Two lucky winners of the Live Auction Lake Malawi Trip will enjoy two roundtrip tickets South African Airways and a five-night stay at the most exclusive resorts on the Lake. Thank you to our generous sponsors for making this trip possible.
If you haven’t purchased a gala ticket yet, click here and join us.
The gala silent auction features a range of exclusive experiences. Gala tickets are limited. Purchase your tickets here before they sell out.
Can’t attend the gala? You can still bid. Call 646.963.6076 to place your bid now.
live auction
Two roundtrip flights on South African Airways and five-night stay at exclusive resorts on the lake
entertainment
Two VIP tickets to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on the day of your choice
Four VIP tickets to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on the day of your choice
food
Custom four-person tasting experience and tour of New York’s Eataly
“Chicken and Egg” chef’s tasting menu for four at New York’s Locanda Verde Restaurant
fashion
Two tickets and backstage passes to the Jason Wu Fashion Show at New York Fashion Week; meet and greet with Jason (Sept. 7, 2012)
Earrings designed by renowned jewelry designer Monique Pean
music
Two premium tickets to the Madonna concert at Madison Square Garden (Nov. 12, 2012)
sports
Four premium tickets to a New York Knicks game (2012-2013 season)
Two premium tickets to a mutually agreed upon New York Rangers game (2012-2013 season)
Two premium box seats to the New York Jets vs. Houston Texans game (Oct. 8, 2012)
We are excited to announce that KKLD has generously donated a Vespa to the gala for good raffle.
Raffle tickets can be purchased now and at the gala on May 10th. Buy 1 ticket for $25 or a package of 5 tickets for $100. Enter here for your chance to win. The winner will be announced at the event.
Thandi, our Tailoring Program Coordinator, sent over this photo from the program launch at Bright Vision Community Center. Students are enrolled in a rigorous six-month curriculum that includes technical skills training and job readiness workshops. Thandi’s photo shows the tailoring students’ progress so far. Off to a good start! More to come from Thandi and Bright Vision. 
As you know, donations such as pens and sewing machines are critical to our programs – programs that keep children in school and create jobs for vulnerable adults.
This week our team in Malawi delivered 35 sewing machines (pictured here) to our partner community centers. Thanks to this shipment, six tailor training courses will begin in January 2012. 72 tailors will graduate with the skills to become professional tailors. They will create over 4,000 school uniforms for children during their training.
In order to sustain this program that benefits so many vulnerable people, we need the following:
Please email info@goods4good.org or click here if you can help.
The holidays are here and we can only imagine how long your shopping lists are. Thanks to our friends at ReQoop, you can do a little good while you shop this year:
goods for good empowers local leaders to care for the orphans and vulnerable children in their communities. This photo says it all. Click here to learn more.
Community Collection is an online shopping destination featuring a selection of product from the world’s most influential fashion designers, sold in support of the causes they care about. We are honored to be one of these causes.
goods for good receives 20% of the proceeds from every purchase made during one of our assigned designer sales. This link is updated regularly with new sale items:
Each year, goods for good strategically distributes school supplies to encourage student enrollment. This year was no different.
Word spread quickly across our partner communities that children who enrolled in school would receive school supplies. Elated by the prospect of receiving their very first pens, pencils, and notebooks, thousands of orphans and children in need walked many miles to enroll. goods for good equipped each child with a year’s worth of supplies, thanks to your support.
$10 gives an orphan or children in need supplies for an entire school year. Thousands more children are eager to attend school, but unable to afford supplies.
Share. Give. Let’s do more good together.
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 Malawi. Last year, TOMS and goods for good kicked of our partnership by coordinating the targeted distribution of 40,000 shoes -one pair for each child in need supported by our partner community centers. And this year, we’re doing it all again, expanding support to 10,000 more children under the age of five.
Sadly, shoes are a luxury for children in Malawi, particularly for orphans and vulnerable children who lack the resources to purchase them. Walking barefoot puts these children at high risk for injury and infections such as hookworm, which can cause anemia, diarrhea and stunted mental development if left untreated. For the children who have no one to provide for them or monitor their health, the repercussions are far-reaching: impaired learning, increased absences from school and decreased future economic productivity are all serious concerns. By working hand-in-hand with community centers, we are able to reach the children who need assistance most. While not every child will be taken to a clinic if they become sick, most every child will show up on distribution day to receive what is likely their first pair of new shoes.
This year’s shipment of TOMS shoes is expected to arrive in Malawi this weekend and distributions will take place in the next two weeks.
Thank you to TOMS shoes for their continued commitment to goods for good’s mission of providing a better future for Malawi’s orphans and vulnerable children.
