Goods4Good’s blog on what we’re doing in the U.S. and abroad.Tumblr (3.0; @goods4good)http://goods4good.tumblr.com/<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/12/09/20000-uniforms-for-good/">20,000 Uniforms for Good</a>: <p><a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/match-4-good" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-133518787" title="1" src="http://blog.goods4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1.jpg" alt="1" width="569" height="379"/></a></p> <p>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…</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/276156224http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/276156224Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:43:39 -0500<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/12/03/g4g-on-nbc-nightly-news/">G4G on NBC Nightly News</a>: <p><object width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6038211&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <param name="src" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6038211&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"></object></p> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/6038211">Goods for Good on NBC’s “Making a Difference” Segment</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/goods4good">Melissa Kushner </a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/267815468http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/267815468Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:30:40 -0500<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/12/03/annual-rainbow-festival/">Annual Rainbow Festival</a>: <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-133518770" title="children-lining-up-to-welcome-guests-donning-clothes-whose-fabric-was-donated-by-goods4good" src="http://blog.goods4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/children-lining-up-to-welcome-guests-donning-clothes-whose-fabric-was-donated-by-goods4good.jpg" alt="children-lining-up-to-welcome-guests-donning-clothes-whose-fabric-was-donated-by-goods4good" width="579" height="385"/></p> <p>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…</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/267815476http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/267815476Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:30:40 -0500<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/12/02/133518765/">Melissa Kushner, “Born to Do Good”</a>: <p><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6315191&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"> <embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6315191&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object> </p> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/6315191">Melissa Kushner:”Born to Do Good”</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/goods4good">Melissa Kushner </a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/266810352http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/266810352Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:21:54 -0500<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/12/02/g4g-donated-center-benefits-community/">G4G-Donated Center Benefits Community</a>: <p><a href="http://www.goods4good.org" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-133518745" title="g4g-in-the-news-paper1" src="http://blog.goods4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/g4g-in-the-news-paper1.jpg" alt="g4g-in-the-news-paper1" width="617" height="565"/></a></p> <p>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…</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/266674472http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/266674472Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:20:40 -0500<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/11/18/133518655/">Link</a>: <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/goods4good/sets/72157622829356198/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-133518654" title="pic2" src="http://blog.goods4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/pic2.jpg" alt="pic2" width="590" height="462"/></a></p> <p>Program Manager Patricia Schmiedigen brought back <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/goods4good/sets/72157622829356198/" target="_blank">these beautiful drawings</a> created by the children at St. Maria of Mediatrix, a G4G partner and orphan care center in Malawi. St. Maria…</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/248532828http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/248532828Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:37:12 -0500<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/11/05/good-news-from-st-marys/">Good News from St. Mary’s</a>: <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/goods4good/sets/72157622615344135/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-133518644" title="st-marys-11" src="http://blog.goods4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/st-marys-11.jpg" alt="st-marys-11" width="572" height="429"/></a></p> <p>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…</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/234101015http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/234101015Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:17:36 -0500<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/11/03/staff-profile-blessings-lungu/">Staff Profile: Blessings Lungu</a>: <p><a href="http://www.goods4good.org" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-133518634" title="malawi-program-manager" src="http://blog.goods4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/malawi-program-manager.jpg" alt="malawi-program-manager" width="546" height="363"/></a></p> <p>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…</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/231968492http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/231968492Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:37:51 -0500<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/10/29/help-spread-the-word/">Help Spread the Word!</a>: <p><a href="http://www.goods4good.org" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-133518608 alignleft" title="g4g-soccer-flyer" src="http://blog.goods4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/g4g-soccer-flyer.jpg" alt="g4g-soccer-flyer" width="694" height="898"/></a>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…</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/226954669http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/226954669Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:18:29 -0400<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/10/23/g4g-collaborates-with-vp-of-malawi/">G4G collaborates with VP of Malawi</a>: <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-133518579" title="cimg16023" src="http://blog.goods4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cimg16023-1024x768.jpg" alt="cimg16023" width="580" height="442"/></p> <p>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…</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/221110760http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/221110760Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:23:39 -0400<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/10/21/shipment-arrives-in-malawi/">shipment arrives in malawi</a>: <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/goods4good/sets/72157622495167531/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-133518558" title="40ftcntr024" src="http://blog.goods4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/40ftcntr024-1024x768.jpg" alt="40ftcntr024" width="573" height="430"/></a></p> <p>Our 40 foot container packed full of donated excess goods has just arrived in Malawi!</p> <p style="text-align: left;">After a long journey at sea, <strong>800</strong> calculators,<strong> 4,000</strong> bottles of anti-bacterial soap, <strong>2,800 </strong>…</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/219061496http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/219061496Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:45:41 -0400<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/10/19/welcome-blessings/">Welcome Blessings!</a>: <p>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…</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/217323789http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/217323789Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:59:50 -0400<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/10/15/international-day-of-rural-woman/">International Day of Rural Woman</a>: <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-133518527" title="bam_5461" src="http://blog.goods4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/bam_5461-1024x681.jpg" alt="bam_5461" width="576" height="384"/></p> <p>October 15th is International Day of Rural Women.</p> <p>International Day of Rural Women was launched as an empowerment and educational campaign in 1995 during a UN Conference on Women.  It is…</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/213947931http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/213947931Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:48:08 -0400<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/10/08/new-jersey-school-raises-1800/">New Jersey School Raises $1,800</a>: <p><a href="http://www.goods4good.org"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-133518504" title="img_1643" src="http://blog.goods4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/img_1643-1024x682.jpg" alt="img_1643" width="584" height="389"/></a></p> <p>Waterfront Montessori School in New Jersey raised over <strong>$1,800</strong> for Goods for Good through a student-run carnival. Each student created his or her own booth, which featured such awesome…</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/207589126http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/207589126Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:56:32 -0400<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/10/05/malawian-chief-applauds-goods-for-good/">Malawian Chief Applauds Goods for Good!</a>: <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-133518496" title="scan-006-024" src="http://blog.goods4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/scan-006-024.jpg" alt="scan-006-024" width="574" height="547"/></p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/205199515http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/205199515Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:48:56 -0400<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/10/02/the-boy-who-harnessed-the-wind/">The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind</a>: <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-133518478" title="picture-12-450x472" src="http://blog.goods4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/picture-12-450x472.png" alt="picture-12-450x472" width="450" height="472"/></p> <p>The story of William Kamkwamba, aka <a href="http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/williamkamkwamba/2009/04/my-book-the-boy-who-harnessed-the-wind.html" target="_blank">The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind</a>, is one of true ingenuity and potential.</p> <p>From a small village in central Malawi, William was forced to quit school at…</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/202676115http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/202676115Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:26:25 -0400<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/09/30/dialing-for-answers/">Dialing for Answers</a>: <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-133518466" title="28village02-650" src="http://blog.goods4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/28village02-650.jpg" alt="28village02-650" width="585" height="405"/></p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/technology/internet/28village.html?ref=africa" target="_blank">This</a> NYT article profiles <a href="http://questionbox.org/" target="_blank">Question Box</a>, an innovative nonprofit telephone hotline that connects people from rural areas to the information they need. </p> <p>The concept behind Question Box…</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/201032154http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/201032154Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:48:34 -0400<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/09/28/a-third-way-to-think-about-aid/">A Third Way to Think about AID</a>: <p>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…</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/199679918http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/199679918Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:44:12 -0400<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/09/28/133518444/">Link</a>: <p><p style="text-align: left;">Check out G4G Malawi Program manager Aaron Lewani’s article in Malawian newspaper, The Nation. </p> <p style="text-align: left;"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-133518447" title="lewani-the-nation1" src="http://blog.goods4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/lewani-the-nation1-1024x711.jpg" alt="lewani-the-nation1" width="589" height="409"/></p></p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/199679868http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/199679868Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:44:09 -0400<a href="http://blog.goods4good.org/2009/09/23/malawi-exports-surplus-maize-to-kenya/">Malawi Exports Surplus Maize to Kenya</a>: <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-133518428" title="29770747" src="http://blog.goods4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/29770747.jpg" alt="29770747" width="582" height="410"/></p> <p>The devastating drought that has swept across Kenya, the worst in more than a decade, has left over 4 million Kenyans in urgent need of food assistance. The drought has already killed…</p>http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/195232966http://goods4good.tumblr.com/post/195232966Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:44:30 -0400