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Early in 1995 I was walking on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado and now and again placing quarters in parking meters that had run out.  A woman walked out of a building and immediately said to me “You just put your money in the wrong parking meter!”  I replied, “No I didn’t and kept walking.”  She followed strongly with “Yes you did, that is my car there and you just put your money in my meter.”  I said “yes, I did not want you to get a ticket and your meter had run out.”  She then quizzically said, “Do I know you?”  I replied that she did not and watched her expression change from quizzical to amazed and back again quickly as she questioned further, “So you put money in someone’s parking meter that has run out so that they don’t get a ticket and you do not know them and just then walk away?”  I said, “yes.”  The woman thought for a second and then she said something that has now changed many things for me, “Oh my God, I love that!  I am going to find something nice to do for someone that I don’t know today and everyday from now on!  I love this!”

That is when I decided that my random acts did not end with the act itself but could perpetuate other acts and others beyond them and create a “Butterfly Effect” perhaps lightening the day of many people.  The old adage that, “a butterfly flaps its wings in Japan and creates a typhoon halfway around the world,” is what I was thinking about.

As an inventor and serial entrepreneur I couldn’t get this incepted thought out of my head and spent several sleepless nights trying to figure out a way to create a “Butterfly Effect” that could perhaps influence many people at once and have a longer lasting positive effect. As I was reading the newspaper one day I noticed that virtually all of the stories were negative and realized that those stories must be having the opposite effect  on millions of people daily from what I hoped to create.  I thought there must be hundreds of untold stories out there about good things happening the world over that simply were not being told.  This was the light bulb in my mind moment and the seed for the idea of serving up an alternative to the daily inundations of bad news with our own newspaper…Good News Daily.

Through life’s normal trials and tribulations my wife and I have kept it going as a labor of love since that time.  Working on it in the wee hours and whenever we have a spare moment for nearly twenty years now.  Our hope is to bring a smile to someone’s face and that they too might bring a little cheer to someone else and help us to create the “Butterfly Effect” again and again.

We have received countless letters from people who have benefited from GoodNewsDaily.com as well as those simply excited about what we are doing.

Our mission is to provide a positive alternative to the overwhelming inundation of negative news pervading our planet and in so doing begin a daily “Butterfly Effect” with each reader that in turn has a little hand in making our world better for all.

We are asking all who read our little newspaper to be on the lookout for good stories and send them in and tell everyone you can!

The Impact

Good News Daily positively impacts lives everyday and gives people worldwide an alternative to the normal inundations of bad news from television, web and radio news.  Our stories give people a great start to the day and whenever they come back, a little respite from challenges and some news.  We put a smile on their faces and help to start the Butterfly Effect all over again!

We have been doing this successfully for over 27 years now on a smaller scale than we are hoping to now but in that time have made tens of thousands of people feel better about their lives and the world in which we live. These funds will help us reach hundreds of thousands more, perhaps even millions more!  Your contribution makes you truly a part of a significant positive impact that reverberates over and over again around our world.  Stories about what is happening good in our world each and every day, heroes, positive environmental impacts, new inventions and ideas, children, space, good deeds, life in abundance, happiness, health, travel, careers, life, fun etc. etc.

A little help can go a long way!!  Your contribution in any amount helps tremendously and will help us toward our goal to greatly expand GoodNewsDaily!  If we don’t reach our whole goal that is ok as every dollar will go to helping us expand and helping more people live better happier lives.  You can also of course contribute greatly by sending our site on to as many people as you know and by sending us stories about you, your family or anything that will make people smile and the butterfly effect to begin!  You can also use Indiegogo share tools.  Please help us to make our world just a little better…together it gets better!!

Risks and Challenges

Remember that no matter what you contribute you will be helping.  Helping the many people who will read our stories and feel better about their lives.  People who will help us spread good news to others and who will start butterfly effects of their own as they do something nice for someone somewhere.  You, through your donation become part of a great system designed to help our world get better each and every day….Good News Daily!  There is no risk only reward.

Other ways you can help

Send us your good news stories!  Everyday thousands of good things happen in every city on earth from someone helping someone they don’t know with a glass of water to a hero saving a life and everything in between.  Each time we include a story someone sends or tells us about we help people. You can be a part of that!

Secondly, you can help by telling people about us.  Send our link out to everyone you know and tell them how reading it can make you feel good!!  There is always good happening just not reported. Such as during the Iraq war we received a story about in the midst of all of the bad in the war some U.S. Marines were digging irrigation trenches in their off time to help local farmers or children in cities in India had started picking up a little trash each day that was making a positive impact on the entire region.

No matter what you do from sending in a donation to forwarding us a story to writing one of your own to telling everyone you know about us…you are helping.  YOU can make a difference in our world and we very much appreciate your help. 

If you like what we are doing please email, text, post and tell your friends and family about our campaign and our global project for good. Life is and was always meant to be good, just sometimes we get caught up in the weeds and don’t see or recognize all of the good that is happening around us every minute of every day.

Please help GoodNewsDaily.com, after 27 years of devoted service to our people and our planet to expand, reach more people, upgrade our website, help more of our world to understand how great humankind really is whenever they want to be. Help us to begin more positive “Butterfly Effects” worldwide and expand our mission to reach people who have never heard of us but now will. Together we can make it better!!

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Paul and Celerina