Not quite the same thing, but I am very impressed by local charitable giving in New Zealand where I live. Recently, for example, a local family's rental house caught fire and was burned to the ground. They lost pretty much everything – furniture, clothes, children's toys, photographs and other memorabilia. Local people wrangled – not so much with money – but with p[laces to sleep and meals, nappies and toys, food and bed linen and sheer physical help salvaging anything that was salvageable. This was only one instance of "ordinary" people helping out. There have been many stories of plumbers, electricians, chippies, builders and others contributing their skills to help out families in trouble.
Sometimes they knew about the dire situation because they were local but sometimes they knew because there was some kind of electronic appeal. Either way, how good is that?