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Good Magazine Wants You To Do Good!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Good Magazine as its tagline says is for "people who give a damn" and describes itself as a publishing platform to "change the world." " So, it comes as no surprise that every holiday season the magazine chooses nonprofit partners and runs a fundraising/subscription campaign. Here's how it works.

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GOOD Magazine

Have Fun - Do Good

I read my new issue of Ode , With All Our Strength by Anne Brodsky, and a new magazine, GOOD. I'd been looking forward to GOOD for a while after Green LA Girl wrote about it, and after talking to Christine Soto at the GOOD Magazine booth at the Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp. Photo from GOOD Magazine Flickr Stream.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is the type of news sound byte you will typically see in Alumni magazines or that alums (or their parents) might share with your organizations. You want to celebrate their personal , social, or professional accomplishments. Here’s a great example from Teach for America sharing a funny visual about goofy year-book photos.

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Writing to Change the World

Have Fun - Do Good

This year's speaker was journalist, Samantha Power , who received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. She also won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Reporting for her article, " Dying in Darfur ," in The New Yorker. You can subscribe to her blog here.

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Secret Agent L: Covering the Globe with Random Acts of Kindess

Have Fun - Do Good

The stock Miss America answer is that I really do wish for world peace, and it's really true. I think that the earlier we can teach people about kindness, the better opportunities we have for positive results. Are there any books or blogs or magazines or quotes or anything like that that you go to for inspiration?

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Betting on Braincake: Interview with Jen Stancil

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When you’re reading Seventeen Magazine, you’re really about 13 years old. So to get the design and language geared to them is very difficult because most of the stuff for them is ads and magazines. Museums aren’t competing with other museums; they’re competing with corporate America. We’d vet designs past kids.

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Bryant Terry: Eco-chef, Food Justice Activist, Author of Vegan Soul Kitchen

Have Fun - Do Good

In America, I think oftentimes one of the first things that gets cut are people's food budgets. Whenever I contribute to websites or magazines, I insist that the editors allow me to include a recipe. At the end of 2008, I initiated a new project called the Grow. Grub Project. That's why I write cookbooks.