We are aligning the planets for our (EARTH) Day magazine recycling juggernaut – sharing magazines with new readers. (MERCURY) – get the word out to friends (VENUS) – share yourContinueContinue reading “Aligning the planets for Magazine Literacy on (EARTH) Day”
Category Archives: Volunteers
Crowdsourcing magazine literacy
We are exploring ways to crowdsource components of our literacy work to broaden and deepen our community impact. We are building a simple, global, assembly line process for the collection,ContinueContinue reading “Crowdsourcing magazine literacy”
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”ContinueContinue reading “Rowan University "Spring Cleaning" recycles magazines to new readers for Earth Week”
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 andContinueContinue reading “Continuous improvement toward a sustainable magazine literacy supply chain”
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 missionContinueContinue reading “If you love Whole Foods, Magazines, and Literacy – we need you”
Coffee lovers give the gift of summer magazine reading to neighbors
I stopped in for a cup of coffee at Starbucks today and already found wonderful magazine donations piling up in our wooden KinderHarvest bin, including Bicycle and Entertainment Weekly. KeepContinueContinue reading “Coffee lovers give the gift of summer magazine reading to neighbors”
Walking the talk in a cobbler's shoes
I was caught off-guard a bit recently when someone asked about what magazines I like to read. Of course I have many favorites and always have. It’s fun to findContinueContinue reading “Walking the talk in a cobbler's shoes”
Kindergarten KinderHarvest Coast to Coast
We now have two kindergarten teachers, Ron in San Francisco and Katie in Boston, organizing KinderHarvest efforts with or for their students, giving us coast to coast activity and representingContinueContinue reading “Kindergarten KinderHarvest Coast to Coast”
Dream things that never were and say why not
I was recently asked if the Magazine Publishers Family Literacy Project was a person, who would it be? I choose Robert Kennedy whose inspiration is a driving force for generationsContinueContinue reading “Dream things that never were and say why not”
Podcasts, Flickr, and MySpace, oh my! Web 2.0 turns the table – delivering magazines to children and families hungry to read and succeed
With words worth a thousand pictures, we’ve hit on a powerful means to connect our literacy champions to the vast web of need and possibilities in every community across theContinueContinue reading “Podcasts, Flickr, and MySpace, oh my! Web 2.0 turns the table – delivering magazines to children and families hungry to read and succeed”
The Three R's of Literacy – Read, Recycle, & Reuse
Near Earth Day, 2006, MagazineLiteracy.org launched KinderHarvest, an effort that combines the three R’s of education – reading, writing, and arithmetic – with the three R’s of recycling – reduce,ContinueContinue reading “The Three R's of Literacy – Read, Recycle, & Reuse”
The mightiest shade trees and biggest smiles come from "small" seeds of kindness
I was recently having coffee with a wonderful woman who reached out to invest her time to help grow MagazineLiteracy.org. Every year, she organizes a music recital with the proceedsContinueContinue reading “The mightiest shade trees and biggest smiles come from "small" seeds of kindness”