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 corporate organizations and provide them to orphans and vulnerable children in Southern Africa and Haiti—basic stuff like school uniforms, school supplies, and health and hygiene materials.
Sounds like a challenging [...]
Melissa Kushner, founder of Goods for Good, repurposes all she has learned about creating successful global partnerships
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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 orphanages and a hospital on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Goods for Good is providing School Packs, which include a Johnson & Johnson tote bag, pens, and notepads, [...]
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 photographer Brian Marcus exhibited and auctioned off his moving series Malawi: Images of Progress to benefit Goods for Good, a non-profit organization that finds surplus products from U.S. corporations and funnels them to vulnerable [...]
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 for Good (founded in 2006) at the Chelsea Art Museum, raising awareness of the plight of the Malawian people as well as some much [...]
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 about is not just some sort of external makeover, but it is a richness that extend into all areas of our [...]
Finding Charity in Everyday Life: The Goods for Good Project by Melissa Lafsky This year, on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, the Huffington Post headlined with a powerful and inspiring quote from the reverend himself: “Life’s Most Persistent And Urgent Question Is: What Are You Doing For Others?” It isn’t a hypothetical question or a platitude — [...]
Malawi: Images of Progress, a photography exhibit and auction by Brian Marcus to benefit Goods for Good, was a huge success! On February 1st, over 500 guests came out to Chelsea Art Museum to view Brian’s series of photographs from his March 2009 trip to Malawi with Goods for Good. With your help, we raised over [...]
Didn’t get a chance to order prints at the event? It’s not too late to get one! Until Monday, February 22nd all of Brian’s beautiful prints from his Malawi: Images of Progress series are available by order. To order a print: 1. View images from the exhibition here 2. Choose a print and a size. 11×14 = $125 / [...]
