Vancouver's Pop-Up Shelters

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November 22, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer - Vancouver's Pop-Up Shelters A Vancouver-based advertising company teamed up with a grassroots advocacy group to extend kindness to the city's homeless population in a beautifully creative way. "During the day, the [bus] benches serve as seating for those waiting for the bus to arrive. At night, the front lifts up and out to create an overhang." Acts of kindness like these stand out against the backdrop of many cities making it harder for the homeless population to survive. Read on to learn more about this innovation that merges kindness and creativity! { read more } Be The Change In what way can you use what you do for a living to help others in a small but meaningful way? How can you make this part of your daily or weekly practice, so it becomes a part of your life? COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 24 Acts of Kindness To Restore Faith In Humanity There's More to Life Than Being Happy 15 Serious Games Aiming to Change the World The Science of Love 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From A Moving Letter from Fiona Apple 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People What School Doesn't Teach You: How To Learn DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,971 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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Public Art: A Path To Safer, Stronger Neighborhoods

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November 21, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace What art can do is start conversations. - Gina Reichert - Public Art: A Path To Safer, Stronger Neighborhoods Art that merges with the landscape brings human presence, safety, and physical activity into the city's spaces. This kind of art triggers more than one sense: it is something you move in, touch, and, in some cases, even eat. In Detroit, a spread-out city of single-family homes that is difficult to traverse and pockmarked by vacancy, these artistic interventions are an uncommonly powerful nexus of community life. They create welcoming traffic, as well as opportunities for neighbors to interact and work together. It is for a city with a future. { read more } Be The Change Do something to add an artistic touch to a community space in your life today. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 24 Acts of Kindness To Restore Faith In Humanity The Beautiful Fragility of Language The Difference Between Listening & Hearing On Navigating Stuckness 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From What School Doesn't Teach You: How To Learn Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World Ladder to the Pleiades DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,969 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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7 Ideas For Compassionate Communities

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November 20, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. - Eric Hoffer - 7 Ideas For Compassionate Communities Are you looking for inspiring ideas to take action on some of society's broadest and most challenging issues? From addressing homelessness to providing medical care (in exchange for a song), look no further than this list of 7 revolutionary ideas from Yes Magazine. { read more } Be The Change Pick one idea from this list to learn more about and see how you might get involved in your community. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The College Course That's Changing Lives The Difference Between Listening & Hearing On Navigating Stuckness Relationships Are More Important than Ambition 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently Resilience: The Opposite of Depression Maya Angelou On Resilience and Children DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,950 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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Riders For Health: Motorcycles That Save Lives

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November 19, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace Though the road's been rocky, it sure feels good to me. - -Bob Marley- - Riders For Health: Motorcycles That Save Lives Solving community problems requires more than newer and better technology for the poor. It requires something more radical than that--that we rehumanize the poor. People require not only new technologies to solve some of the biggest challenges in rural health and development, they require basic technologies--like transportation for the cadres of health care workers and others. Riders for Health realized this and is changing lives--their own and others--through their simple realization that transportation is not a privilege but a necessity. { read more } Be The Change Take a quiet moment and share this story with a child or friend today. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love The Science of Love On Navigating Stuckness A Moving Letter from Fiona Apple 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently Power of Place: Photos From Around the World Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World The Generosity Paradox DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,927 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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