David Hutmacher of Marietta, Ga., wrote of the generosity he received from co-workers when he became seriously ill three years ago. After three hospital stays, including two surgeries, he had used up all of his vacation and sick leave. “It was the end of the year and my last paycheck at the first of December …
A simple act of kindness on a hot day nearly 50 years ago left a lasting memory for Dan Sullivan. “There is hardly anything more boring than traveling in a military convoy,” Sullivan writes. “In late 1955, a deuce-and-a-half truck filled with a dozen GIs and I were crawling across northern Iowa. It was hot, …
Peter Strupp of Boston remembers being “flat broke” his senior year at the University of Wisconsin. When he could no longer afford the rent at his fraternity, he found refuge in a campus Christian fellowship house. Strupp would sneak into the kitchen to take food bought by his fellow tenants. “Inevitably the month came that …
Sometimes witnessing a good deed leaves a lasting impression. Donna Delfino Dugay of Harper Woods, Mich., remembers a day in California when she was 11 years old, and her parents took their six children for a special day at the beach. Donna’s mother brought a picnic lunch — fried chicken and her famous potato salad …
Amy Scharman of Mapleton, Utah, remembered the Christmas after her parents divorced. Her mother was raising 13 kids with no child support. The holiday was looking pretty grim. “It was about dusk on Christmas Eve and we heard a knock on the back door,” Scharman says. When they opened it, no one was there. But …
Beverly Jordan witnessed an extraordinary act of generosity after Hurricane Andrew slammed into South Florida in 1992, leaving a wide path of destruction in its path. Jordan, a nurse, volunteered to go door to door in Miami delivering emergency relief. Her relief van pulled up to a house that was nothing but a shell. She …
[vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FCxuVSkT7k&rel=0&showinfo=0″] Like most 8-year-olds, Myles Eckert was already dreaming up ways he could spend a $20 bill he had just discovered laying in a Cracker Barrel parking lot earlier this month. “I kind of wanted to get a video game, but then I decided not to,” the child recounted to CBS News. That’s because …
A McDonald’s customer in Florida wanted to pay it forward at the drive-thru window with a “Merry Christmas,” not “Happy Holidays.” McDonald’s cashier Marisabel Figueroa Lopez was working the drive-thru window last Wednesday when she says a woman drove up and told the employee that she wanted to pay for the car behind her. “She …
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According to a recent survey taken by the National School Supply and Equipment Association, teachers pay for 77 percent of the supplies needed in the classroom. RedditGifts wanted to change that. The program matches donators with teachers to ship them the supplies that they need to focus on teaching their kids without worrying about a …
[vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brzjeICcIt0&rel=0&showinfo=0″] Mason Wartman runs a pizza shop in Philadelphia appropriately named Wartman’s. In an effort to help out homeless people in the city, which is a serious issue, he hatched a plan to allow customers to spend an extra dollar to prepay for a slice of pizza, then put a Post-It on the wall. …
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