NEW YORK — Lauren Click founded a nonprofit a few years ago offering free composting education to schools around the country. Today, 112 schools participate, yet she can’t get her boyfriend to ...

When life feels rough, our instinct may be to retreat and withdraw from the world. But reaching out and helping others can ...

Regularly volunteering can reduce the rate of cognitive aging by around 15–20 percent, according to research by a team from ...

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For years, philosophers and psychologists have debated whether empathy helps or hinders the ways people decide how to help others. Critics of empathy argue that it makes people care too ...

Helping others is good for you. That’s not cliche, that’s science. Two years ago, Harvard researchers published a study about the “Helper’s High,” showing how your brain churns up a burst of the ...

Imagine it’s Saturday morning. You’re sipping coffee when your best friend texts, “Any chance you could help me move today?” You sigh—there go your weekend plans—but reply, “Of course.” That afternoon ...

More likely than not, someone in your community — whether friend, family or neighbor — uses SNAP benefits. As millions of people could lose access to food assistance programs during the government ...