Grammy Award-winning artist Ricky Martin has long been passionate about helping others, serving as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador and working with Habitat for Humanity.
Ask any homeowner who has done an improvement on the cheap: You get what you pay for. Second-rate materials don't last and contractors who make low-ball bids rarely deliver fine craftsmanship.
Just out of the hospital and standing in a heavy downpour, former President Jimmy Carter was swinging a hammer Monday at a housing construction project in the nation's capital, helping to mark World Habitat Day.
It's hard to think about humanitarian travel without picturing Angelina Jolie and other high-profile volunteers. But how much do celebrities contribute to the growing appetite for volunteering away from home and is it all positive?
At first, Kip Scheidler said he felt the ground tremble.
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Nov. 30. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer.
The First Lady will deliver their commencement address - under certain conditions
If you're looking for love and not having much luck, maybe you could increase your success by getting a bit more passionate -- about helping others.
A man from Vermont got into the habit of leaving his wife little notes. Nothing elaborate -- just sweet sentiments like "I love you" or "I can't wait to get home to you tonight," jotted down on Post-it notes and then hidden in places where he knew she'd stumble over them throughout the course of her day.
Millard Fuller, who founded Habitat for Humanity International along with his wife, has died, officials said Tuesday. He was 74.
In 1988, a relatively unknown rock and blues guitarist named Warren Haynes got some of his friends together to play music in Asheville, North Carolina. It was just an opportunity for local musicians to jam during the holidays, the one time of year they were all in town together.
Meanwhile, scalpers ask up to $1,500 for tickets to the band's free N.Y.C. concert
One day while driving with her father, Hannah Salwen noticed a Mercedes stopped next to a homeless man sitting on the curb.
Rusty Dornin reports on an Atlanta family selling their big house to donate $800,000 to fight worldwide hunger.
Players on Francis Howell Central High School's football team thought they would be doing their strength training in a weight room this week.
Volunteer vacations are one of the biggest trends in travel. If you've never really considered going on one, these volunteers' stories might just change your mind.
When Chris Barlte moved his real estate firm into a larger office, he worked eco-friendliness into the culture of the San Francisco-based company.
An online job-search company founder was named National Small Business Person of the Year this week, becoming the first entrepreneur to win the Small Business Administration award for a Web venture
America's food banks are hurting because of a decline in donations and surge in demand. CNN's Don Lemon reports.
Ordinary Americans aren't the only ones being punished by tough economic times. Charities say they need help, too.
Everyone knows someone privy to sharing too much information -- the TMI, if you will. TMIs have no boundaries and no shame. They will tell you any and every piece of personal information, whether it's filling you in on her latest try at the fertility doctor or the dream he had about your boss last night.
Repossessed houses have become the refuge of criminals and vagrants in one area hit hardest by the mortgage crisis
Expanding on a promise he made nearly two months ago, actor Brad Pitt said Monday he expects to have families in 150 newly created homes in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward by the end of next summer -- but he asked for help to make the dream a reality.
Brad Pitt launches a campaign to bring safe housing back to the most devastated areas of New Orleans.
In his recent commercials for Lincoln, Harry Connick Jr. does more than endorse the MKX crossover vehicle – he endorses his hometown of New Orleans and its struggle to rebuild following Hurricane Katrina.
Standing outside his new mint-green house, Fredy Omar hears the rumble of construction trucks, the buzz of drills and the thud of hammers. It's all an overture for something far sweeter -- the sound of music.
Tom Pirelli's life changed on a hot, black-shingled roof in Ensenada, Mexico, where he and others were building a plywood house for a poor family as volunteers for a nonprofit. He relished the experience but fought a sense of dismay. "I was disappointed in the quality of houses being built: small and cheap as we could make them, plus it took 30 people two days to build," recalls Pirelli, 59. "As a lifelong engineer, I knew there had to be a better way."
In 1927, J. Willard Marriott and new bride, Alice, opened a nine-stool root beer stand in Washington, D.C. It grew into a restaurant chain called Hot Shoppes and much later became a hotel company. Their son Bill Marriott worked in the kitchen as a young man.
A Quest to buildupdated: Tue Apr 24 2007 10:00:00
This month on Quest... the architects! In the words of the great architect Sir Christopher Wren, "architecture aims at eternity". With this in mind, host Richard Quest tracks down some of the gifted designers who shape our world and visualize the future. It's a Quest to Build!
On October 2, 2005, I weighed 500 pounds.
So you're not Warren Buffett or Bill Gates. There's no reason you still can't give like a billionaire. Donor-advised funds - investment accounts that let you deposit assets for an upfront tax deduc...
Recently I had coffee with a friend who was venting. This was normal - what are friends and grande skim lattes for?
I wasn't ready to leave -- there was still work left to do.
Michael Jordan, who led the Chicago Bulls to six National Basketball Association championships, will auction off autographed memorabilia to raise money for Katrina relief efforts, according to a published report.
Get ready for a whole new Harriet.
International aid organizations are accepting donations to help victims of the devastating earthquake in South and Central Asia. The groups include:
President Bush on Thursday proposed what he called the "Gulf Opportunity Zone" -- a recovery plan that would provide job-creating incentives in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Before the end of his first stanza, Eric Clapton plied melody into the horror that victims of Hurricane Katrina faced.
CNNMoney: School's out!updated: Fri Jun 10 2005 10:56:00
School's out for the summer. And while that may be good news for kids who just can't wait to escape the homework, moms and dads may think differently.
What to consider when you try to network with your boss's boss. Plus, skills the ideal CIO candidate should have, the advantages of being fired, and more on revealing your true age at work.
The character of a person never changes as you go through life," says Millard Fuller, 70, founder of Habitat for Humanity. Now that he's no longer welcome at the charity's offices, we're meeting in...
FSB: Straw Housesupdated: Fri Apr 01 2005 00:01:00
For nearly 20 years, Martha Bear Quiver dreamed of owning a home on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana, but she was repeatedly turned down for a mortgage because she couldn't make ...
Imagine returning from vacation with tales of excavating mummies in the Atacama Desert in Chile or tracing the history of the planet's fresh water back nearly 20,000 years in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.
The devastating tsunamis in southern Asia have inspired an unprecedented global outpouring of relief. Now some philanthropists are looking to "hot-wire" a tsunami relief effort on the Internet.
It was one of the few heartening events of the past several weeks--even before the smoke cleared from the Sept. 11 attacks, charitable donations began pouring in. And the money keeps coming. As of ...
Fortune: Helping Themselvesupdated: Mon Jan 08 2001 00:01:00
At the East Alabama Medical Center, caring for people is a job. But it's not just a job. The medical center's Cornerstone Society is an employee-run organization that helps workers in crisis. Funde...
Most of us have experienced pangs of conscience. We see refugees on television and sign a check. We drop a coin in a cup. We even volunteer a few hours at a soup kitchen and swear we'll do it again...
Just three days after India's killer quake struck last September, Anne-Lise Brown, 30, a project director for the AmeriCares Foundation in New Canaan, Conn., was winging to Bombay. Her mission: to ...
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