Six years ago, Mike Berry walked with his daughter to school and it changed his life—and the lives of thousands of children in western Colorado.
As he left the school, a little girl ran across the playground to him, weeping. She told him she was cold and hungry, and had slept in the car the night before.
“God stabbed me in the heart,” Berry recalls. “I knew I had to do something to help that girl and others like her.”
Managers at Habitat for Humanity in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood recently reported that a group of burglars stole 17 brand-new appliances from several of the organization's unfinished homes.
That was all community members needed to hear before large donations began rolling in to replace the appliances.
Even though Washington, D.C. resident Reed Sandridge was recently laid off from his job at one of the District's many nonprofit agencies, he has not lost touch with the need to give back.
There are so many spring festivals around the country centered on gardening, bluegrass, wine and food, or Earth Day. But if you visit western Colorado’s Grand Valley this weekend, you’ll see a festival dedicated to sharing. Congregants of more than 100 area churches have decided to practice what they preach: Do unto others.
Eight-year-old violinist Brianna Kahane's appreciation for the healing effects of music is so deeply ingrained, that when she heard the news that a music school in Haiti was destroyed by the January earthquake she began taking action to get a new one built.
This particular school occupies a special place in Brianna's heart, because it was run by one of her favorite musicians, the blind Haitian violinist and earthquake survivor Romel Joseph, CBS news reports.
Touched by the moving images of recovery efforts from the rattling January earthquake in Haiti, masses of Americans donated their time or money.
Project Medishare, an initiative operating out of an industrial corner of Hialeah, Florida, is contributing to the aid by shipping boxes of prosthetic limbs to improve the lives of Haitian amputees, the Miami Herald reports.
For a while, western Colorado seemed recession-proof. The oil and gas industry thrived, unemployment was low and wages were good. Then the boom busted. The economy crumpled and families lost their homes to foreclosure leaving empty houses and apartments; shelters overflowed just as the coldest winter in eight decades swept in.
It was then that Mike Stahl, CEO of Hilltop Community Services, saw two pregnant women entering a shelter. When he realized that they would be forced to care for their newborns there, his heart ached.
How would you react if your teenager wanted you to sell your house and donate half the money to charity? Kevin Salwen of Atlanta, Georgia, said he was in shock when his 14-year-old Hannah suggested just that, and then wouldn’t let it go.
It all started in 2006 when they were in the car together one morning. Hannah noticed a man driving a Mercedes on one side of the street and another man holding a sign asking for money for food on the other. It really bothered her; she knew what she was seeing just wasn’t right and something stirred in her head, heart and soul.
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