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School Renamed After Janitor Who Spent 39 Years Uplifting Students

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Oct 31, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Oct 31, 2026 "You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." — Jane Goodall School Renamed After Janitor Who Spent 39 Years Uplifting Students For 39 years, Marilyn Hampton swept floors, bought supplies for children who couldn't afford them, and turned smiles "up instead of down" -- work she once measured against a college degree she never earned and found herself wanting. The custodia...

Mirror to the World

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This week's inspiring video: Mirror to the World Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Oct 29, 2026   Mirror to the World   The vast majority of us function as if we live in a world that we imagine as "separable" -  a world where humans can be separated out from in this cosmo...

Nonprofit Turns Vacant Lots Into Free Fruit Orchards

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Oct 29, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Oct 29, 2026 "The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies." — Gertrude Jekyll Nonprofit Turns Vacant Lots Into Free Fruit Orchards A small orchard planted 13 years ago at a shuttered Kansas CIty elementary school has grown into a national movement that has inspired more than 847 orchards with 14,000 trees in 17 cities, all producing fruit for people living within walking distance. Kansas City itself now has 248 free orchards, with almost 4,600 fruit, nut and berry trees, more than any other US city. After a community ga...

The Business School Experiment with No Prices

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Oct 28, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Oct 28, 2026 "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." — Ralph Waldo Emerson The Business School Experiment with No Prices Early on in school, Gaurav Marathe embraced a Viraja mantra translated by a teacher: "Humans are like a candle. After the candle burns, carbon stays on it, and you have to remove that black carbon from the light so the light again illuminates.” The mantra taught him to experiment with both removing the carbon and illuminating the jyoti -- the light that exists within. In one of m...

West Philly's Second Story Collective Pairs Students with Older Adults

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Oct 27, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Oct 27, 2026 "It’s an invite. Everybody’s welcome, whoever wants to come." — Ms. Julia West Philly's Second Story Collective Pairs Students with Older Adults What happens when two generations open their doors to one another? In West Philadelphia, a small but growing program called Second Story Collective is bringing college students and older residents together through shared housing, creating unexpected friendships along the way. For Ms. Julia, a retired nursing assistant who has lived in her neighborhood for more than 50 years,...

Gen Z Is Rescuing Millions in Medical Supplies

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Oct 26, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Oct 26, 2026 "In any way we can help, we'd love to help." — Noah Cheng, Blueprints for Pangea Gen Z Is Rescuing Millions in Medical Supplies What happens when young people see a problem that others have learned to overlook? Across the United States, a growing network of students is rescuing millions of dollars' worth of perfectly usable medical supplies destined for landfills and delivering them to communities in need. When 16-year-old Ben Kurian discovered that hospitals routinely discarded sterile supplies simply because th...

This Week in DailyGood ...

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Oct 25, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Oct 25, 2026 "The things we offer freely have a way of traveling farther than we ever imagined." — Kristen Freeland This Week's DailyGood Digest In this week's recap of daily inspirations, we journeyed through stories of quiet resilience and unexpected generosity. We explored the enduring impact of invisible generosity through the unsung fortune a legal secretary  gifted to strangers  in her passing, reminding us that simplicity can hold the deepest treasures. In a whimsical turn, one grandad discovered w...