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The Do Gooders Podcast

Jun 24, 2019

If we want our children to be moral people, we have to raise them that way. 

Yet Harvard researchers found the majority of youth in a study said their parents were more concerned with their achievement or happiness than whether they cared for others. 

And that’s exactly what Dr. Rick Weissbourd is out to correct. 

As...


Jun 17, 2019

In case you haven’t heard, homelessness is booming in California.

Some 130,000 Californians are homeless—which is nearly a quarter of the national total. And that rate of homelessness is among the highest in the country.

Homelessness jumped 14 percent from 2016 to 2017 in California and city leaders took note....


Jun 10, 2019

Did you know The Salvation Army is in more than 130 countries around the world?

And in the United States, it’s present in every zip code—working to meet human need.

The brand promise says the organization is Doing the Most Good. And you’ll often hear that The Salvation Army is in a Fight for Good.

So what does...


Jun 10, 2019

Did you know: Joy is one of our six primary emotions, which are universally expressed around the world? And it’s only positive one? 

While some may conflate joy with childishness and think we’re supposed to get more serious as we get older, research actually shows a clear link between our surroundings and our mental...


Jun 10, 2019

On any given night in America, more than 550,000 people are homeless. 

To put that in perspective—that’s more than 8 times the capacity of Gillette Stadium, home of the SuperBowl Champion New England Patriots. It’s more than the number of people who live in all of Sacramento, California, or Tucson, Arizona.