Hero Stories

While it’s easy to admire and applaud helpers who are tackling the world’s biggest challenges on an enormous scale, the helpers in our own communities are also doing so much good — just without the fame and acclaim.

The nonprofit is empowering children to make a positive difference in the world — and many of these kids are growing up to become activists

The Good Good Good guide to what happened in Haiti, how people are already showing up to make a difference, and the best organizations to support.

A doula collective is training emergency responders from across the state in best practices, filling a crucial gap in disaster response.

Five Lincoln Public Schools teachers have been tasked with educating Nebraska youth while they’re detained and awaiting court decisions.

With homemade rafts and plastic-bottle life jackets, teams of young villagers save stranded locals when the Brahmaputra River bursts its banks.

Meet the frontline heroes making a difference during COVID, natural disasters, mental health crises, and more

Every year, The Helpers Edition of the Goodnewspaper highlights inspiring helpers in a number of categories. In this post we’re celebrating helpers in the Ukraine category.

Derrick Campana is an animal orthotist who has saved more than 20,000 pets with his custom-made prosthetics. Campana, who’s from Sterling, Virginia, creates braces and artificial limbs to increase animals' mobility and improve their lives. 

A new preventative form of peer support is helping Canadian crews address the cumulative stress of their jobs before they get to the point of mental burnout or breakdown.

One study found that over 70% of wrongful convictions in the US can be at least partly blamed on incorrect eyewitness testimony.

Hollywood royalty and elder statesman of the silver screen, Bahamian-American actor Sidney Poitier, whose trailblazing work in the 1950s and '60s helped break color barriers, died at 94.