Rival cities of Buda and Pest put their differences aside and their names together to form Budapest—the capital of...
Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Returns to Modern Screens With Hopeful Stories of Wildlife Problems Solved
Edited from original article by World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel.
For an entire generation of Americans who...
Vet the Vote Recruits Over 163,000 Poll Workers for US Elections Dedicated to Rules and Fair Play
Every election year America needs around one million volunteers to work at polls across 50 states and territories to arrive before dawn, gather in...
Good News in History, November 2
This daily column features all the good news, anniversaries and birthdays from this day in history—November 2.
Luke Combs, James Taylor Headline Star-Studded Concert for Carolina–Raises $24 Million for Hurricane Relief
Some of the biggest stars in country music teamed up on a Saturday night to see how much money they could raise for hurricane...
At Tampa’s NHL Win the Loudest Cheer Went to Opposing Fans Who Came Down 2 Weeks Early to Help Fix Power Lines
On Tuesday, the NHL season opened with the Tampa Bay Lighting claiming a 4-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks, giving hockey fans in the...
Pilot of Rescue Flight for Pets Impacted by Hurricanes Adopts Kitten, Finding ‘Love at 30,000 Feet’
On October 12th, a Southwest Airlines pilot fell in love with a little kitten named Avery while transporting him and 150 other shelter animals...