The Do Gooders Podcast

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 he says, it's most important that we help teach kids to be kind.   It's what...

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. From 2017 to 2018, most of California's major urban areas saw a slight decrease in homel...

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.     That number includes men, women and children—each with a unique story.   And while the...

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 health.   Experts urge us to find calm by looking inward and muting the outside w...

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 that mean? In this episode, The Salvation Army's national leaders—Commissioners Dave and...

A weekly podcast from The Salvation Army's Caring Magazine dedicated to helping you do good right where you are.