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DailyGood.org is a website dedicated to sharing positive and uplifting news stories from around the world. Its mission is to foster a sense of hope, inspiration, and connection by highlighting acts of kindness, human resilience, and progress in areas such as social justice, environmental sustainability, and personal growth. The platform curates stories that often go unnoticed in mainstream media, focusing on the "good" happening in communities globally.

In terms of its relationship to providing uplifting news, DailyGood serves as a counterbalance to the often negative and sensationalist narratives prevalent in traditional news outlets. By delivering content that emphasizes compassion, innovation, and collective well-being, it encourages readers to engage with the world in a more constructive and optimistic way. The site also offers newsletters and other resources to help people stay informed about positive developments and to inspire action toward creating a better world. Through this focus, DailyGood fosters a community of individuals committed to celebrating humanity's potential for good.

1. Doctors in Montreal can now prescribe their patients tickets to the orchestra

   A new program in Canada called social prescribing allows doctors to prescribe free tickets to the symphony. They may also prescribe other things “that are normally outside the scope of medicine, but can have tremendous impact on people’s health and well-being — like art, nature or community activities.” Many studies provide evidence-based data that show music releases...

2. Facing Everything: Conversation with Gangaji

   What does it mean to face everything? Dive into a conversation where author, healer, teacher, seeker, activist Gangaji, 83, unveils her journey through heartbreak and discovery, revealing that true spiritual awakening involves embracing every emotion, even the stormiest ones. "To face everything is to be willing to acknowledge that whatever arises can be met," she points out, inviting us to let...

3. A Cinema of Inclusion Shines Bright

   In the state of Connecticut, one theater is shattering societal norms by offering a venue to those who often go unnoticed. Founded by Valerie Jensen, this extraordinary movie theater employs people with disabilities, known as 'Prospects', and celebrates their unique talents. Inspired by her sister with Down syndrome, Valerie's dream of changing perceptions has come alive with over 300 Prospects...

4. Paris Agreement: A Decade Later

   The Paris Agreement, a 2015 accord that altered the trajectory of climate politics, crosses its 10th anniversary with notable strides in clean energy, policy, and emissions. A decade ago, the forecast was dire, projecting a rise to 4°C by 2100, but today we're on a path closer to 2.6°C, thanks to a surge in clean energy deployment and stronger policies. The world has seen solar and wind...

5. Nonprofit Removes 300K Landmines in Sri Lanka, Allows 280K People to Return Home

   “Nothing epitomizes war’s destructive legacy more than landmines and unexploded bombs, which have terrorized the populations of dozens of countries for decades.” Halo Trust, a British nonprofit, saw a need and responded. They have been clearing landmines from conflict sites around the world for many years. Among them is Sri Lanka where a thirty-year civil war ended in 2009....

6. How Different Religions Practice Forgiveness -- and What We Can Learn From Them

   Forgiveness, as described across Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, is less an erasure of harm and more a courageous recalibration of relationships. In Judaism, the ritual of Yom Kippur and the practice of teshuvah highlight a community's commitment to reconciliation, demanding face-to-face acknowledgment of wrongs. Islam presents forgiveness through the story of the Prophet's journey to Taif,...

7. School Surprises Beloved Principal with Dream Wedding

   Principal Brianna Lanoye of Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School loves her students and they love her, too. Brianna was planning her wedding and expressed to her coworker and Vice Principal Courtney Champlin that she would love to have all her students attend the wedding. Courtney said that wasn’t possible, but then secretly created a plan to do just that. The school and...

8. Unhoused in Denver, He Emptied His Bank Account to Save His Elderly Aunt

   Mark Gaskin had a good job and a home with a private back yard when he was seriously injured in an on-the-job accident. He became unable to work and pay his bills, and lost his home. He lives in his car parked outside his aunt’s apartment. Last year, his 81-year-old aunt’s account got hacked, and she got an eviction notice. When Mark found out, he paid her rent, and became her...

9. To Dance is More Than Just a Radical Act

   For Kimerer L. LaMothe, dance is more than just movement.  “Dancing, we cultivate a sensory awareness that helps us discern how to think and feel and act in ways that honor nature – the nature surging through our veins, crackling in our thoughts, roaming with our senses, moving in and out of our bodily selves…” It is an integrative and imaginative interaction that...

10. This physician left her job to teach life skills for those in need

    Kathryn Miner worked as an emergency medicine physician for more than a decade before discovering culinary medicine. "Culinary medicine is centered on nutrition, food safety aspects, teaching kitchens, being a physician and kind of slash pseudo chef." Miner left emergency medicine and began practicing culinary medicine at a health care company, but was soon laid off. That didn’t stop her....