recent press

How TOMS and Buy-One-Give-One Really Help

By popularizing the buy-one-give-one model, brands like TOMS (shoes and now eyeglasses) and Warby Parker (eyeglasses) have put themselves at the center of a debate within the foreign aid community. In fact, the broader topic of distributing goods in developing countries at all has become a juicy one, and for good reason: material support can do as much harm as it can good. But it doesn’t have to.

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Vogue Parties: Goods for Good’s Gala 4 Good

New Yorkers with more than simply a social agenda showed up at Industria Superstudio Thursday night to support Vogue’s Valerie Boster and her fellow co-hosts Andrea Tese, Coralie Charriol Paul, Behati Prinsloo, Natalia and Sebastian Echavarria, HRH Princess Tatiana of Greece, Eleonore Marchand, Antony Todd and Marissa Sackler at Gala4Good, a benefit put together by the fashion community to raise funds for Goods For Good, a program that sends surplus materials like unused fabric to vocational programs in Malawi.

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Andrea Tese: Documenting a Job-Training Program & Teaching Photography in Malawi

I began my trip in Malawi’s capital city, Lilongwe, on behalf of Goods for Good (G4G), which donates surplus materials from American companies to children in Africa. The actual distance to the village of Mchezi, my home during my stay, from the capital city was not vast in terms of miles, but in modern amenities they are worlds apart. 

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NextGen Africa: What’s Next for Africa’s 50 Million Orphans?

Of the 2.2 billion children that populate the world, 163 million of them are parentless. It’s a staggering number—and one that continues to grow with the persistence of disease, poverty and warfare within the world’s most vulnerable communities. Yet the orphan crisis rarely makes the front pages of mainstream press. 

Dr. Jane Aronson, also known as the “Orphan Doctor,” is one visionary who has devoted her life to changing that. 

Read the full article HERE 

Goods for Good: Turning Excess Into Success

After accepting an invitation to Malawi in 2003, recent college graduate Melissa Kushner didn’t want to arrive empty handed. So, like any well-mannered young woman, she collected two tons worth of suprlus consumer goods and brought them with her. 

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Finding Charity in Everyday Life: The Goods for Good Project

Melissa Kushner, a New Yorker who formerly worked for the United Nations, thought of a way to put her knowledge, connections, and skills to work to achieve a massive goal. 

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Caught Reading: Melissa Kushner, Founder of the Nonprofit Goods for Good

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. 

Read the full interview HERE 

Melissa Whitworth Blog: Goods for Good

Melissa Kushner, Founder of Goods for Good, and her team raised $51,000 for vulnerable children in Malawi and other developing countries at an event on Monday night. A portion of the proceeds also went to Haiti, in light of the recent earthquake. 

Read the full article HERE

Founder and Executive Director Melissa Kushner was invited to speak at TEDxAtlanta, a conference where some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers share their passion. Learn how she’s repurposing all she’s learned to create successful global partnerships.

Watch Melissa’s TEDx talk HERE

Movers and Shakers: Melissa Kushner, Founder and Executive Director of Goods for Good

What inspires you to excel in international development? The potential I see in the orphans and vulnerable children with whom I work, as well as the motivated community members who care for these children despite their own property. 

Read the full interview HERE 

18 Last Minute Gift Ideas: Goods for Good E-cards 

Goods for Good teamed up with five artists to create a series of holiday e-cards, which will help them to match excess goods from the U.S. (often heading to landfills) with the needs of vulnerable children in the developing world. 

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Goods 4 Good and OSPOP Bring New Holiday Cheer

Tis the season for giving, but a recent partnership between footwear label One Small Point of Pride and nonprofit organization Goods for Good is helping to make the seasonal cheer last year-round. The two companies’ collaboration marks a new kind of altruism and efficiency that should sweep the fashion industry - and hopefully others beyond. 

Read the full article HERE

Speaking Her Voice: Q & A - Melissa Kushner

What do you get when you put together one of our favorite nonprofit organizations and one of our favorites sources for intellectually stimulating and change-inspiring lectures? You get Goods for Good’s Founder and Executive Director, Melissa Kushner, giving a TedXAtlanta lecture! 

Read the full interview HERE

Gentlemen of Leisure: Goods 4 Good 4 The Holidays

Right in time for the holiday season, the Founder of Goods for Good, Melissa Kushner, has sought the talents of five New York and London based artists to design Goods 4 Good e-cards, with the proceeds providing much needed supplies to the neediest. 

Read the full article HERE

Founder and Executive Director Melissa Kushner was chosen by Gap to participate in their 40th anniversary Born to Fit campaign as someone who was Born to Do Good. 

Hear how she tells the story of Goods for Good HERE

Check out our Making a Difference segment on NBC Nightly News to see our work first hand and the impact that we’re making on the ground!

Watch our NBC segment HERE.