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Good Deeds
Los Angeles Homeless Shelter Names Wing After Alex Trebek Following Donation The Jeopardy! host recently gave $100,000 to Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission.
By Halle Kiefer
adam driver pet detective
Oct. 2, 2019
Big Man Searching for Little Dog Adam Driver is asking for help finding his director’s runaway pup.
By Rebecca Alter
always shopping
Oct. 4, 2018
An Everyday Tote Bag That Benefits a Good Cause MZ Wallace and Lingua Franca are donating 100 percent proceeds to She Should Run.
By Diana Tsui
Drake the Good Witch Descends on Miami The rapper is buying people’s groceries, donating to a high school, and paying a student’s college tuition.
By Madeleine Aggeler
Chrissy Teigen Offers to Pay NDA Fine After This Gymnast Speaks Out About Abuse Teigen said she’d cover the $100,000 fine McKayla Maroney reportedly faces for speaking out.
By Lisa Ryan
what’s good
Aug. 21, 2017
By Kathleen Hou
Beyoncé’s Formation Scholarship Will Send 4 Women to College Howard University, Spelman College, Berklee College of Music, and Parsons School of Design are all participating.
By Dee Lockett
best career day ever man
Mar. 24, 2017
By Kaitlin Fontana
Chance the Rapper to Donate $1 Million to Chicago Public Schools The move comes after Chance expressed frustration with the Illinois governor’s lack of leadership on education.
By Jordan Crucchiola
Comedy’s Hottest New Venue Is a Nursing Home
It was Karaoke Night at the nursing home and things were rolling right along – rolling as smoothly as the wheels on a freshly-oiled […]
By Lauren Maul
alexander hamiltips
Mar. 20, 2016
By Sean Fitz-Gerald
Kendrick Listened to High-School Kids’ Poems “They got heart, they got intellect, they got punch lines.”
By Dee Lockett
When It Comes to Good Deeds, It’s Better to Think Small The slightly selfish way of doing nice things for people.
By Melissa Dahl
KFC Donates $30,000 to Family of 3-Year-Old Kid Booted From Restaurant The family says they were told the girl’s scars were “disrupting” business.
By Hugh Merwin
Restaurant Owner Responds to Customer’s ‘Show More Skin’ The customer didn’t specify which kind of skins he wanted to see.
By Hugh Merwin
Pay It Forward
Dec. 13, 2013
Kindest Coffee Shop in the Universe Fights Crime With Holiday Cheer “It’s the holiday season, it gets cold and life can get tough. But don’t give up on people.”
By Belle Cushing
Good Deeds
Sept. 10, 2013
MAD Chefs Help Rebuild Mogadishu Restaurant Targeted by Suicide Bombs Suicide bombers have tried to destroy Jama’s restaurant, but he is undeterred.
By Belle Cushing
Cronut Holes
Sept. 9, 2013
Cronut Holes Will Debut in Shake Shack Concretes Now you know where all those cronut holes have been hiding out all this time.
By Hugh Merwin
Union Pool Holding Event to Benefit Devlin Family Proceeds will be used to establish a scholarship for the children of the late restaurateur.
By Hugh Merwin
The Beauty School for Former Sex Slaves They escaped the brothels of Cambodia; now these young survivors are learning a new trade.
By Abigail Pesta
making the sausage
Feb. 22, 2012
Polone: The False Circular Logic Behind Hollywood’s Resistance to Black Entertainment There are three reasons why there are so few African-American-centered movies and TV shows. Two are crap, one can be fixed.
By Gavin Polone
Bobby McFerrin’s Son Teaches Blind Students to Beatbox At the Lavelle School for the Blind in the north Bronx, students are learning to beatbox from Taylor McFerrin, a teacher with percussive pedigree.
By Patrick Huguenin
reasons to love new york
Jan. 14, 2010
By Jessica Pressler
reasons to love new york
Jan. 12, 2010
By Chris Rovzar
Feed the Needy From the Comfort of Your Phone A couple of nonprofits are using technology to make foodie philanthropy easier this holiday season.
By Daniel Maurer
NBC Boldly Embraces Diversity And they want you to know it!
By Mark Graham
Ripert Gives Back Eric Ripert hopes to donate an estimated $100,000 to City Harvest this year.
By Daniel Maurer