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In 1992, a young CEO named Kurt Herwald apparently gave away half a million dollars of his company’s money. His company, Stevens Aviation, had been advertising with the slogan “Plane Smart.” [...]

A free cup of coffee may seem like a small thing, but it can make someone’s day when it’s given as a random act of kindness. At coffee shops and drive-through restaurants across the [...]

For the past 6 years, I’ve volunteered for a remarkable organization called Step Up on Second in Santa Monica, CA. Step Up provides permanent supportive housing, meals, and other essential [...]

Over at Popular Science, I found an interesting article about meditation and Kindness. As you probably know by now, I love anything that tackles kindness from a scientific perspective. And when [...]

This is totally awesome, not the part about the city suing him, but the part about there being Kindness Outlaws. It seems a group of people calling themselves “Robin Hood and his Merry [...]

As children, most of us are taught that we ought to leave the world a better place than we found it. But as we grow older, busier and perhaps even a little jaded, we may lose some of our idealism [...]

Okay, this is one of the most heartwarming videos I have ever seen. Erik Adigard, one of the kindest people I’ve ever met, shared this with me. It’s a compilation of Russian dash cam [...]

Rena LeBlanc, who we feature in Good Virus, is the mastermind behind the volunteer troupe Cabaret, which is in its 27th year of performing at nursing homes all over the San Fernando Valley. Her [...]

I just coined a word (with the help of a typo) to describe the kind of film Good Virus is. Most documentaries bring awareness to a problem or let us know about an interesting person, event, place [...]