California Will Start Paying Restaurants To Deliver Food to Seniors in Need
Governor Gavin Newsom has announced an exciting new plan in California to bring three nutritious meals a day to seniors in need, while providing meaningful work to those who have lost their jobs due to...
View ArticleTiny Alaskan Town Grocer Hailed as Hero For Sailing to Costco For Groceries...
Toshua Parker of Gustavus, sails his boat to Costco for 7 hours every week to provide the only source of groceries and supplies for the tiny Alaksa town. The post Tiny Alaskan Town Grocer Hailed as...
View ArticleFamily-Owned Greenhouse Donates $1Million in Orchids to Healthcare Workers in...
Green Circle Growers of Ohio have donated $1 million in orchids to frontline workers in seven cities hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The post Family-Owned Greenhouse Donates $1Million in Orchids...
View ArticleGym Owner Gives Out All His Equipment So Members Can Work Out At Home
The Be Strong gym owner in Bloomington, Illinois generously did his part to make sure customers could stay active by lending out $40K in equipment. The post Gym Owner Gives Out All His Equipment So...
View ArticleChef Andrés’ Charity is Injecting $50 Million into Restaurants By Paying Them...
This is just one of the ways that Chef José and World Central Kitchen have been working tirelessly to feed people during the COVID crisis, too. The post Chef Andrés’ Charity is Injecting $50 Million...
View ArticleAfter Weeks of Struggling to Make Ends Meet, Hair Stylist Surprised With...
This 32-year-old single mom was left crying tears of joy after a random customer left her a hefty tip for a simple walk-in haircut. The post After Weeks of Struggling to Make Ends Meet, Hair Stylist...
View ArticleChef Serves Up 6-Foot Sandwich for Friends to Enjoy While Maintaining Social...
Chef Ethan Rodgers designed the monster sandwich so friends could eat lunch together while still respecting social restrictions. The post Chef Serves Up 6-Foot Sandwich for Friends to Enjoy While...
View ArticleCouple Who Created a New Quiz Card Game Sees Sales Rocket During Lockdown,...
A British couple who created a quiz card game, Shot in the Dark, is celebrating the rocketing sales of their product during lockdown. The post Couple Who Created a New Quiz Card Game Sees Sales Rocket...
View ArticleBoss Welcomes Back 14 Employees With Surprise $1,000 Bonuses For Spending on...
Jenny Beck, an attorney who runs a law office in Dunedin, New Zealand, welcomed back each of her 14 employees with $1000 cash to spend on local businesses. The post Boss Welcomes Back 14 Employees With...
View ArticleHotel Stays Open During Lockdowns to House Homeless Locals; And They’re...
The Fownes Hotel in Worcester has been housing 45 rough sleepers during the COVID-19 shutdowns—and now, the homeless are repaying the kindness. The post Hotel Stays Open During Lockdowns to House...
View ArticleMore Americans Are Going Out of Their Way to Support Small Businesses During...
This new survey says that roughly 75% of Americans have shifted their shopping habits towards supporting small businesses amid the pandemic. The post More Americans Are Going Out of Their Way to...
View ArticleFrom Pizza to Fresh Vegetables: When You’re in The Bronx, You’re Going to Get...
During the pandemic, people in Riverdale in The Bronx have set up The Pizza Brigade and a Friendly Fridge on the street to feed those in need. The post From Pizza to Fresh Vegetables: When You’re in...
View ArticleAntique Store Owner Gives Student Free $3,000 Piano After He Delighted...
After 23-year-old John Capron was filmed playing a Journey cover on an antique store piano, the shop owner surprised him with a free Steinway. The post Antique Store Owner Gives Student Free $3,000...
View ArticleSmall Town Business Owner Survives Pandemic By Live-Streaming Fashion Shows...
Georgia business owner Virginia Sharp is surviving the pandemic by doing fashion shows online to boost sales for her Daemarii’s Unique Boutique. The post Small Town Business Owner Survives Pandemic By...
View ArticleTo Honor His Late Father, Man Learns To Cook on YouTube—Now He Owns A...
A man in South Carolina learned how to cook by watching YouTube videos, and now he’s gone on to open a restaurant that has employed 60 people. Octavius “Tay” Nelson grew up washing dishes in...
View ArticleAnimal Owners Can Now Wear Face Masks Adorned With Their Pets’ Faces – and...
Animal owners can now wear face masks adorned with their pets’ mouths. And the results? They’re fun, sweet, and often hilarious. Dogs And Dorks, an Etsy shop, will print a mask with the snout of your...
View ArticleLandscaping Pros Have Been Giving Free Lawn Care Services to Healthcare...
Project Evergreen has been mowing lawns for frontline workers taking some of the stress out of their lives while beautifying the environment for when they return home. During the pandemic, households...
View ArticleHer Dad’s Food Truck Made Just $6 in a Day, So She Asked Twitter For Help –...
When a young Texas woman realized how much her dad’s food truck has been struggling in the pandemic, she made a single post on Twitter asking for help. Giselle Aviles and her father Elias have a close...
View ArticleNew Fix-It Clinic is Using Zoom and Global Community to Help You Repair Items...
How many YouTube tutorials does it take to screw in a lightbulb? One—if that many. But when you need to fix something that’s beyond your level of DIY expertise, with nearly a bazillion videos offering...
View ArticleThis Austin Restaurant is Making the Wittiest Pandemic Signs Anywhere
A restaurant that’s famous for its hilarious signs has been pulling out all the stops to bring laughs in the era of COVID-19. Austin-based restaurant El Arroyo started making comic signs in the early...
View ArticleIconic New York Bookstore Flooded With $200,000 in Orders After Plea to Fans...
While you can’t always tell a book by its cover, it seems you can tell a bookstore by its customers—and one iconic shop in New York has some very devoted fans. As anyone who’s seen the film You’ve Got...
View ArticleIconic Paris Bookstore Gets So Many Orders After Pleading With Fans, They Had...
What happens when a world-famous independent bookshop finds itself in dire straights due to the global pandemic? It gets creative, of course. As with other struggling bookstores like New York City’s...
View ArticleNice Or Naughty? The Best (And Worst) Companies During This Pandemic
GNN polled readers on our Facebook page to find out which companies have excelled during the pandemic of 2020, and which ones didn’t live up to normal standards of customer service (even in a time of...
View ArticleThis Paralyzed Gymnast Rebounded to Start a Tea Company—And it’s One of...
The course of human life can change in the blink of an eye. That’s what happened when at age 14, Canadian gymnast Taylor Lindsay-Noel took a bad spill that left her paralyzed. On track at the time as...
View ArticleThis Irish Couple Built Homes for Their Employees, and It’s Changed Their Lives
Like the song says, “There’s no place like home for the holidays.” Now, thanks to a pair of forward-thinking business owners in County Kerry, Ireland, three families will be moving into company...
View ArticleHow Phoenix Feeds The Hungry With Fresh Food While Saving Local Businesses...
Around the world, individuals have found all kinds of innovative ways to support each other during the coronavirus pandemic—but so have governments. In Arizona, the city of Phoenix has managed to save...
View ArticleThe Unique Ways in Which Small Business Owners Are Adapting to the Pandemic
Technology has been a saving grace for small business owners who have had to adjust to working from home and the lack of customers shopping in brick and mortar stores. According to a new poll,...
View ArticleThis Could Be Your Dream Job: Thousands Apply to Be Caretakers on Remote...
If you love the rugged wilderness and rustic living, this might be your dream job. For the second year running, owners of a coffee shop and four rental cottages on Great Blasket Island are in search of...
View ArticleThis ‘Life-Changing’ Backward Walker is Helping People Move Forward Hands Free
The inventor has gone into debt launching this company, but he says that giving people the ability to walk again, and seeing them embrace their freedom, makes the effort worth more than words can say....
View ArticleWorld’s First All-Civilian Mission to Space Will Usher in New Era While...
SpaceX announced plans for the world’s first all-civilian mission to space. Targeted for late 2021, the flight will be commanded by Jared Isaacman, a 37-year-old entrepreneur and accomplished pilot—and...
View ArticleKenyan Woman’s Startup Recycles Plastic Waste into Bricks That Are 5x...
An absolutely brilliant young woman in Kenya has started a company manufacturing bricks from recycled plastic. Nzambi Matee says she was “tired of being on the sidelines” while civil servants struggled...
View ArticleHelp Out Your Favorite Historic Restaurant—Nominate it For an Amex Pandemic...
There’s no getting around it: The pandemic has hit the restaurant industry hard. That’s why American Express is funding $1 million in grants to historic U.S. restaurants—you can help by nominating your...
View ArticleIndie Bookstore Saved by Hilarious Super Bowl Ad, Thanks to Tom Hanks and...
Legendary quarterback Tom Brady might have taken home his seventh Super Bowl ring this past February, but arguably the biggest winner of the night wasn’t even in the game. The honor goes instead to a...
View ArticleInstead of Issuing Tickets For Broken Headlights, Denver Police Are Handing...
A new partnership with police in Colorado is putting smiles on the faces of motorists who might not have the money to fix a broken part on their vehicle. An Advance Auto Parts store has gifted the...
View ArticleCompany Turns Your Loved One’s Ashes into Elegant Stones
A smooth pebble, fired in a kiln from the ashes of a dearly departed, is the latest way Americans can choose to carry on the memory of a loved one. Parting Stone is a startup looking to give people...
View ArticleAfter Collecting Over 8000 Titles, Woman Fulfills Dream of Opening a...
While youth is often a time of great promise and achievement, a life well lived can also be filled with any number of next chapters and second—or even third—acts that add depth, nuance, and meaning to...
View ArticleLargest Farm to Grow Crops Under Solar Panels Proves to Be a Bumper Crop for...
Agrivoltaics is a field of study that’s blooming with knowledge: how to combine the harvesting of agriculture with solar energy in a way that augments the performance of both. Exciting researchers,...
View Article56% of Small Biz Owners Think Remote Working Has Made Them Better Leaders...
More than half of small business owners (56%) agree that working from home during the pandemic has made their experience of leading a team easier and more productive, according to a new poll. A survey...
View Article73% of These Women Who Started Businesses During Pandemic Say It’s Easier...
As a business owner, being your own boss certainly has its perks, but 33% of female small business owners were motivated to start their own businesses to inspire other women. That’s according to a new...
View ArticleLivin’ Good Currency – Ep. 3: She Makes GOOD Happen, By Investing in...
The Lesson: Investing in people is investing in the future. Putting money behind women-led companies can lead to great financial returns, and even better social ones. Better still, investing in...
View ArticleTwo in Three U.S. Business Owners Believe They’re Currently Living the...
The ‘American Dream’ isn’t dead according to small business owners—65% of whom believe they currently are living it. A new survey of 1,000 small business owners in the United States showed that...
View ArticleDesigner Turns Mussel Shells That Once Clogged London’s Water Pipes into...
Some designers in London are taking an invasive mussel species and turning it into beautiful tiling. Aside from preventing the mussel shells breaking down in landfills, the process creates a rigid...
View ArticleThis Gorgeous Leather is Made From the Hide of an Invasive Predatory Fish
An exotic aquarium staple, the spectacular lionfish is unfortunately an invasive species that spells catastrophe for Atlantic and Caribbean ecosystems it happens upon. Fortunately for these seas,...
View ArticleIndian Man Grows Precious Saffron In a Shipping Container–Wants to Share His...
Feeling like the 9-5 office life of a software developer was too empty, an Indian man flipped his own script and became an entrepreneur, developed a method of hydroponically growing saffron, and wants...
View ArticleCanadian Family Turns Old School into Hydroponic Farm Growing Fresh Veggies...
A rural Saskatchewan winter is nothing to take lightly, and if there’s any farming to be done it better be in a greenhouse. Or does it? It turns out that an old schoolhouse will do just fine for one...
View ArticleFarmers Markets Thriving Since Pandemic as Shoppers and Venders Form...
The number of farmers markets in the US is increasing—as are the numbers of customers and the number of states choosing to celebrate them with an official ‘Farmers Market Week’. The cheeriest place to...
View ArticleAfter 6 Months Searching for New Doctor, Small Town’s Viral Video was ‘Just...
For six months, the retiring small town doctor searched for his replacement, with no luck. But a new General Practitioner is now on the job thanks to a viral video featuring hundreds of people in the...
View ArticleThe US Economy Delivers Blockbuster Performance in 3rd Quarter With Highest...
The U.S. just posted its GDP number—a whopping 4.9% for the 3-month period ending in September—which is more than twice the GDP of the second quarter (2.1%). GDP (Gross Domestic Product) tracks the...
View ArticleThree-Quarters of Small Business Owners Believe They’re Equipped to Handle...
More than three quarters of U.S. small business owners believe that their company is equipped to handle any upcoming economic instability, according to a new poll. The new survey of 1,000 small...
View ArticleKansas Woman Turns Your Feet Into an Inspiring Billboard For Positive...
The words we tell ourselves matter. Now you can remind yourself—and others—that you are amazing, smart, courageous, or beautiful with Notes To Self socks, because words make all the difference. In a...
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