It’s always heartwarming to see people who have the financial ability to help others doing so. New Jersey Devils right wing Kyle Palmieri and his fiancee Ashlee Casper have started a new foundation called The Kyle Palmieri Foundation. The goal is to help active and veteran service people and their families and to show appreciation for what they do every day to protect America.

As Palmieri said,

“There are endless challenges facing our nation’s military service members and veterans. We hope to help ease some of these challenges by providing support through The Kyle Palmieri Foundation and through our partnerships with NMFA, SWAN, and Pets for Vets. Each of these organizations provides invaluable support and services, and the Foundation looks to help expand their incredible work. We’re proud to offer our help as a way to say thank you to the brave men and women who are serving and have served our country.”

At this time, they are supporting three specific nonprofits. They include Squad21, the Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN) and the National Military Family Assocation (NMFA).

Here is a story that would make just about anyone smile.

At a recent Rock County 4-H Fair in Wisconsin, one boy auctioned off the pig that he raised to help his teacher. His teacher had quit her teaching job to work for Beat NB and to help her own niece who was battling cancer. At the fair, his pig fetched quite a nice amount of money, but then those bidding on it turned around and sold it back so that it could be auctioned again. In total, the pig, which he thought would help to raise about $600, raised $10,000 instead!

Read the entire story and enjoy.

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Starting on May 16 and ending 3400 miles later across the United States, Brennan Besser will be biking his way towards raising money. He is biking from Seattle to New York and hopes to hold basketball clinics along the way to raise a total of $1 million for the Walk On America Foundation.

As he explains, “What we’re hoping to do is shine a light on a part of the American community that doesn’t have that strong of a voice.”

Where did he get this idea? Besser’s older sister, Jacqueline, is nonverbal and impaired in her motor skills and communication. He wants others to understand ways to deal with adversity and he’s doing so by traveling, typically 60 miles a day with a team of 3-5 people.

It’s amazing what one child with a lot of energy can do. Brooke Dubois, a high school student from Massachusetts, collected 1500 pounds of donated clothes as part of the Lapels Dry Cleaning annual drive. The drive benefits the Big Brothers Big Sisters in the area.

As only a high school freshman, she started to get the word out to everyone she knew. Donations were either dropped at her house or she picked them up from others.

 

As she said, “I’m so happy we were able to get that many donations but what was really cool was how supportive friends and family were in helping this cause. In a way, it almost made me forget that I was trying to beat Josh. Almost.”

Her goal was to collect more clothes for the drive than her brother did in 2016, when he came in with 1398 pounds. And she reached her goal.

The participating stores reached a whopping 16,093 pounds of clothes collected. This is the highest amount they’ve collected in the 14 years that they’ve been doing the drive.

Now, all of the donated clothing will be sold through various channels. The money from those sales will help to fund mentoring programs for young girls and booys.