Sometimes It Just Takes a Penny

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June 23, 2011 a project of CharityFocus Great acts are made up of small deeds. - Lao Tzu - Sometimes It Just Takes a Penny In this real-life kindness story, a man inspires generosity in a homeless woman after being approached by her for money. Having just heard good news in a friend's life, he offers to buy food for her and shares his inspiration with the homeless lady: "Something nice happened to my friend recently, after a lot of struggles. When you came in, I thought that I should keep that chain of goodness going and do something for someone else. My act is small compared to my friend's joy, but still, the love continues. You know what I mean? We have to keep the chain of love going." After he buys her some food, the homeless lady consciously picks out a coin from her change, and drops a penny in the tip-jar! "You kept the chain of love going," he states. "Yes, I did," she affirms. { read more } Be The Change Look for an everyday moment to turn into an opportunity to serve in a small way. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The World's Happiest People 5 Classic Commencement Speeches Bell Curve of Empathy Over Ten Thousand People Attend His Funeral DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 106,499 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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Soap That Saves Lives

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June 22, 2011 a project of CharityFocus It's not good enough for us to complain about what other people aren't doing for us. It's important that we all band together, think of an idea and pursue it. - Derreck Kayongo - Soap That Saves Lives Perhaps he noticed because his father was a soapmaker in Uganda. When Derreck Kayongo learned how much soap was thrown away by hoteliers in the US, and that 2 million children die each year due to a lack of santitation, he decided to do something about it. He started Global Soap Project. Volunteers across the U.S. collect the hotel soaps and ship them to the group's warehouse in Atlanta. On Saturdays, Atlanta volunteers assemble there to clean, reprocess and package the bars. Then, they work with partner organizations to ship and distribute the soap directly to people who need it -- for free. Thanks to this CNN Hero, more than 100,000 bars have been gifted to communities in nine countries. { read more } Submitted by: Fran Korten Be The Change Tell a local hotel about the Global Soap Project. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News A 15-Year-Old's Bucket List Goes Viral 25 Visionaries Changing Your World Leap of Faith Thinking Outside the Human Mind DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 106,530 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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Measuring the Wisdom of a Crowd

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June 21, 2011 a project of CharityFocus No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. - H. E. Luccock - Measuring the Wisdom of a Crowd The "intelligence" of a group can be measured, according to a new study, and it has little to do with the brain power of its individual members. What makes a team more intelligent has more to do with the group's interactions. More equal participation and greater social awareness on the part of its members are the key factors in predicting a group's intelligence. "It really calls into question our notion of what intelligence is," said study lead author Anita Williams Woolley of Carnegie Mellon. "It's been thought about as something that resides in one person." Instead, three key social factors were correlated with group intelligence: how good the group was at distributing turn-taking, how socially sensitive the group members were, and how many women were on each team. { read more } Be The Change In your next meeting, explore appropriate ways of eliciting the group's wisdom. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Students Debut Life-Saving Infant Warmer New Way to Watch your Blood Pressure Six New Planets: Mini-Neptunes Found Around Sunlike Star If Santa Claus Was An Engineer... DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 106,545 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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Why Gratitude Is Good

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June 20, 2011 a project of CharityFocus We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. - Thornton Wilder - Why Gratitude Is Good "Count your blessings," we're often told -- but what good does that do us? Plenty, according to Robert Emmons, the world's leading scientific expert on gratitude. After a decade of research, Dr. Emmons has found that people who practice gratitude have stronger immune systems, feel happier and more optimistic, and are more generous and compassionate. In this thorough article from Greater Good magazine, Dr. Emmons explores why gratitude does us so much good, brings to light the obstacles to practicing gratitude, and offers steps to leading a more grateful life. { read more } Submitted by: S. Fassberg Be The Change Count your blessings. For inspiration, a short passage by Pierre Pradervand, from "The Gentle Art of Blessing:" { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Squeeze Out Your Creative Juices 8 Weeks to a Better Brain Meditation More Effective Than Morphine? Outdoors and Out of Reach: Studying the Brain DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 106,523 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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The Reading Promise: An Extraordinary Father-Daughter Story

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June 19, 2011 a project of CharityFocus Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. - Hazel Rochman - The Reading Promise: An Extraordinary Father-Daughter Story When Alice Ozma was in the fourth grade, her family was going through a rough patch. Her parents had just split up, and her older sister had recently left for college. Ozma was suddenly spending a lot more time alone with her dad, Jim Brozina, an elementary school librarian. So Ozma and her father made a pledge: to read together every single night for 100 days. But after 100 days, they just kept going. Their streak ultimately lasted nine years. 3,218 consecutive days -- spanning from Ozma's fourth-grade year to her first day of college. Their commitment to reading and to each other are the subject of Ozma's debut book, The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared. { read more } Be The Change On this Fathers Day, share your gratitude with someone who has supported your life journey. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The Miracle Birth When a Homeless Man Used Twitter 8 Things That Are Better Than Free An Indicator of Genuine Progress? DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 106,522 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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