Post our banner ads on your web site and blog

A very talented and generous group of crowdSPRING creatives have designed and delivered a full portfolio of online advertising to promote MagazineLiteracy.org. Help us connect to supporters and literacy leadersContinue reading "Post our banner ads on your web site and blog"

MagHarvest – Organize a supermarket food and magazine drive

This article explains how to organize a combined food and magazine drive for your local food pantry to feed hungry bodies and minds. This is especially important as summer approaches, when the need for food and learning increases, because children are out of school, and pantry shelves go empty.

Rowan University "Spring Cleaning" recycles magazines to new readers for Earth Week

Help us to promote and grow this wonderful seed planted by Ad Dynamics - the student run ad agency at Rowan University in NJ... during an Earth Week "spring cleaning"Continue reading "Rowan University "Spring Cleaning" recycles magazines to new readers for Earth Week"

Hundreds of magazines recycled to new readers in Arizona shelter

Kudos to Arizona State University student Susie Satta who collected, sorted, and delivered hundreds of great magazines to new readers at a nearby shelter.  It's wonderful to share favorite magazinesContinue reading "Hundreds of magazines recycled to new readers in Arizona shelter"

Cornell team harvests three bins of magazines for new readers

Helene Beauchemin at Cornell University reports that their Magazine Harvest has yielded three bins of magazines for recycling to new readers in shelters and literacy programs. Next, the magazines willContinue reading "Cornell team harvests three bins of magazines for new readers"

Kudos to Katie Simmons – a Literacy Beacon in Boston

Katie Simmons has been a long-time MagazineLiteracy.org champion in the Boston area, collecting and delivering thousands of magazines to hundreds of children and families in shelters and literacy programs.  SheContinue reading "Kudos to Katie Simmons – a Literacy Beacon in Boston"

Continuous improvement toward a sustainable magazine literacy supply chain

The idea of recycling magazines to new readers is simple with few steps.   Sharing our magazines with others, especially  children and families who have little else in homeless andContinue reading "Continuous improvement toward a sustainable magazine literacy supply chain"

Bags of Mags – launch a Magazine Harvest in your office or school

It's the harvest season.  Your clean, gently read, recycled magazines can feed children and families hungry to read year-round - delivered to neighbors in homeless and domestic violence shelters andContinue reading "Bags of Mags – launch a Magazine Harvest in your office or school"

If you love Whole Foods, Magazines, and Literacy – we need you

Magazine Harvest gets clean, gently read magazines to children, moms, and teens in homeless and domestic violence shelters and via grocery bags from food pantries. We are on a missionContinue reading "If you love Whole Foods, Magazines, and Literacy – we need you"

crowdSPRING creatives deliver banner results

A very talented and generous group of crowdSPRING creatives have designed and delivered a full portfolio of online advertising to promote MagazineLiteracy.org. Display these wonderful ads will help us to fillContinue reading "crowdSPRING creatives deliver banner results"

Tell us your stories: Kibble and People mag feed a homeless kitten and neighbor

When I pulled into the grocery store parking lot today, I drove by a homeless women sitting on the curb - a too common sight.  She had some donated bagsContinue reading "Tell us your stories: Kibble and People mag feed a homeless kitten and neighbor"

Consumer mags feed mentoring and job training programs

MagazineLiteracy.org has expanded its impact beyond children's magazines by matching support from enthusiasts to meet literacy needs in like-mined mentoring and job training programs. For example, with the support ofContinue reading "Consumer mags feed mentoring and job training programs"

crowdSPRING has sprung for MagazineLiteracy.org ad campaign

Please join us in thanking the folks at crowdSPRING who have adopted MagazineLiteracy.org as their current Give Back client.  This enables us to tap tens of thousands of very talentedContinue reading "crowdSPRING has sprung for MagazineLiteracy.org ad campaign"

Mentoring can be the difference between child success and failure

Today, I attended a kick-off meeting for a local Homeless Education Literacy Program (HELP).  I learned many lessons at the meeting that reinforce our priority of meeting the literacy needsContinue reading "Mentoring can be the difference between child success and failure"

Magazines are comfort food for these shelter moms and kids

  I  look forward to every magazine delivery, and last Friday evening was no exception.  I walked into the lobby of a  Boston women's shelter carrying  recent issues of O,Continue reading "Magazines are comfort food for these shelter moms and kids"

Who, What, Where, When, Why magazines for literacy?

At MagazineLiteracy.org, we love to celebrate the amazing work being done at the literacy agencies that help us to get the magazines you love into the hands, hearts, and homesContinue reading "Who, What, Where, When, Why magazines for literacy?"

Interview with Katie Simmons – Boston Distribution Center

Sharing our success stories is an important way to help spread awareness about the MagazineLiteracy.org cause. Many individuals throughout the United States have rallied their communities to donate magazines andContinue reading "Interview with Katie Simmons – Boston Distribution Center"

The magazine lady is here

I deliver magazines to an inner city bakery training program. When I walk into the cafe with a large bundle of Gourmet, Cooking Light, Saveur, Food & Wine or EatingContinue reading "The magazine lady is here"

Elegant ways to recycle magazines to new readers

Is it possible that just reading the book In Pursuit of Elegance would fill our literacy tool chest with elegant solutions? Perhaps just having finished the Power of Intention audioContinue reading "Elegant ways to recycle magazines to new readers"

The Other America is still out there and needs our undivided attention

I am, for the first time in my life, in South Dakota, traveling by car from the East Coast to the West Coast. I borrowed a book on tape forContinue reading "The Other America is still out there and needs our undivided attention"

Getting back to reading basics to rebuild a prosperous society

We have all heard "give a person a fish and you feed them for a day... teach them to fish and you feed them for life." I say, "first youContinue reading "Getting back to reading basics to rebuild a prosperous society"

Leveraging technology is game changing for magazine literacy

We are just getting started in Second Life and the learning curve is definitely a challenge. We factor that in to our exploration of new technologies, but we also lookContinue reading "Leveraging technology is game changing for magazine literacy"

Tonight, Ranger Rick keeps a boy who loves frogs company in a domestic violence shelter

Boston volunteer Katie Simmons - in her words - why we do what we doAs we get ready to celebrate our 10th birthday - we want to tell the worldContinue reading "Tonight, Ranger Rick keeps a boy who loves frogs company in a domestic violence shelter"