Five weeks after a stranger in a supermarket parking lot took him up on his offer to buy him and his mom donuts in exchange for carrying grocery bags, Chauncy Jones Black has $340,000 in the bank to use toward college and a new home, along with the job he always wanted: cutting lawns with a riding mower in Memphis. "I'm so grateful - people have been wonderful," Chauncy, 16, tells People. "Me and Matt White are pretty much family now." Matt White, 30, is a Memphis singer and songwriter who gave the teen and his mother, Barbara Black, 61, a brighter future after...
- 7/22/2016
- by Cathy Free, @cathyjfree
- PEOPLE.com
Five weeks after a stranger in a supermarket parking lot took him up on his offer to buy him and his mom donuts in exchange for carrying grocery bags, Chauncy Jones Black has $340,000 in the bank to use toward college and a new home, along with the job he always wanted: cutting lawns with a riding mower in Memphis. "I'm so grateful - people have been wonderful," Chauncy, 16, tells People. "Me and Matt White are pretty much family now." Matt White, 30, is a Memphis singer and songwriter who gave the teen and his mother, Barbara Black, 61, a brighter future after...
- 7/22/2016
- by Cathy Free, @cathyjfree
- PEOPLE.com
A Memphis teenager who offered to carry groceries in exchange for donuts for him and his mom has now received more than $300,000 in GoFundMe donations to help lift his family out of poverty. "It's so awesome - my life has been completely changed," Chauncy Jones Black, 16, tells People. "I can't go anywhere now without people recognizing me. They go, 'Oh, my God, you're Chauncy!' And I'm like, 'Yes, ma'am.' I'm very happy and very grateful to everybody." On the evening of June 9, Chauncy went to a Kroger grocery store, hoping to get food donations in exchange for helping...
- 6/28/2016
- by Cathy Free, @cathyjfree
- PEOPLE.com
A Memphis teenager who offered to carry groceries in exchange for donuts for him and his mom has now received more than $300,000 in GoFundMe donations to help lift his family out of poverty. "It's so awesome - my life has been completely changed," Chauncy Jones Black, 16, tells People. "I can't go anywhere now without people recognizing me. They go, 'Oh, my God, you're Chauncy!' And I'm like, 'Yes, ma'am.' I'm very happy and very grateful to everybody." On the evening of June 9, Chauncy went to a Kroger grocery store, hoping to get food donations in exchange for helping...
- 6/28/2016
- by Cathy Free, @cathyjfree
- PEOPLE.com
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