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She Once Visited Food Pantries. Now She Runs 20.

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 11, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 11, 2026 "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." — Anne Frank She Once Visited Food Pantries. Now She Runs 20. Alyssa Curtis drives through a town in Michigan, US, with a trunk full of diapers and microwaveable mac-and-cheese cups. She restocks the 20 little pantries her nonprofit has quietly planted across the region. The Shame Free Collective is exactly what its name promises: no forms, no judgment, no humiliation tax on hunger. Curtis knows that tax personally. She grew...
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The Indigenous Women Who Stopped a Burning Savanna

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 10, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 10, 2026 "To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language." — Robin Wall Kimmerer The Indigenous Women Who Stopped a Burning Savanna When fire swept through the Santana Indigenous Territory in 2018, the men went for help and the women watched the land burn. From that helplessness, something unexpected grew: a volunteer fire brigade where 25 of 45 trained firefighters are women -- grandmothers, teenagers, educators -- defending 73,000 hectares of Brazil's Cerrado that the state has largely abandoned. In a year when...
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Living in the Gift Economy

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This week's inspiring video: Living in the Gift Economy Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Jul 09, 2026   Living in the Gift Economy   In 2015 Jo Nemeth left her job, closed her bank account and said goodbye to the last of her money. Eleven years later, Jo lives a healthy, fulf...
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58 Japanese Doctors, 34 Years, One Vietnamese Hospital

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 09, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 09, 2026 "I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." — Rabindranath Tagore 58 Japanese Doctors, 34 Years, One Vietnamese Hospital Every year, for the last 34 years, a team of Japanese surgeons, dentists, and nurses has made the same journey: through Ho Chi Minh City's traffic, across the Mekong River, and into a rural hospital in Vinh Long province -- to offer free cleft-lip and cleft-palate surgeries to people who might otherwise never receive them. This...
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The Man Who Planted 25 Million Trees

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 08, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 08, 2026 "Let us invest in what already exists." — Swami Prem Parivartan ('Peepal Baba') The Man Who Planted 25 Million Trees After fifty years planting 25 million trees, Swami Prem Parivartan, known affectionately as "Peepal Baba," offers a counterintuitive insight: the most important trees are not the saplings we will plant in the future, but the elder trees that are already standing. His answer to whether he would save a 500-year-old tree or plant a hundred thousand saplings comes as a question of its own: ...
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A Storyteller Who Gets Out of the Way

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 07, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 07, 2026 "Each of us has some specific skill we can offer. We give what we can, every time we can. It could be resources, it could be attention, it could be love. And if everybody's doing that, then we are changing the world." — Brian Conroy A Storyteller Who Gets Out of the Way According to gifted storyteller Brian Conroy, “Before I ever told a story, I internalized the elements that made a good story” by absorbing vibrant family rhythms and cadences, the music, the laughter. Stories about his father brought him to life thou...
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When Five Teens Helped Rescue My Unconscious Son

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 06, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 06, 2026 "The greatest impact we have on our family, our friends, and our world is our kindness and love." — Jonathan Lockwood Huie When Five Teens Helped Rescue My Unconscious Son Amanda Coll and her seven year-old son with cerebral palsy were riding on a modified scooter when they hit a puddle and fell. Suddenly, she realized her son was unconscious. She had no phone on her, and the park was nearly empty. Desperate, she shouted for help. Five teenagers, sheltering under a picnic cover from the drizzle, immediately came sprintin...
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