Phil Heckels is 38 years old and comes from Worthing, South England. This Brit has found himself rising to internet stardom from what might seem like one of the silliest reasons; he tried to help his son with a thank-you…
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Dad’s Adorable Amature Animal Portraits Raise Thousands For Charity – GNSOTD Fri, Oct. 23rd 2020
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Girl, 4, Starts Making Christmas Care Packages for Needy Kids After Having Bad Dream – GNSOTD Thur, Oct. 15th 2020
Four-year-old Pippa Jackson, of St. Austell, Cornwall, England, has decided that she wants to help out other kids who are less fortunate than herself. It comes from a bad dream she had one night. She dreamt about children waking up…
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Woman Raises Money For COVID Relief By Climbing Colorado Mountains – GNSOTD Tue, Oct. 6th 2020
Brittney Woodrum had a lot of plans for 2020. The University of Denver graduate student was going to travel the world and continue her work for the various NGO’s she’d been working for before graduate school. However, when the coronavirus…
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Woman Donates Oxygen Masks For Often Forgotten Victims Of Fire – GNSOTD Tues, Sept. 22nd 2020
Inspiration can come from anywhere, for one woman from Anaheim California, it came from a four legged friend. Emma Zen, a Great Dane/Labrador retriever mix, was just 4 months old when firefighters rescued her from the devastating wildfires in Southern…
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Billionaire Goes “Broke” By Giving – GNSOTD Fri, Sept. 18th 2020
For years, billionaire Charles Feeney had one goal in mind — to give away his massive fortune and live the rest of his life “broke.” Now, the 89-year-old has fulfilled his wish. For those unfamiliar with the name like I…
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Ice Bucket Challenge Helps Fund Potential ALS Medication – GNSOTD Wed, Sept 16th 2020
The internet has featured many challenges over various platforms, several of which have been for charitable causes, one of the most well known is the Ice Bucket Challenge that raised more than $200 million worldwide for ALS research. Recently it…
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11-Year-Old Helps Families By Donating Diapers – GNSTOD Thur, Sept 10th 2020
Eleven-year-old Cartier Carey, of Hampton, Virginia, noticed a shortage of diapers in stores during the pandemic and wanted to help. “There was no diapers at all and I was like, ‘Oh, people are having babies so I should help [them]…
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Kitchener-Waterloo Food Bank Sees Substantial Donations – GNSOTD Fri, Sept 4th 2020
The Food Bank of Waterloo Region says that more than 34,500 people have struggled to put food on the table during the pandemic. Saying there are so many unknowns about the fall, the question of will there be a second…
School Parents Pay It Forward In Texas – GNSOTD Wed, Aug 12th 2020
When someone does something good, something out of the blue, there’s a tendency to want to pay it forward. Well, That’s what happened with two elementary schools, separated by 25 miles, and in separate districts, in Texas. Keller Independant School…
Kitchener Teens Help Church Build Homes For Homeless – GNSOTD Thur, Aug 6th 2020
Many Ontario teens had their summer plans ruined by the COVID-19 Coronavirus, but a number of them in Kitchener found an educational, productive, and helpful way to spend their summer. The courtyard outside St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in downtown…
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