Good News Notes: “A Kentucky-based nonprofit born as a result of the coronavirus pandemicis hand-delivering groceries and other essential items to community members who otherwise can’t get to a food pantry. Maria Accardi and Constance Merritt created Bringing Justice Home last year after recognizing that food pantries were hit hard by the pandemic, losing both supplies and needed volunteers. They…
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Rescued primates living longer, happier lives at Summerville sanctuary
Good News Notes: “It was 1973 when Shirley McGreal, then living in Southeast Asia, saw beady bright eyes staring back at her from between the slats of a wooden crate. The eyes belonged to a gibbon — a primate native to the region — who had fallen victim to the dangerous world of the pet trade, where gibbons were being sold into…
Bees in the Netherlands trained to detect COVID-19 infections
Good News Notes: “Dutch researchers have trained bees, which have an unusually keen sense of smell, to identify samples infected with COVID-19, a finding they said could cut waiting times for test results to just seconds. To train the bees, scientists in the bio-veterinary research laboratory at Wageningen University gave them sugary water as a…
The Farmer Trying to Save Italy’s Ancient Olive Trees
Good News Notes: “In early 2016, Giovanni Melcarne, an agronomist and the owner of an extra virgin olive oil farm in Gagliano del Capo, walked through the southern Italian countryside of Puglia. He was with a fellow olive-oil farmer who had called and told him there was something he had to see. The two approached a…
NY nonprofit combats food insecurity, focuses on families ineligible for unemployment
Good News Notes: “A nonprofit located in Queens, New York, is tackling the issue of food insecurity in the United States head-on. Before the coronavirus pandemic hit, The Connected Chef focused on education, cooking and gardening classes. The organization’s priorities changed to combating food insecurity when COVID-19 began to spread across New York City, director and co-founder Kim Calichio explained. Calichio and her husband are both restaurant…
N.J. nonprofit helps shape the futures of young adults with special needs
Good News Notes: “Before joining a small nonprofit organization in Hunterdon County, Tanner Anderson mostly kept to himself. Now, one of his favorite things to do is make new friends. “I got here this past January, and I just like to meet new people,” said Anderson, who is 28 and lives in Washington Township in…
Dallas Cowboys help Tarrant Area Food Bank distribute meals
Good News Notes: “The Tarrant Area Food Bank had just one simple request: a huge, vacant parking lot. It was a task the Cotton Bowl and the Dallas Cowboys could easily provide. The Tarrant Area Food Bank held their “Meals for Moms Mega Mobile Market” on Tuesday, distributing food to almost 4,000 families that drove…
Madison, Salvation Army transform former nursing home to shelter for homeless families
Good News Notes: “In four months, the city and Salvation Army of Dane County have transformed a vacated former nursing home on the East Side to a shelter that will better serve 35 of the area’s neediest homeless families. The city in January acquired the 36,192-square-foot former Karmenta Center, set on 3.3 acres at 4502…
100 percent recovery rate for COVID-19 patients treated with Zofin™
Good News Notes: “Organicell Regenerative Medicine has announced that all ten hospitalised COVID-19 patients treated with Zofin™ have recovered and been discharged from hospital. These patients are the first to be treated with the acellular biologic therapeutic derived from perinatal sources in a Phase I/II randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial. The study is evaluating the safety…
Donor gives $50,000 to Stuart nonprofit after seeing WPTV story
Good News Notes: “Madeline Bozone, the executive director of Family Promise Martin County, said the news came on a Friday, making an exciting end to the week. “We are going to gift you $50,000,” she read from the email from a donor. Family Promise Martin County, a small nonprofit that keeps families who fell on…