This 6-year-old girl is taking “dance like nobody’s watching” to a whole new level. A video of Loren Patterson dancing at her children’s choir performance is going viral. As you watch the video, remember what it means to be in the moment. Find the youth in your heart and get out there and dance to your inner music.
Mary Frates has always adored doing word searches, but after dementia set in as she aged, the 86-year-old found herself unable to participate in her favorite pastime. Saddened by his grandmother’s inability to tackle word searches, 17-year-old John Frates came up with a perfect – and simple – solution. The teen from Needham, Massachusetts created a… Continue reading When Grandma With Alzheimer’s Can’t Do Her Puzzles, Teen Comes Up With Perfect Solution
Chicago Cubs fans aren’t just die-hard enthusiasts – they are also compassionate spectators as well. Lauren Hinkston Hintzsche and her husband were at the playoff game between the Washington Nationals and the Chicago Cubs yesterday when they witnessed a heartwarming exchange between the people sitting next to them.
On Thursday, November 24, 2016, The Bowery Mission served Thanksgiving Day meals to more than 7,800 men, women, and children in all five boroughs of New York. At the Mission’s flagship location, over 650 volunteers prepared traditional turkey dinners and served over 1,700 guests in the Mission’s century-old chapel, with music and festive decorations for the holiday.
Over the course of the day, our volunteers worked hard to generously serve traditional Thanksgiving meals to our guests from 8 am to 7 pm.
On Thanksgiving Day alone, The Bowery Mission serves eight times as many meals as we do on an average day. Private donations from thousands of supporters make this all possible.
The Walk to End Hunger is a family-friendly 5K fun walk presented by The Mosaic Company. Held on Thanksgiving morning in the Mall of America, it’s a great way to start your holiday off right – giving back before you give thanks!
Thank you for participating in the Walk to End Hunger! Click on an Organization below to support.
Thanksgiving Food Urgently Needed!
This Thanksgiving, many families on Long Island will not be able to afford food for a full Thanksgiving meal.
Help meet the need by donating Frozen Turkeys, Canned Goods, Stuffing, & More.
Frozen Turkeys Are Especially Needed
Here is a link to a list of needed items. PDF List
Lighthouse Mission box trucks go out stocked with emergency food, clothes & other necessities. At each outdoor location, staff and volunteers unload and set up the boxes and bags of food and clothes. Each morning there is a brief volunteer orientation meeting.
Fighting hunger is more than providing meals. At Island Harvest, we know that we also must fight the root causes that lead to hunger.
So, even as we provide needed food to people in need, we also provide support and referrals that help them to overcome the barriers that lead to food insecurity. We help Long Islanders to address educational and employment needs … and meet challenges in getting access to healthcare and leading healthy lives … and battle problems in finding or maintaining good housing.
Scrolls of Hope provides a warmhearted way for individuals or groups to personally reach out to people in need with continuous messages of support and encouragement.
Through Scrolls of Hope, you can help improve the well-being of a child, patient or senior citizen who is in a hospital, nursing home, or hospice. Send them an uplifting message of goodwill written by you. Your personal message is imprinted on beautiful scroll paper, rolled-up and sent to them in a collectible vintage bottle. Every scroll of hope is sent with a caring gift to the establishment of your choice.
There are also special programs for soldiers, homeless and disaster victims. With these programs, your 
personalized message in a bottle will be included in a support package that contains useful items to help make a difficult life easier
Millenials may get a bad rap for being the generation introduced to smartphones, but these three Polish teens are a perfect example of how youngsters are just as kind and compassionate as everyone else. Last December, Szymon, Wojtek, and Marcin were wandering down a street in Nysa – a city in southern Poland – when they a homeless man a blanket and tucked him in.
Three boys were praised by their city mayor after they were spotted on CCTV taking a duvet to a homeless man sleeping on a bench.
The trio of good Samaritans, Szymon, Wojtek, and Marcin, were rewarded by the city of Nysa, in Poland, for their kind act, each given a smartwatch as a thank you.
In the clip, the three boys are seen walking through the town center with a bag carrying the huge cover between them.
They approach the bench, stop, unload their gift and wrap it around the sleeping homeless man.
By Rebecca Everett | For NJ.com
The shelter Joseph Badame built and his accumulation of supplies — enough so that 100 people could live there — was Badame’s life’s work. He and his wife built the place, with its subterranean living area and lead-lined bomb shelter, along with outbuildings. For forty years, they filled them with everything they’d need, from coal furnaces and kerosene refrigerators to barrels of food and other supplies.
Mr. Badame lost his wife in 2019 and now he’s losing it all now, after the bank foreclosed on his property. “I’m losing this house,” he said, looking at the building from his driveway Monday. It’s a blow to a man who is still heartbroken over losing his wife. “This will never be a survival dwelling for Phyliss or myself.” But, he admits, his passion for creating the perfect shelter has diminished since his wife’s death, and there are few family members and friends left to worry about saving.
Badame decided that instead of selling the food at the sale, he would ship it all to Puerto Rico. It will feed people who desperately need it, even if it’s not the people they originally intended. “I’ve lost everything. My wife, my house, everything,” he said. “The last thing I was going to lose is the food. It was going to be trashed.”
Finding his purpose in getting the food and supplies to Puerto Rico has lifted his spirits. But on top of that, he also found a kind of adopted family. He moved the RV he’s living in into the yard of Barber and Martinez-Barber.
Contribute to the ‘Scrolls of Hope’ Disaster Relief Package. The creation of this package is to inspire groups and individuals to pool their resources together to help a victim of disaster get back on their feet.
Each package contains a variety of items that will help in most emergency situations. It includes basic personal hygiene items, towels, a blanket and a pillow to help with general care and comfort. For more extreme situations, we have included an emergency shelter, water-holding container, flashlight and a rain poncho. To pass the time, there are playing cards, game books, crayons and writing accessories. To help carry these items there is a small sports backpack and a large convenient duffle bag.
Contributions range from $1.00 to a complete package. As contributions are received they are pooled together to assemble and send Disaster Relief Packages to those in need. If you would like more information please visit us at www.scrollsofhope.com or go directly to view the Victims of Disaster page.
While most people may not feel compelled to run towards a car engulfed in smoke, Staff Sergeant Cory Hinkle says that he “did not think twice”. Hinkle our hero, who is an Iraq combat veteran, says that he was on his way home from the National Guard base in Charlotte, North Carolina when he witnessed a head-on car… Continue reading The Heart of a Hero
A chain of profound events I witnessed last night on a prosperous street in Santa Barbara made me think it must have been part of another Merry Pranksters video, but there were no hidden cameras around and no ulterior motives for these spontaneous acts of kindness. Homeless people were on my mind at 7:00 p.m. as… Continue reading A Chain of Profound Kindness
For nine days celebrity chef José Andrés has been in Puerto Rico cooking and delivering thousands of daily meals for hungry survivors of Hurricane Maria-and he’s only getting started. “We have big dreams, because people have big needs,” the Spanish-American chef told his Twitter followers in a video update. Today alone he says the crew from… Continue reading Celebrity chef José Andrés: People Helping People in Need
Messages like “Home, Sweet Home” are fairly common in the world of needlepoint, but for some homeless people, homes-and sweet messages are hard to come by. That’s why one Australian woman resolved to use her sewing skills to help provide warmth and comfort to those in need. As part of her New Year’s resolution… Continue reading Home is where the Heart is
