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Generosity is the quality of being kind and generous.
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Heroes
Generosity Hero: Kegan and Taylor
Submitted by After a very difficult divorce last year, I decided to sell my home and move closer to my parents. While I was packing, my home caught fire because of a mistake I made by placing a box too close to a heater. My children's bedrooms were the most ba... Read moreGenerosity Hero: Eric
Submitted by Last Friday the most amazing thing happened to me. For several months I had been training with my sister to run a half-marathon. It was my sister's first half marathon and both of us decided to use the race as an opportunity to raise money for cau... Read moreGenerosity Hero: Denise
Submitted by Denise has contributed within her family and throughout her community. While her children were growing up, she actively participated in school activities with three kids. Now she teaches sign language classes and is a teacher's aide for handicappe... Read moreGenerosity Hero: Ellen
Submitted by Desiree Willis My hero is Ellen P. For over 15 years, Ellen has always graciously opened her home to anyone wanting to celebrate the ancient solar holidays such as the Solstices and Equinoxes. We gather every 8-10 weeks to honor and connect with Mother Nature. E... Read moreGenerosity Hero: Unknown
Submitted by Several years ago, each Christmas season, the Salvation Army would get something extra in their donation bucket near where I live. Someone would drop a one hundred bill with a dollar bill rubber cemented on each side to disguise it, ensuring that ... Read more
Personal Stories
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Submitted by Tony A friends journey: My wife got breast cancer in her mid 30's on Valentines day 2001. She had treatment and beat it. But it returned in the brain - 9 tumors. She was given the only treatment available in Australia, which almost killed her itself... Read moreThere are good people out there!
Submitted by Anonymous I work for a bus company in where I am an aide on a school van with two disabled teen boys. One of my guys, Tyrell is almost completely blind and has some other physical and mental issues as well. Tyrell was all smiles for about a week at this poi... Read moreFull House
Submitted by Jourdan Castillo Growing up my mother taught me to be generous. Whenever someone was in need of anything such as food, money, or even a home, she was always there for them. No matter if it was family or friends or even strangers, there was always a place in her he... Read moreKeeping things in perspective
Submitted by Julia The generosity in me was inspired following a retreat celebrating the 2010 Lunar New Year (Chinese/Vietnamese New Year). For the first time, I started filling decorative red envelopes with "lucky money" to send to family, friends, co-workers, form... Read moreGum
Submitted by Anonymous Today I was out shopping with my mom at a store. While a lady in front of us in the checkout line, I spied a kid that looked 2 years younger than me. He was trying to get some gum but probably was out of money, because he just stared at the dispen... Read more
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Quotes
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Wherever there is a human in need, there is an opportunity for kindness and to make a difference.
He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
A pessimist, they say, sees a glass as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty.
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Young people love to help out when given the chance and in this spot they get an enthusiastic dose of encouragement from a classmate. This message puts the spotlight on young heroes who give from ... Read More
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