Who Puts The Good Into Good Deed?

Joan Hornig set a college goal to earn enough money by age 50 to be able to help others

. In 2003 at age 48 she'd earned enough in private equity investing to reach her goal. In the same year a friend suggested she show her self-designed jewelry to Bergdorf Goodman. Hornig's first collection sold in 5 days. Each piece of jewelry comes with a card saying she'll donate 100% of her profits to the charity of the buyer's choice. By 2009 her foundation had donated almost $750,000 to more than 600 causes. Hornig's cause is helping others to help others.

Linda Hill's approach to fighting cancer is laughter. This single mother of 7 children was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 19. By 2009 at age 48 she'd had breast, colon, spleen and thyroid cancer; but the produce manager for a food distributor keeps laughing. To help other cancer patients laugh, Hill put her humor on 800 different T-shirts. The #1 seller says, "Of course they're fake, the real ones tried to kill me". Sold on her Web site and at cancer centers across the country, the shirts are about $25. Hill's attitude - priceless.

Eileen Smulder founded "Blankets of Love" in 2008. This nonprofit organization provides donated blankets to animals in Los Angeles shelters. According to the Compassion Action Institute in New York, shelter animals that are given blankets to rest on feel safer and are better able to relax and adjust to their new environment. Because potential adopters are more attracted to animals that look relaxed and friendly and because the blankets provide a more homey setting, blankets have proven to increase adoptions. In 2008 Blankets of Love collected 150,000 blankets and other comfort items. In Smulder's case do-gooder should be spelled dog-ooder.

Dave Sharpe suffered post traumatic stress syndrome after serving in Iraq, often waking in the night punching walls or kicking the refrigerator. After adopting a shelter dog things changed. He had someone else to focus on, someone to talk to without the fear of being judged. Inspired by his experience Sharpe, who lives outside Washington D.C., started Pets2Vets, a group that pairs vets with shelter dogs. Since October 2009 two or three matches have been made a week and there are plans to expand the program across the country starting in 2010. Pets2vets is a win-win situation. Man's best friend gets a best friend too.

by: Knight Pierce Hirst

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