Daily Good

DailyGood.org is a website dedicated to sharing positive and uplifting news stories from around the world. Its mission is to foster a sense of hope, inspiration, and connection by highlighting acts of kindness, human resilience, and progress in areas such as social justice, environmental sustainability, and personal growth. The platform curates stories that often go unnoticed in mainstream media, focusing on the "good" happening in communities globally.

In terms of its relationship to providing uplifting news, DailyGood serves as a counterbalance to the often negative and sensationalist narratives prevalent in traditional news outlets. By delivering content that emphasizes compassion, innovation, and collective well-being, it encourages readers to engage with the world in a more constructive and optimistic way. The site also offers newsletters and other resources to help people stay informed about positive developments and to inspire action toward creating a better world. Through this focus, DailyGood fosters a community of individuals committed to celebrating humanity's potential for good.

1. The Circle That Will Not Close

   When Shoukei Matsumoto led a simple floor-sweeping exercise at a gathering, he noticed nearly everyone had the same story running through their minds: "Am I doing this right? Faster. Get it done." Beneath that voice, Matsumoto notes, is an ethos of optimization. "The word optimization, by itself, is empty. You always optimize toward something. Toward 'clean,' when sweeping. Toward 'results,' at...

2. The 'Civic Hour' in France

   When a French civil servant read that an elderly woman in Paris had been deceased in her apartment for four months before anyone noticed, he didn't just shrug and move on with his day -- he asked what kind of society allows that to happen, and then quietly set about changing it. The result is l'Heure Civique ("Civic Hour"), a growing movement across France that asks nothing more of its...

3. How I Practiced Forgiveness When It Hurt the Most

   After Maria Breaux's brother David -- known as "the Compassion Guy" in Davis, California, after 14 years of collecting definitions of compassion from strangers -- was stabbed to death as he slept on a park bench, she discovered a message he had left her: "If I'm ever harmed or unable to speak for myself, forgive the perpetrator and help others forgive that person." Sitting yards away from his...

4. Colorado Mayor Sleeps at Homeless Shelter Every Week

   Mike Coffman, a U.S. military veteran who held many government offices, and is the current mayor of Aurora, Colorado, spent a week in homeless encampments to learn from the inhabitants. As mayor, he didn’t talk about it, or hire consultants to study it; he went to see and listen to people first hand. As “Homeless Mike,” he slept “covered with a tarp as temperatures dipped...

5. The Man Who Uncovers Remarkable Forgotten Lives

   Scrolling through videos on social media, one man was about to swipe past Simon Howard's video of researching the history of the names on a random grave from 1934, when he realized, "It hit me: that’s exactly who I’ll be in a century. Just some random guy with his own ego, desires and goals, completely forgotten." Simon Howard, whose work involves helping people trace their ancestral...

6. Smashing Yesterday's Croissants for a Better Tomorrow

   At a Paris bakery called Demain (the French word for "tomorrow"), yesterday's unsold croissants and sourdough loaves don't go to waste; they go on sale for half price, rescued from partner bakeries across the city and given a second chance to nourish someone. "All of this would have ended up in the trashcan," says co-founder Martin Herbelin, gesturing at counters piled with almond croissants and...

7. The Town That Gave Trees Legal Rights

   In a small Quebec town of 2,000 people, something quietly extraordinary happened on June 9th: city council voted unanimously to recognize trees as living beings with rights of their own -- the right to life, to natural growth, to integrity, and to regeneration. Terrasse-Vaudreuil, built in the woods west of Montreal, became the first municipality in Canada to sign the Universal Declaration of...

8. A Wall Street Refugee Finds His Poetry Again

   He co-founded a global private equity empire, traveled to over 130 countries, and checked every box the world said mattered. Then, he looked inward and found, as he puts it, "the ego doing all of it." Nguyen Phuong Lam offers a unique reckoning written from inside the machine, by someone who helped run it. Born in Vietnam, Lam traces a journey from refugee to financier to contemplative -- and...

9. The Origin Point of Stories

   There are two places a story can come from, remarks filmmaker Nic Askew, who has sat with thousands of people over decades, being an authentic witness to their stories. One is the calculating mind, which speaks *to* someone with the notion of giving or getting or contributing something. The other is a deeper source that speaks *through* a person once they set that all down. In a short piece of...

10. How a Spinal Cord Injury Seeded a Platform for Dancing with Wheels

    After a 2018 road accident left her paraplegic, Priya Sharma sat in her wheelchair at her sister's wedding and, at her siblings' insistence, danced. It was "the first time I felt joy after the accident," she observed. That moment became the seed of Dance With Wheels, a platform she founded in 2024 that connects women and girls with disabilities across 16 Indian states, offering not choreography...