NIGHTLIGHT: May 10, 2012: goods for good, founded by Mover and Shaker Melissa Kushner, raises $435,000 in the 2012 Gala with nearly 400 in attendance! A Huge Success!
goods for good empowers communities to support orphans and other children in need. The seven-year-old organization has made tremendous strides in its short lifespan and this is a charity to watch.
Esteemed Boston College graduate Luke Russert did a fantastic job emceeing the event, and Melissa is a fantastic speaker as you see above.
Read her recent Brilliant Businesspeople interview:
We were glad to see her having a great time after all her hard work!
Congratulations Melissa on an amazing event!
CK Swett was the auctioneer of the evening.
A jungle scene was part of the event festivities by
Melissa and Peachy
Ryan Attar, Peachy Deegan and Luke Russert
There are two Deegans and two Boston College Eagles in that picture!
Guess which is which!
How we do it
We supply materials that meet the immediate needs of these children while partnering with local community centers to strengthen their skills and build businesses for sustained impact. This three-pronged approach addresses the urgent needs of the children while enabling communities to provide for them in the long run.
Our three-pronged approach includes:
Immediate relief
goods for good provides needed raw materials, such as pens and fabric, to locally run community centers at the heart of every malawian village. Over the past six years goods for good has developed a highly effective goods provision model that eliminates the major barriers to education for more than 65,000 orphans and other children in need.
Capacity building trainings
In addition to immediate relief, goods for good provides critical training to Malawian community center staff in areas such as financial management and business operations. These capacity building trainings empower our partner organizations to fulfill the needs of local children and to identify where their communities will benefit the most from further investment.
Community enterprise
Once the community center have received training, goods for good helps them launch community enterprises, the final step in empowering community centers to independently and sustainably support the children in their care. Through this investment and growth process, goods for good works hand-in-hand with the community to seed small local businesses that have the potenital to grow. These investments eventually allow the centers to rely on their own earned income and ensure self-sufficiency for the children and the community. Proposed community enterprises include growing and processing cash crops and chicken production.
Ecosystem of good
goods for good’s three-pronged approach of relief, skills training and business development creates an “ecosystem of good” that breaks the cycle of poverty for the people we serve.
