Solar Power from Scrap Metal
CNN Hero Evans Wadongo shows how he and his group turn pieces of scrap metal into a solar powered lantern.
CNN

'Pay it forward' pays off
This recent study explores how Random Acts of Kindness positively impacts people and spreads to others.
Physorg

Scott Fujita knows the right way to leave a city
Before leaving New Orleans to play for the Cleveland Browns, linebacker Scott Fujita gave half of his recent Super Bowl check to charity.
Yahoo! Sports

Secret millionaire donates fortune to Lake Forest College
Woman who lived frugally donates $7 million to alma mater.
Chicago Tribune

Malaria Consortium saves lives one net at a time
Photographer William Daniels documents an organization that is saving lives by providing free mosquito nets to those in the developing world where malaria has become a widespread.
Ode Magazine

Disabled community to be guests of honor at church prom
400 people with varying disabilities will be the guests of honor for a free formal ball at a Denver-area church.
Colorado Daily

Making a Difference 101
Students in Lansing, Michigan, learn how young people, too, can make a difference.
NBC Nightly News- Making a Difference

Recycled Sneakers Fit for Sharing
Used sneakers, a runner learns, will take kids places they’d only dreamed they could go.
Reader's Digest

"Cool under cabin pressure"
Last year we featured the "Miracle on the Hudson" as a billboard around the value of Preparation. Now, one year later, Captain Sullenberger, along with the crew, passengers and first responders, gather to remember Flight 1549 and share how life has changed since the rescue.
CBS News

True stories of heroic pets
Pets who make a difference.
USA Today

Young Figure Skating Phenom Catching the World's Attention
He's only 10, but future Olympian Nathan Chen is already a dazzling skater.
ABC News: Person of the Week

Boss Gives Company to Workers
Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods owner Bob Moore gives his company to his employees.
ABC News

Christo Brand
ABC News talks with Nelson Mandela's jailor about the friendship they shared.
ABC News: Person of the Week

Pay-what-you-can café
In Denver, a little kindness is being served at a cafe where no one--not even non-paying customers--gets turned away.
NBC Nightly News- Making a Difference

Man Training to Be 911 Operator Saves Son's Life When Wife Calls for Help
OLYMPIA, Wash. — An Iraq war veteran training to be an emergency operator in Thurston County saved his own son's life when his wife called 911 in a panic as the boy choked on a small piece of plastic.
FoxNews.com

The Cupid Project
Not-so-random acts of kindness on Valentine’s Day
Guideposts

What Could You Live Without?
The story of an Atlanta family who, wanting to “do something” about inequity in the world, sold their luxurious family home and donated half the proceeds to charity.
The New York Times

Healing the visible – and invisible – scars of war through flag football
Iraqi war veteran Nico Marcolongo founded the ‘Buddy Bowl’ to benefit military veterans.
The Christian Science Monitor

Rich in good deeds
A former cop who went to Sri Lanka seeking lottery numbers found new meaning to the word ‘riches’ instead.
Malaysia Star

High school teammates carry on
Two high school wrestlers, one blind and one with no legs, discover the meaning of true friendship.
ESPN

Big heart, small funds? Try a giving circle!
Giving circles are a way for ordinary individuals to pool together funds for a philanthropic purpose.
Examiner.com

4 Amazing Caregiving Stories
Love doesn’t stop when a parent, spouse, or friend gets sick. Here, remarkable stories of stepping up, sticking around, and finding joy.
Reader's Digest

Patrick Henry Hughes
Despite overwhelming odds, Patrick Henry Hughes has overcome seemingly debilitating physical issues to excel as a musician and university student. (www.patrickhenryhughes.com)
YouTube

Kiki Wetherbee on seeing the beauty within
"If Kiki Wetherbee has a positive outlook, much of the credit, she says, should go to her mother, Janet Wood. Wetherbee was born with a host of physical problems, most noticeable of which were a bilateral cleft palate and a club foot..."
Examiner.com

Buried in Haiti rubble, U.S. man survives
Buried in Haiti rubble, a dad wrote goodbyes to his family and cleverly used his iPhone to survive.
Today on MSNBC

Doc Hendley: Community Crusader
Bartender Doc Hendley is providing clean water to communities worldwide. Through creative fundraising, his nonprofit Wine to Water has brought sustainable water systems to 25,000 people in five countries.
CNN Heroes

Zimbabwe's language of hope
As political stalemate deepens, a school for the hearing-impaired in an impoverished township shows what's possible.
The Christian Science Monitor

Blind woman learning to be a chef
Student at Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago hopes to open restaurant one day.
Chicago Tribune

The Making of a Hero
In the wake of a thwarted terrorist attack on a Northwest flight to Detroit, a renowned psychologist talks about what makes ordinary people do heroic things.
NEWSWEEK

Man Sends 4,000 Shoes Across The Border
Don and Beverly Glasgow send 2,000 pairs of shoes to needy families across the border.
The Huffington Post