June 2011
1 post
Round 2: Toms Shoes & Goods for Good →
Over 40,000 pairs of TOMS Shoes just arrived in Malawi!
Goods for Good and TOMS Shoes have teamed up for the second year in a row to provide new shoes for over 40,000 schoolchildren in…
October 2010
2 posts
Melissa Kushner Receives Torch Award →
Melissa Kushner, Founder and Executive Director of Goods for Good, has been selected to receive the 2010 Torch Award from the Robert Wagner School of Public Service at NYU. The Torch…
TOMS Shoes Arrive in Malawi! →
TOMS Shoes, a pioneer in the buy-one-give-one business model, recently donated 39,314 pairs of shoes to Goods for Good – one pair for every school-aged child we support. We’re taking…
August 2010
1 post
Send a Child Back to School →
Only 27% of children in Malawi complete elementary school. Many drop out because they lack something as basic as a pen or a school uniform. Renald Banikani, pictured here, stopped going to school…
June 2010
1 post
BIC Malawi Donates to G4G →
Great news from the field this week: BIC Malawi donated over 96,000 items to Goods for Good! BIC’s donation included over 80,000 pens and the always-hard-to-come-by fun stuff like…
May 2010
4 posts
lighting up luzi →
Light Up Malawi, a venture to bring 100% sustainable energy to Malawi, recently donated a solar power charger to Goods for Good partner organization Luzi. Founded and run by Malawians,…
remembering elijah gondwe →
Today we have all lost a visionary man, a leader and a true hero in the effort to develop Malawi and provide opportunity for its people. Elijah Gondwe, the Director of Luzi Community…
NextGen Africa →
You’re Invited to NextGen Africa- A FREE Forum Hosted by Goods for Good
Please join Goods for Good, The Vice President of Malawi, The Right Honorable Joyce Banda and over 30…
5th graders collect change for change →
At the beginning of the school year, River Bend Elementary School’s 5th grade class decided to institute a school-wide fundraiser to support an under-resourced classroom in Malawi. They…
March 2010
3 posts
ramaz students give more than books →
Students at Ramaz Upper School in NYC are donating their copies of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, a story about the innovative William Kamkwamba, to Goods for Good, who will deliver…
rising textile waste in retail sector →
Accord to an article by the The Ecologist, commercial textile waste has risen to more than 1 million tons in recent years, rising from around 7% of total waste five years ago to 30%…
go 4 good volunteers are back! →
Go 4 Good volunteers Deena and Joanna recently returned to NYC from their 6 week stay in Malawi. The two women were working with Goods for Good partner Tiyambe Nawo community-based…
February 2010
8 posts
elle magazine →
Caught Reading: Melissa Kushner, Founder and Executive Director of Goods for Good, by Nojan Aminosharei
What does Goods for Good do? We basically take surplus goods from…
TEDx Atlanta →
Melissa Kushner, founder of Goods for Good, repurposes all she has learned about creating successful global partnerships
Click here to read more about Melissa Kushner
G4G and Afya Partner in Haiti →
Goods for Good and Afya Foundation, a nonprofit supplying medical support to health initiatives worldwide, are working together to provide support to displaced residents in one tent-camp, three…
what is james wearing? →
Goods for Good, by James Andrew
We at WIJW often speak about “elevated living,” and if you’ve read our thoughts on the subject then you will know that the sort of richness we are talking…
new york insider tv →
One ‘Good’ Turn Deserves Another, by Wendy Furrer
It was an evening of fabulous photographs and philanthropy at the Chelsea Art Museum last night. Award-winning celebrity photographerBrian Marcus
scallywag & vagabond →
Goods for Good Gives a Helping Hand to the People of Malawi, by Christopher Koulouris
This past Monday night saw a very abundant turnout in support of Melissa Kushner’s foundation, Goods…
The Huffington Post →
Finding Charity in Everyday Life: The Goods for Good Project size> by Melissa Lafskysize>
This year, on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, the Huffington Post headlined with a powerful…
order prints today →
Didn’t get a chance to order prints at the event?
Until Monday, February 15th all prints from Brian Marcus’ Malawi: Images of Progress series are available by order. To…
January 2010
11 posts
Pack 4 Good →
This past Sunday, five wonderful volunteers from Rotaract International came out to Goods for Good’s warehouse in New Jersey to help us sort and organize goods for our next shipment. All…
Please Support Our Partners in Haiti →
Tuesday’s earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the region’s worst natural disaster in the last 200 years, has left the country devastated. The situation is truly beyond comprehension and like…
kipton art →
Celebrity Photographer Brian Marcus Exhibits Work to Benefit Goods for Good
Celebrity photographer Brian Marcus, of Fred Marcus Photography, is pleased to present ”Malawi:…
whom you know →
Goods for Good Launches Special Collection of Holiday Ecards Sending Holiday Greetings with Meaning by Peachy Deegan
Non-profit Goods for Good has teamed up with a roster of some of the…
g4g’s model is a responsible alternative →
Goods for Good recently employed Green Forest Sustainability Solutions to determine the environmental impact of sending excess goods to needy places such as Malawi. While the materials we send are…
Women’s Collaborative Circle →
Speaking Her Voice: Q&A Melissa Kushner
What really goes on in a woman’s mind? Melissa Kushner, Executive Director and Founder of Goods for Good took time out of her very busy schedule to…
daily candy →
Last Minute Gift Ideas, Goods for Good Ecards
Goods for Good teamed up with five artists to create a series of holiday e-cards, which matches excess goods from the United States (often…
coolhunting.com →
Goods for Good Holiday Ecards, by Karen Day
Designed by five NYC- and London-based graphic artists and illustrators, nonprofit Goods for Good’sholiday ecards one-ups others with…
elle news →
Holiday Cards for a Cause, by Johanna Cox
It’s only 10 days until Christmas, which means you’ve got somewhere between five to seven days (depending on the proximity of your friends and family…
whomyouknow.com →
Movers and Shakers: Melissa Kushner, Founder and Executive Director of Goods for Good, by Peachy Deegan
Melissa Kushner, Founder and Executive Director of Goods for Good, has spent her…
Kids Who Do Kare →
Yesterday we received a wonderful surprise in the mail from Kids Who Do Kare, a group of outstanding kids from Burlington, CT that participate in various charitable fund-raising activities. In just…
December 2009
6 posts
Match 4 Good Surpasses Goal →
When G4G launched our Match 4 Good campaign on December 1st our goal was to raise $20,000 by the end of the year to help fund our Tailor-in-Training Workshop, a program that teaches…
20,000 Uniforms for Good →
This year, Goods for Good successfully piloted our Tailor-in-Training Workshop, a new program that teachers young adults, many of whom are orphans, how to sew. G4G provides these…
Annual Rainbow Festival →
We just received pictures from St. Mary’s Orphan Care’s Chaka Cha Rainbow festival, which celebrates the end of the academic schoool year and the beginning of the holiday season. The…
G4G on NBC Nightly News →
Goods for Good on NBC’s “Making a Difference” Segment from Melissa Kushner on Vimeo.
Melissa Kushner, “Born to Do Good” →
Melissa Kushner:”Born to Do Good” from Melissa Kushner on Vimeo.
G4G-Donated Center Benefits Community →
In 2008 Goods for Good donated a community center to Nkagamira village to advance early childhood education in the area. This article, recently published in Malawian newspaper The…
November 2009
3 posts
Link →
Program Manager Patricia Schmiedigen brought back these beautiful drawings created by the children at St. Maria of Mediatrix, a G4G partner and orphan care center in Malawi. St. Maria…
Good News from St. Mary’s →
Goods for Good provides material support to 183 community-based organizations, public schools and orphan care centers in Malawi. St. Mary’s Rehabilitation Center was our first program…
Staff Profile: Blessings Lungu →
G4G’s new Malawi Program Manager, Blessings Lungu, received his B.S. in Environmental Health from the University of Malawi and has spent his entire career working with NGOs in Malawi. He…
October 2009
8 posts
Help Spread the Word! →
Soccer is the favorite sport of the children we serve. Yet more often than not, they have no sports equiptment with which to play. When they don’t have a proper soccer ball, they either…
G4G collaborates with VP of Malawi →
Vice President of Malawi Joyce Banda requested the help of Melissa Kushner, Founder and Executive Director of Goods for Good, to help her secure essential medical equipment for…
shipment arrives in malawi →
Our 40 foot container packed full of donated excess goods has just arrived in Malawi!
After a long journey at sea, 800 calculators, 4,000 bottles of anti-bacterial soap, 2,800 …
Welcome Blessings! →
The Goods for Good program department is very excited to announce a new addition to the team! Blessings Lungu will be continuing the work of Aaron Lewani as the Goods for Good Malawi Program…
International Day of Rural Woman →
October 15th is International Day of Rural Women.
International Day of Rural Women was launched as an empowerment and educational campaign in 1995 during a UN Conference on Women. It is…
New Jersey School Raises $1,800 →
Waterfront Montessori School in New Jersey raised over $1,800 for Goods for Good through a student-run carnival. Each student created his or her own booth, which featured such awesome…
Malawian Chief Applauds Goods for Good! →
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind →
The story of William Kamkwamba, aka The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, is one of true ingenuity and potential.
From a small village in central Malawi, William was forced to quit school at…
September 2009
13 posts
Dialing for Answers →
This NYT article profiles Question Box, an innovative nonprofit telephone hotline that connects people from rural areas to the information they need.
The concept behind Question Box…
A Third Way to Think about AID →
The debate over foreign aid often pits those who mistrust “charity” against those who mistrust reliance on the markets. Jaqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, proposes a middle way she…