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NBC 7’s Dave Summers spoke to a San Diego County tech executive who put his day job on pause to help Ukrainian refugees in Poland.

With no political agenda, just a desire to help, a local biotech company executive signed up for duty at the World Central Kitchens in Poland to feed Ukrainian refugees.

An Escondido business owner raised $60,000 and packed 16 suitcases with medical kits and other items to bring to families displaced by the war in Ukraine.

Finland has been named the world’s happiest country for the fifth year in a row, according to an annual report.

Small daily gestures of compassion and kindness can really impact the way your children show up for others. Here are the toxic parenting mistakes that can make kids more selfish and entitled, according to a parenting expert and child psychologist.

Guide Dogs of America – Tender Loving Canines is seeking volunteer puppy raisers in San Diego to socialize the future service dogs and teach them basic obedience until they are old enough to get formal training.

An underwater pipeline leak off the coast of Huntington Beach, California, has sent tens of thousands of gallons of oil into the Pacific Ocean impacting wildlife and the environment and leaving many wondering: How can I help?

That’s not seaweed on the beach…After an oil spill closed beaches in Huntington Beach, California, crews are on the scene trying to clean up local wildlife and stop oil from clogging up rivers and harming marine life there. NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain shows us a closed beach with oil all over the sand.

Following a recent influx of cats and dogs, the San Diego County Department of Animal Services’ two shelters are nearly full, and department officials are asking the public to consider adopting or fostering animals.

With the warm weather, more people are crowding our coastline to enjoy the weekend, but there is an ugly side to all the fun. The weekend parties meant there was a huge pile of trash along the bay Sunday morning.

As COVID-19 vaccinations continue to ramp up across California, the state is deploying a work-for-a-shot program for volunteers.

If you’re doing OK financially during the coronavirus pandemic, you may want to consider donating your $600 stimulus check. Here’s how.

The annual fall-starting event, which is all about cleaning the park after summer wraps, will be about sprucing your home turf in 2020.

It’s time to Clear The Shelters! Malou Nubla found an inspirational teenager in Oakland who is living with a debilitating disease but also helping to save animal lives.

Local carpenters have volunteered to board up area businesses who fear they may be looted. NBC 7’s Nicole Gomez has more details.

About 20 local carpenters from the Southwest Region of Carpenters Local 619 helped roughly 15 downtown businesses board up windows and doors Friday morning, as a precaution should any civil unrest continue this weekend.

Thanks to thousands of local volunteers, about 300,000 pieces of once-defective face masks can be used to protect medical staff at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19.

About 100 San Diego volunteers have answered the call to repair hundreds of thousands of defective protective masks that would otherwise be unusable by local health care workers on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19.

NBC 7’s Dave Summers introduces us to two sisters who started a network of volunteers who shop for non-English speaking elderly folks.

Language and cultural barriers can make caring for the elderly in some San Diego communities difficult, but two sisters started a grass roots volunteer movement to help solve it. It was a post on Facebook of an older man staring at empty  grocery shelves that compelled these two sisters to create COVID-19 Community Outreach. “We have to fix this....