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Remembering the 'Give While You Live' Philanthropist Who Quietly Built 5k Schools Across America

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 04, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 04, 2026 "True leaders don't invest in buildings. They invest in people ... Your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people." — Myles Munroe Remembering the 'Give While You Live' Philanthropist Who Quietly Built 5k Schools Across America Julius Rosenwald, the businessman who built Sears into an empire, spent his fortune on nearly 5,000 schools across the rural American South. And he refused to put his name on any of them. Working alongside Booker T. Washington, he insisted ...

Introducing Story Booth — Where Stories Are Witnessed ...

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Someone tells the truth about their life while others sit and listen. We turn it into a story here on DailyGood.  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ a project of ServiceSpace View in Browser A New DailyGood Project Story Booth A machine can generate endless words. It can’t live a life, or tell you the truth of one. Dear Friends, For nearly 30 years, DailyGood — a project of ServiceSpace — has shared a daily dose of good news with more than 138,000 readers. We’d love to introduce you to something new it has been building: Story Booth . We’re surrounded by more words than any generation befo...

KAMOME (Seagull)

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This week's inspiring video: KAMOME (Seagull) Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Jul 02, 2026   KAMOME (Seagull)   What would it take to prove just how much we have in common? This is the inspiration behind the film "KAMOME" made to show the auspicious friendship between the ci...

How I Practiced Forgiveness When It Hurt the Most

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 30, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 30, 2026 "When a deep injury is done to us, we never heal until we forgive." — Nelson Mandela How I Practiced Forgiveness When It Hurt the Most After Maria Breaux's brother David -- known as "the Compassion Guy" in Davis, California, after 14 years of collecting definitions of compassion from strangers -- was stabbed to death as he slept on a park bench, she discovered a message he had left her: "If I'm ever harmed or unable to speak for myself, forgive the perpetrator and help others forgive that person....

This Month's Stories ...

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 28, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 28, 2026 "The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, for it requires standing ready and unshaken against sudden turns of fortune." — Marcus Aurelius This Month's DailyGood Digest This month, DailyGood explored subtle yet profound shifts that guide our unfolding narratives. Nic Askew invites us to the origin point of stories , encouraging a deeper understanding of storytelling’s evolutionary role. Leena Wilde Ryan offers solace to  writers of a new story , urging them to find courage amid exist...

The Man Who Uncovers Remarkable Forgotten Lives

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 28, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 28, 2026 "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." — Thomas Campbell The Man Who Uncovers Remarkable Forgotten Lives Scrolling through videos on social media, one man was about to swipe past Simon Howard's video of researching the history of the names on a random grave from 1934, when he realized, "It hit me: that’s exactly who I’ll be in a century. Just some random guy with his own ego, desires and goals, completely forgotten." Simon Howard, whose work involves helping people trace their ancestral pasts, w...