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Giraffe Stories

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There are over 1,300 entries in our free database of real heroes, all of them about people who have stuck their necks out for the common good.

You can search there for Giraffes by name, location, problem addressed, age, gender, and occupation.

And you're free to use our profiles of these heroes-with attribution, in the form of a link back to www.giraffe.org.

HAVE YOU SPOTTED A GIRAFFE HERO?

The Board of Directors of this nonprofit chooses new Giraffe Heroes several times a year. If you've spotted a hero you'd like to nominate, please go to our Nomination Page

A Few Examples of Giraffe Heroes

"Journalism is about seeking the truth. That is why I wanted to be a journalist."

That's Bob Bajek, a small-town reporter who has been seeking the truth about a neighborhood lake that's been seriously polluted for years-he's been blocked at almost every turn from getting the story out.

Rantoul, Illinois, is a village of about 13,000. Residents often use HeritageLake for recreation. The problem is that HeritageLake used to be a sludge pit adjoining the Chanute Air Force Base. The...
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When the "diamond rush" struck the impoverished populace in 2006, thousands of poor Zimbabweans flocked to the Marange district in the country's Manicaland Province in a desperate attempt to "get rich quickly".

The fortunate ones became instant millionaires whilst the unlucky perished from injuries inflicted upon from dog wounds and multiple bullet wounds fired by "trigger happy" state security agents under the guise of maintaining "law and order".

Everyone was kicked out of...
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As academic advisor to student athletes at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Mary Willingham assumed that the purpose of the university to educate its students, such students including the athletes she was advising.

Based on the university's reaction to her findings on how they were doing that job, such an assumption was perhaps naïve.

Willingham, a reading specialist, conducted research on 183 UNC-Chapel Hill football and basketball players from 2004 to 2012. She found 60%...
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There are over 1,300 entries in our free database of real heroes, all of them about people who have stuck their necks out for the common good. You can search there for Giraffes by name, location, problem addressed, age, gender, and occupation.

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the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.

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to help promote good

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to want to help

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the desire to promote the welfare of others

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the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.

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the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.

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A want to help and promote others through charity and non-profit organizations.

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To give time or money to something or someone, especially charitys.

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to help a good cause

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philanthropy is wanting to help someone else

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Philanthropy is “giving of one’s time, talent or treasure for the sake of another, or for the common good.” Additional definitions include: “voluntary action for the public good; voluntary giving, voluntary service and voluntary association, primarily for the benefit of others; giving and serving; active effort to promote human welfare.”

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Philanthropy is “giving of one’s time, talent or treasure for the sake of another, or for the common good.” Additional definitions include: “voluntary action for the public good; voluntary giving, voluntary service and voluntary association, primarily for the benefit of others; giving and serving; active effort to promote human welfare.”

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wanting to help others in ways like donationg money to cause.

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To Promote others welfare

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is giving money to charity and volunteering. is donating canned goods to a food bank to help needy families in your community or donating.

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to promote to a non profit or good cause

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The desire to promote the welfare of others.

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the want to promote the welfare of others, especially by the donation of money to good causes