People Doing Good

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Two photos side-by-side. On the left, a woman named Lianne Kirkman wears a puffer coat and a pink beanie. On the right is a map of the United Kingdom with a number of stops pinned.

Nonprofit leader sleeps on UK streets for 10 nights to help homeless: 'We need to do so much more for women'

Lianne Kirkman, the founder of The Esther Project, slept on the streets for 10 nights in 10 different cities.
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On the left: a bird's eye view of Maine in autumn. In the middle, two black foldable prototypes displayed to form a rectangle. On the right, a colorful computer rendering of that same foldable pattern.

Engineers design foldable 'origami shelters' for people who need emergency housing

Emergency shelters can take hours, or days, to construct. This foldable origami-inspired shelter can be set up in a matter of minutes.
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Two photos side by side. On the left, four people stand in front of a shipping container. On the left, a Palestinian man holds up two large, green bundles of Nepali mustard greens inside of a hydoponic garden.

Shipping container transformed into indoor farm that feeds immigrants for free: 'Forefront of innovative agriculture'

Food grown by Village Hydroponics is distributed among Nepali, Somali, Iraqi, Congolese, and Burundi communities.
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A photo collage of people standing in front of a hotel converted into a housing complex, a woman talking to a man, Billie Eilish performing on stage, activists carrying signs, and an aerial view of a North Carolina school district

Good News This Week: February 8, 2025 - Quilts, Hotels, & Veterans

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Hundreds of colorful handmade blankets sit outside of Independence Hall in Philadelphia

Volunteers knit giant quilt of 1,000 blankets in memory of homeless people who died in the cold

The blankets are later donated to homeless community members in need.
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A few from nature featuring mountaintop removal in Letcher County, Kentucky

Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land: 'A sign of progress'

Once a coal mine, then slotted to be a prison, a group of activists are working to reclaim the land.
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A crowd of bicyclists prepare for a massive bike ride as they gather items in a graffitied tunnel.

Bicyclist builds 700-person network of volunteers, leads bike drives to deliver donations to the homeless

Verral Paul Walcott has been coordinating donation deliveries on a weekly basis since 2014.
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on the left, an overview of 31 tiny homes, in the middle, ocean lapping up on a beach, on the right, lawn chairs looking over a green space.

Coastal town invites 31 homeless folks to live in tiny home village: 'They are welcome to stay in their home — forever'

A 31-unit tiny home community in coastal North Carolina is giving people a second shot at life.
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A blond woman in a pink cardigan sits outside next to a tan pitbull wearing a red bandana that reads "adopt me." The woman is holding dog toys that are in the shape of roses.

Shelters across the country plan Valentine's Day 'dog dates' to pair adoptable pups with their perfect match

The initiative will be hosted at nearly 50 shelters across 27 states.
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Jelly Roll sings on stage at Rose Bowl Stadium

Jelly Roll (and friends) host benefit concert for 16,000 of LA's incarcerated firefighters, first responders

Paid for by Live Nation, the free Rose Bowl show included guests like Marshmello, Lainey Wilson, and Shinedown.
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A photo collage of an aerial view of a forest, a tablet displaying imagery of genetic editing, a young girl wearing a Taylor Swift The Eras Tour shirt, a section of a vertical farm, and a row of solar panels in a solar farm

Good News This Week: February 1, 2025 - Shovels, Forests, & Vertical Farms

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A woman in a blue safety vest stands next to a large trash receptacle and holds a trash pick-up stick

Portland pays homeless residents to clean up trash: 'This gives people purpose'

Currently or formerly homeless workers get paid $20-29 an hour and have access to an array of benefits.
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