Helping Others

A few years ago, disability rights advocate Sara Granda approached city officials in Davis with the idea of creating a grant program to help the town's disabled and elderly residents modify their houses to allow wheelchair accessibility.

Six Del Campo High School students are on a mission – that of helping other kids in the Sacramento region.

The fragrance of fresh flowers fills the air at the meditation center as nurses arrive to have their hands blessed by the Rev. Arthur Lillicropp, an Episcopal priest.

About 13,500 people – clad in white and pink T-shirts – descended on Cal Expo on Saturday for the 17th annual Komen Race for the Cure.

The world of Miguel Armando Rodriguez was plunged into darkness and shadow last year when he had to quit his job doing maintenance at Yolo County Housing because of cataracts.

The mystery donor who gave $50,000 to help rebuild the fire-ravaged McKinley Park playground was revealed Friday.

A mystery donor is stepping forward to help rebuild the fire-ravaged McKinley Park playground.

It's 7 a.m. and a laughing group of fifth- and sixth-graders graders is boisterously learning how to fly handmade helicopters.

The Sacramento area's first 24-hour online giving drive for arts groups raised more than $400,000.

Thousands of donors participated in the Sacramento area's first 24-hour online giving challenge for arts groups, raising nearly $380,000 as of 8 p.m. Monday for local nonprofit arts groups.

Sitting at a booth outside the Capitol, Bill Spahn pleasantly fields questions from the public on behalf of the Crime Victims Assistance Network Foundation, also known as iCan.

A Sacramento culinary school will be selling chowder to benefit victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.

For every dinner served at its restaurant Thursday, the Hyatt Regency in downtown Sacramento will make a donation to the Sacramento Youth Symphony.

A plumbing catastrophe has destroyed computer equipment that helps thousands of blind people in the Sacramento area access daily news, TV listings, advertisements and other crucial information.

For every dinner served at its restaurant on Thursday, the Hyatt Regency in downtown Sacramento will make a donation to the Sacramento Youth Symphony.

Under a gray-blue sky streaked with pale yellow, Wilkie Liang lowers an American flag in front of the Hall of Justice on Freeport Boulevard.

The families of newlyweds Patrick and Jessica Kensky Downes, each of whom lost a leg in the Boston Marathon bombing Monday, say their shaken faith in humanity was quickly restored by the generosity of those responding to an online giving campaign.

An online fundraising effort for a former Sacramento woman and her husband who were severely injured when bombs detonated at the Boston Marathon was fast approaching its $100,000 goal Wednesday night.

Tad Suwa, who is on medical leave from his job as a Sacramento firefighter, is getting some special attention from Team Donate Life.

Erika Dennis began fundraising for CARES when she was a sophomore in high school, which inspired her to later pursue a career in public health.

Jason Wada, 18, spends his spring break sweating in the sun to put up a basketball hoop and to paint lines on the asphalt at the Salvation Army's transitional living center near Interstate 80 and Watt Avenue.

When he had two working legs, Steve Martin didn't care much for skiing.

Elk Grove Unified School District will host a Night at the River Cats on May 3 as a fundraiser to benefit the school district's athletic programs.

Christina Preston, founder of the grassroots Shoes4Sacramento, finds rewards in providing the needy with something so simple yet so important.

In the past two months, California Highway Patrol Officer Rick Murray has done more than keep the speeds down on Sacramento freeways – he has used lifesaving skills to restore breathing to both a toddler and a woman.

Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin teaches speech pathology at California State University, Sacramento, by day and collects books for children by night.

Sacramento's new beer hall LowBrau will host a fundraiser Saturday night to contribute to a reward fund for information in the case of Josiah Humphreys, the 28-year-old man fatally beaten in midtown earlier this month.

Bailey Snow isn't like other kids. His Twitter feed says otherwise: He started his spring break at Disneyland, just got his driver's permit and thinks his family is annoying.

Cheerful music plays softly in the background of the sunny playroom at Sutter Children's Center, Sacramento.

The Capital Unity Center – the anti-bigotry nonprofit that shut down last year after running out of money – is poised to come back to life in a new, 4,000-square-foot gallery at the California Museum.