Author: Matthew Reisz

  Last spring, Morgan Marsh McGlone started a virtual lemonade stand to raise money for a local food charity. The eight-year-old from Wisconsin not only brought in $53-thousand for her cause, she caught the attention of Biden’s inaugural team. They invited her to give a virtual speech last night in a program called “Celebrating America” hosted by […]

A seventh grade literacy teacher in Iowa stepped in to fill a need he saw with students who are doing remote learning. Nate Evans noticed some kids in online classes didn’t have a desk to do school work on, so he started building them for them. His project has become “Woodworking with a Purpose” and he now […]

  A small business in Charlotte, North Carolina, is spreading happiness to lonely residents at nursing homes. Tiffany Donovan started “Adopt a Grandparent” where people can send a bouquet of balloons to a local nursing home for $25. People are loving it, with over 400 orders placed in the first few days, and the balloons are bringing […]

  An elderly Utah man has been making beautiful quilts to give away for 15 years. Brent Rushton, affectionately known as “Papa” has donated hundreds of his quilts to “wrap people in need with love.” The 80-year-old spends about six hours a day quilting and gives them to refugees, shelters and veterans. Source: KUTV A Missouri business owner […]

  A retired man in Maryland has been fixing people’s bikes for free during the pandemic.  He started in April and has fixed over 650 bikes since then.  The only type of payment he’ll accept is baked goods. A dog wandered out onto a frozen lake in England on Saturday, and fell through the ice.  So a random […]

A high school student and her younger brother are making care packages for isolated seniors. Hita Gupta, 16, and 10-year-old Divit have sent out nearly 100-thousand handwritten cards and packages to nursing homes. She was inspired to do it after not being able to volunteer at a nursing home anymore after COVID hit and knowing the loneliness the […]

  A handyman in the U.K. has spent over $75,000 of his own money fixing people’s plumbing and heating issues for FREE during the pandemic.  He mostly does it for the elderly or disabled.  And now people online have donated over $25,000 to keep it going. A couple in Minnesota are doing their part to help a […]

  A 13-year-old girl won an essay contest put on by Petco that came with a $50,000 grand prize.  And now she’s donating ALL of it to her local cat shelter. Alina Bardwell and a group of other University of Michigan students started a free online tutoring service for K-12 students in need. MiTutor was created to […]