Kindness often goes unrecognized and can manifest quietly—in a soft voice, a patient pause, or a gentle hand placed on your ...

Sometimes it seems like the world is beginning to fall apart. But there are people who are always ready to mend it. Their ...

Columbus Monthly, The Columbus Dispatch and Columbus CEO celebrate 18 people who are quietly leading with kindness and ...

In times when life moves with noise and pressure, the smallest acts of kindness can spark real change. Within these stories ...

Out of five community-nominated finalists and five finalists chosen from past Dispatch reporting, or "Dispatch Picks," Sean ...

People who treat others with compassion often feel more at ease themselves. This is the key finding of a new study by ...

Kindness. That’s a word we don’t hear a lot these days. Perhaps it seems antiquated in our competitive, social-media-infused, politically contentious culture—reserved for fools and chumps, not for ...

Kindness is sometimes dismissed as a simplistic virtue comprised of “being nice.” But how do kids think about kindness—and could understanding kindness help us to teach and promote kindness more ...

Kindness and compassion are considered to be instrumental buffers for the negative effects of stress, thought to be perpetuated by strengthening positive interpersonal connections. Several studies ...

It’s at this time of year that so many people feel a sense of grief during the holidays. While so many of us are enjoying family and friends during the holidays, there are thousands of people who wish ...

Ann Paradis, left, Maili Bailey, director of The Evening Sandwich Program, and Gwen Hawes make sandwiches Tuesday at ...

Popular waypoints are nice, but the lesser-known ones, and the people you meet there, will change you. The post The Currency ...