Summarizing the Giving Trends from 2024 Philanthropy and giving changes throughout the years. Giving USA tracks the trends each year and their report from 2024 showed that people continued to practice charitable giving despite inflation. The focus for most people […]
It has been almost three months now that Hurricane Helene’s damaging wind and flood waters swept through Western North Carolina. Currently, there are hundreds of people living in tents and temporary housing while they wait for repairs and new construction […]
For the first time since 2017, the National Park Service will be administering the test for becoming a guide at the Gettysburg National Military Park. Since the 1930 the Park Service has maintained around 150 guides, but currently, that number […]
Operation Turkey is a heartwarming initiative that brings communities together to celebrate Thanksgiving Day. This non-profit organization relies on the power of volunteers to prepare and deliver delicious Thanksgiving meals to those in need. Operation Turkey’s mission is simple yet […]
Here’s a really unusual world record that you probably haven’t heard of–a quick-fingered concert pianist from Romania unofficially broke a Guinness World Record by hitting a piano key 500 times in 30 seconds. Thurzó Zoltán, a renowned concert pianist, videoed […]
Hurricane Helene made landfall on Thursday, September 26, 2024 in the Panhandle of Florida and quickly carved a path with destructive winds and high quantities of rainfall throughout Georgia, South Carolina, western North Carolina, and Tennessee. Billions of dollars of […]
Well, the T-Rex World Championship Races happened again just a few weeks ago and it was a hilarious event! There were around 200 T-Rexes that participated again this year. To get the full effect of how funny this is to […]
Nigel Richards has won 11 North American and world championships in Scrabble, which is eight more than anyone else. The 57 year old man from New Zealand has earned the title of the best Scrabble player of all times. David […]
In the 1930s, there were some racists laws that excluded certain people from renting places to live. At that time in Coronado, California, a man who was born into slavery in Kentucky named Gus Thompson, rented a house to the […]
What Mentoring Has Taught Me I have been a mentor for 6 years for the uniquely Florida organization called Take Stock in Children. It requires me to mentor a high school student who may be considered at-risk or one who […]