Everyday Heroes
7-Year-Old with “Incurable” Condition Overcomes Her Diagnosis
When Evie-Mae Geurts was just a few months old, she was registered as blind. It’s a difficult prognosis for any parent to hear, that their child will live a more challenging life than others. It’s hundreds of times more difficult when that diagnosis is compounded with...
Anonymous Donor Pays Off Tuition for Graduating Class at Wiley College
Graduation is an equally exciting and terrifying time for many college students. While the time should be spent celebrating the massive achievement, many are fraught with worries of the future—namely, how they are going to overcome the debt they’ve accumulated. Wiley...
Bartender Saves Family from Rip Current
Cape Town, South Africa, is well-known as a tourist destination in part for its gorgeous beaches. People travel to the area for its nature, its culture, and maybe to end the day with a drink on the water. That is precisely how Clair Gardiner and her daughter, Arya,...
“Landfill of the Future” Turns Farming Waste into Products
Most don’t look at a landfill and see potential for anything—especially biological landfills. With no discernable use, fish, farm, and forest waste is usually dumped back in the sea or forest. As we see the effects of our impact on the environment more and more every...
Students Write Letters to Help Animals Get Adopted
Adopting an animal from a shelter is universally seen as a positive deed one can do for their community, but it doesn’t come without its own problems. Younger animals are swept in and out of shelters. A bright-eyed puppy or kitten obviously has its appeal—to have a...
From Cards to a Full Collection: How Ken Griffey Jr. Saved a Man’s Life
One can never know precisely what hides behind the doors of one’s home. People everywhere have their own hobbies and idiosyncrasies. Some people knit. Others do puzzles. Others keep one of the largest collections of Ken Griffey Jr. sports memorabilia. Maybe many don’t...
Celebrity Giving
Selena Gomez Uses her Birthday to Raise Mental Health Awareness
For most people, birthdays are a day to celebrate one’s life with their favorite foods and favorite people. They receive gifts fulfilling needs they might not have even known they had and go to bed thinking about what their next trip around the sun will be like....
MacKenzie Scott Donates $4.2 Billion for Pandemic Relief
Upon her divorce with one of the wealthiest men in the world, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott became the wealthiest woman in the world with over 50 billion dollars to her name. Scott was immediately viewed under a microscope as many millionaires and...
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune Raises Money for Charities
Credit: CBS Televised game shows have become a staple of American programming over the past fifty years. Shows like Jeopardy, The Price is Right, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? have seen many iterations-- whether with a new host or new element-- but they have...
Miami City Ballet Offers Free Online Classes for Dancers Stuck at Home
Credit: Arquitectonica The Miami City Ballet is an internationally renowned ballet company. Young dancers across the world who wish to someday be part of a professional dance company look to the Miami City Ballet for guidance. The company has always offered classes...
Exclusive Interview: Robin Harrington, Leading Los Angeles Talent Agent
Robin Harrington is a co-founder of Lemon Lime agency, a talent agency that represents actors and models for the commercial industry. With her unique start in the '90s, Harrington has cultivated a unique clientele that can be seen across major deals such as Coca-Cola,...
How Steve Martin, Diane Keaton and Other Stars Made “Father of the Bride 3” From Their Own Homes
Credit: Celebrity Life With most people sheltering in place at home due to the global pandemic (especially in the early half of the year), people across the world have had to find creative ways to keep busy. Some people have taken up a hobby. Others have decided to...
Power Philanthropists
POWER PHILANTHROPIST PROFILE: Rabbi Levi Shemtov
Some people grow into their philanthropic nature. Employment with great pay leads people to wonder what they are to do with their money. They start donating here and there. As they get involved with these circles, many find a cause they are passionate about and devote...
Power Philanthropist Profile: Lyda Hill
Dallas is well-known for its bustling dining scene, its sports, and its skyline. A lesser known, thriving industry, however, is one that many wouldn’t expect: philanthropy. Though not readily thought about by the average person, as the third largest city in Texas and...
Power Philanthropist Profile: Peggy Rajski
Credit: IMDB Over the course of the last 50 years a new, more positive light has been cast on the LGBTQIA+ community. With education and better representation in the media, we are not only seeing most support for these people on an interpersonal level, but in the form...
Power Philanthropist Profile: Joshua Williams
Credit: Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania You don't have to be a billionaire businessman to be a philanthropist. You don't have to be a politician, and you don't have to be born into wealth. Philanthropy is born from the desire to make a difference,...
Power Philanthropist Profile: Wes Moore
Credit: Us Weekly When one thinks of who a philanthropist might be, we imagine the type we see on television: a person who walked into a family business or came upon a large sum of money. Perhaps this person has actually worked to maintain their wealth, perhaps they...
Power Philanthropist Profile: Agnes Gund
Credit: Sotheby's Wealth produces the image of a certain breed of human that seems so distant from most of us, yet is distinct in our collective picture. High fashion, poise, elegance—nose turned away from those below them as they attend their galas in favor of some...