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LGBTQ+

LGBTQ-owned businesses and spaces are more important than ever. These apps help you find and support them

Everywhere is Queer and Famm Connect are digital hubs for LGBTQ+ business owners and communities.

A red brick home with a grass roof in the Tapestry development in Frisco, Texas

Environment

All 121 houses in this neighborhood include a grass roof: 'Every single room has access to a garden'

Designers of the homes hope that the approach “blurs the boundaries between indoors and outdoors.”

Faith

This church in Charlotte is training parishioners to protect immigrants during ICE crackdown: 'Loving your neighbors is holy'

Hosted by Siembra NC at Dilworth United Methodist Church, the training gave community members tangible ways to support neighbors amid a citywide ICE crackdown.

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Education

3 ways nonprofits and local governments are reimagining student loan repayments

Could this be the future of student loan debt?

Good Recommendations

Our 8 favorite books about hope to give this holiday season

Good Good Good's end-of-year book recommendations — featuring books that inspire hope, empathy, and action.

A person holds a bowl of stew in a white ceramic bowl

Food

'Souper Sunday:' This 6,000-person Facebook group gives away free, homemade soup to anyone in need

Chris Hyde of Olympia, Washington believes a bowl of soup “transcends the powers that work to divide us.”

A black snake species in the grass. In a circle atop the photo is Steve Irwin holding a koala

Animals

Scientists discover new black, glossy snake species. They named it after Steve Irwin

The wolf snake is one of at least three other species that have been named after the iconic Crocodile Hunter.

Two photos side by side. On the left is a wooden sign for a disabled dog park. On the right are two dogs with wheelchairs on a curving path

Animals

At the world's first 'disabled dog park,' wheelchair-using pups get their 'drivers license'

The 7-acre park includes a “race track” for dogs on wheels.

Two photos side-by-side. on the left is a mother-daughter duo. On the right is a flay-lay of a kid's Play-Dough set

Businesses Doing Good

This Latina mom invented a whole new way for her autistic child to make tamales. It inspired a full-blown business

With the colorful dough and easy-to-manage wooden accessories, little ones can spread and shape “masa” to make tamales, tortillas, and pan dulce.

Gifts That Do Good and Give Back: Kitchen and Food