[8] The two refer to the site as "Chicken Soup for the Soul – the 21st Century, Twitter-style version.

At Henry M. Gunn high school in Palo Alto, California, four students committed suicide in a period of 8 months.

To cope with the grief, students created a blog, modeled after GivesMeHope, to provide a place for members of the community to share their uplifting experiences at the school.

[9] Another movement of hope inspired by GivesMeHope is Operation Beautiful, a website whose mission is to end "Fat Talk.” [10] Participants of Operation Beautiful leave anonymous post-it notes with encouraging messages in public places for other women to find and be inspired by.

[12] On August 2, 2010, CNN stated that GivesMeHope was a website that may "help renew your faith in the goodness of the human experience."