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Volvo Pledges Lifetime of Cars to U.S. Doctor Serving Orphans, Mothers in Ethiopia
The fourth annual Volvo for Life awards were announced and the 2006 grand prize winner is Dr. Ingida Asfaw of Pontiac, Michigan. Asfaw is...
Bon Jovi to Sponsor Six Homes with Habitat for Humanity in Philly
A Philadelphia radio station announced the expansion of a partnership between Jon Bon Jovi and the city's Habitat for Humanity charity by highlighting the...
Hundreds of thousands of young Sudanese to go to school for first time thanks to UN aid
3 April – In a massive campaign to double the number of children in school as part of peace dividend, hundreds of thousands of...
The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World
The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World (Hardcover) The researchers who wrote this fascinating book characterize a new group of...
Science Confirms Humans Naturally Helpful
What is human nature? Are we basically good, evil, or a little of both? Philosophers have debated this throughout the ages, but today science...
Honoring Youth Heroes
June 3, 2005 — Kids everywhere are helping out around communities. These children have done things such as volunteering, raising money for patients with cancer,...
Diet Linked to Hyper Kids
A revolution has turned around Central Alternative High School in Appleton, Wisconsin, and its ‘problem kids’, sent there from twelve area schools. Respect, achievement,...
A Special Group of Soldiers, Vietnamese Orphans and Their American Angel
Betty Tisdale has a special spot in her heart for veterans, especially Vietnam vets. She read a book that changed her life by renowned...
Persistence Pays for PhD Student Once Labeled Retarded
Dave Dawson's future looked bleak in 1974. Based on tests, his ninth-grade teachers labeled him mentally retarded. “My vocational expectation was to be a...
Amish Come to Rescue of Town Flattened by Tornado
Tornados hit La Plata, Maryland killing three people and ruining 400 homes. The entire town center was destroyed.
After the devastation another force came to...
Telecommuting Success Honored
AT&T is the 2001 recipient of the Vision for America Award for its environmentally sound workplace practices.
Through AT&T’s telework program, employees who telecommuted from...
Forgiving the Unforgivable
Why would Peter and Linda Biehl, a wealthy, conservative Newport Beach couple, leave their privileged community for South Africa to work arm in arm...
Healing on Her Mind; Surviving a Brain Tumor
As Cheryl Clark began a weekend horseback ride one sunny October afternoon in 1997, a time bomb went off. A violent seizure threw the...
Woman Donates Part of her Liver to a Child She Didn’t Even Know
While the season of giving flourished in department stores, the true meaning of the word was demonstrated in a hospital in North Carolina. A...
Teaching Kids to Ride Bikes
Today was an interesting day. The phone had rang last night and told me where to go.
The program was teaching disabled children how to...
A “Point of Light” in Brazil’s Jungle; a Nurse is Honored for Her Work
Doctors Without Borders not only won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, but Kathleen Mahoney, one of its volunteers, a graduate nursing student at the...
29 Year-Old Single-Handedly Raises Relief Supplies for Hurricane Victims
Esther Stevens’ dining table in Colorado Springs, CO, has become a makeshift operations center for getting aid to the victims of Hurricane Mitch.
“I’ve never...
Wildlife Thrives in Restored Chicago Wetlands
The northwest corner of Chicago, framed by the lanes of traffic along Interstate 94 and State Route 14, seems an unlikely address for wildlife....
UPS Sends Senior Managers Into Hell’s Kitchen to Help Poor
Call it a crash course in “The Shocking Facts of Life 101”, when United Parcel Service executives from around the country are air-dropped into...
Operation Smile Turning Disfigured Faces into Smiling Faces
In 16 years, Operation Smile has treated over 45,000 children and young adults with deformities in the U.S. and abroad, offering hope and changing...