Surprising Age Group Leads in Charitable Giving

The holidays are here, and plenty of people are thinking about the gifts they hope to receive. However, many Americans are also considering what they ...

Olympic Sprinter Helps Fallen Competitor

Silinia Pha Aphay was sprinting in the preliminary Olympic rounds of the 100-meter dash event, when something unexpected happened.

Aphay, who ran for her ...

Celebrities Help Sponsor Underfunded Olympians

At a moment when Veronica Fraley should’ve been focused only on the task ahead of her, instead she was preoccupied with issues thousands of miles ...

Helping the Homeless One Bike at a Time

Lack of transportation is an obstacle many homeless people face in rural areas without public buses as well as in big cities designed for cars. Without ...

Barbers Learn Life Saving Skill

Keisha House is a nurse practitioner and assistant director of the Substance Use Disorder Center of Excellence at Rush University Medical Center. House ...

TV Cop Stops Filming to Help Lost Child

Mariska Hargitay has been playing the same fictional cop role for over 500 episodes of television, spanning over 25 years. Hargitay plays detective Olivia ...

Billionaire Secretly Gives Away Fortune

Charles Feeney was raised by working-class parents who struggled during the Depression to pay a $32 monthly mortgage. He served in the Air Force and got ...

Former NFL Receiver Intervenes During Elderly Assault

During Braylon Edwards’ career playing receiver in college and the NFL, he lived with a heightened sense of spatial awareness and kinetic readiness. ...

A Stranger’s Words Saved a Woman’s Life

A young woman named Trieste Belmont was struggling with depression. Her grandmother had just passed, and she was going through a dramatic break-up. She ...

Bankrupt Grace

Daniel Skeel serves on the faculty of UPenn Law School, specializing in bankruptcy law. In recent years he has been increasingly bold in bringing his ...