9-Year-Old Bullied Over Ears Gets Corrective Surgery In NYC
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- June 14, 2012
Dr. Tom Romo's Little Baby Face Foundation has made it their mission to "provide pro-bono surgical services for children with facial birth defects from extremely complex to not so complex." The Foundation helps children in need of surgery who can't afford it. So when a young boy with big ears – who got teased continually
READ MOREHarvard-bound teen graduates HS, starts fund for homeless kids
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- June 9, 2012
Dawn Loggins – the Harvard-bound N.C. high school student who was abandoned by her parents and doubled as the school's janitor – has graduated and set up a fund to help other homeless kids. Dawn spent much of high school homeless and served as a school custodian both before and after classes. She graduated June
READ MORE‘Purple Heart Homes’ For Wounded Vets
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- May 30, 2012
Two veterans build modified houses for war heroes with disabilities, saying "it's up to the community to take ownership of the people who go to fight and die for us." ABC News, 5/28/2012
READ MOREBully victim’s poem prompts healing after 25 years
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- May 24, 2012
Lynda Frederick's poem about being bullied in a California school 25 years ago has brought her former classmates to tears. Now, they're creating a scholarship fund in her name and have raised $800 to fly her back to California for a class reunion. This will give her a chance to visit her father's grave, which
READ MOREMan donates Kmart items worth $20k
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- May 22, 2012
The latest "Making a Difference" segment on NBC News profiles a Kentucky businessman who spent just under $20,000 at a Kmart close-out sale and then generously donated the goods to a local charity. NBC Nightly News, 5/18/2012
READ MORESmall town bank puts people before profits
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- May 17, 2012
The small Bank of Cattaraugus in western New York has held its community together and supported local businesses and families for 30 years. Its owner, Patrick J. Cullen, remains unimpressed with the exotic financial engineering of bigger institutions. The Bank of Cattaraugus is a family business, with Cullen's wife Joan and daughter Colleen also working
READ MORECutter rescued graduating cadet as a 6-year-old boy
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- May 15, 2012
Upon graduating from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Orlando Morel, eternally grateful and inspired by the Coast Guard's role in his own rescue, will serve on a cutter out of Florida whose mission will include migrant interdiction in the very waters where Morel was rescued nearly two decades ago. At that time, Morel was a six-year-old
READ MOREBuilders Take Up American-Made Homes Challenge
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- May 9, 2012
Based on the claim that if every builder buys just 5 percent more American-made materials, 220,000 jobs will be created, builders around the country have decided to use 5 percent more American products. Some builders have gone even further and decided to create all-American homes, which are now being built or have been completed in
READ MORESeniors receive ‘wish of a lifetime’
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- May 3, 2012
A former NFL player and Olympian who founded the nonprofit Wish of a Lifetime is making dreams come true for senior citizens, such as the 94-year-old WWII veteran who got to return to France with his French wife and visit the cemetery where his war buddies were buried. NBC News, 4/30/2012
READ MOREGlobal Medical Relief Fund still going strong
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- April 26, 2012
Elissa Montanti, a New Yorker worried about children injured and disfigured in war, started an organization and has now brought more than 150 children to America for treatment, all of them cared for by doctors, nurses and hospitals volunteering their time. Thanks to increased donations, her organization is now able to provide the children with
READ MORETeacher of the year to beleaguered educators: Stand tall
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- April 24, 2012
Rebecca Mieliwocki, a seventh grade English teacher from Burbank, Calif., will be honored Tuesday at the White House by President Obama as the 2012 Teacher of the Year. On deciding to become a teacher, she says, "I made a list of the things I needed in my dream job: Be your own boss, work with
READ MOREWhat We Can Learn From a Young Boy’s Cardboard Arcade
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- April 13, 2012
The story of Caine Monroy, the 9-year-old who built his own elaborate boardwalk-style arcade out of cardboard and other scavenged material at his father’s auto parts business in Los Angeles, has gone viral, capturing the hearts of millions of people all over the world. Donations have been pouring in from all over to pay for
READ MOREDisney club espousing kids to make real differences
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- April 10, 2012
Two teenagers from Morehouse Parish, Louisiana organized a club in February that has been well received among young people in their community, with the aim being to get kids active and to make a positive difference in the lives of others. The teens' hope was that friends would come together to explore different worlds by
READ MOREThey love Lou C’s: Boutique changing lives of women with cancer
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- April 9, 2012
Lou Covington, owner of Lou C's Boutique, says, “Cancer is a terrible thing, but it also draws a lot of miracles. It pulls people together. I want this to be the best part of their experience that it can be. I want to make it a good time instead of dreading it. A lot of
READ MOREAward-Winning Teacher Uses Medical Crisis To Instill Life’s Lessons
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- April 2, 2012
In 1999, teacher Nicole Waicunas suffered from a brain hemorrhage and was told by doctors that she would never teach again. Years later, she is teaching English at Edwin O. Smith High School in Storrs, CT and is one of 10 teachers across the nation honored with the 2012 Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award for
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