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Blog: Altruism

  1. Going Postal

    Posted on April 14, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (4)

    Eric Wills has gone postal in a provocative new way. Wills is a mailman in St. Petersburg, Florida, with 480 people on his route. The mail he delivers to them—from high-end catalogues to bundles of bills—speaks volumes. So, as it turns out, does the condition of their yards. Read full article »

  2. Mandy & Lester

    Posted on April 1, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (2)

    Responsibility sometimes presents itself in small packages with big challenges. In Mandy & Lester, two charming, quirky kids lead the way in showing us what real responsibility is about. No excuses. No hesitation. No giving up. Read full article »

  3. Samaritan or Killer?

    Posted on March 20, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (15)

    It’s possible to be a Good Samaritan. But is it possible to be a not-good-enough Samaritan? A Canadian woman was recently confronted with that question when two killers accused her of not doing enough to save a man they had beaten and left for dead. Read full article »

  4. Hotel Rwanda Hilton?

    Posted on March 4, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (27)

    Soon after Paris Hilton’s 23-day jail stint related to DUI charges, she announced that she wanted to go to Rwanda to “help save some people’s lives.” The head of the charity group she was to accompany revealed that Ms. Hilton’s five-day African trip would be documented by a camera crew. Read full article »

  5. Table Guardians

    Posted on February 14, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (4)

    Being responsible can be life-changing. Profound. Noble. And annoying. What are we supposed to do when a stranger says “Excuse me, can you…Watch my things?” Read full article »

  6. Crowd Scene

    Posted on February 13, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (1)

    When adventurer Steve Fossett’s plane went missing over the remote Nevada desert in September 2007, there was no distress signal. But 50,000 people heard a call for help. Without knowing each other or the man they were looking for, they formed an altruistic army of volunteer searchers, unprecedented in size and extraordinary in method. Read full article »

  7. The Gift Continues

    Posted on February 8, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (2)

    A couple of weeks ago, we told you about “The Gift”: a woman finds an envelope with $770 cash—lost by a frantic holiday shopper on the floor of a toy store—and takes it directly to the police. When police return the money to the grateful shopper, the Good Samaritan thinks the story is over. But it was just beginning. Read full article »

  8. The Gift

    Posted on January 25, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (5)

    Long after the holiday decorations have been put away and the presents have started to lose their luster, the spirit of the season past becomes increasingly hard to hold on to.

    But we found that one woman’s gift to another still sparkled, well into the New Year. Read full article »