John Mennell’s literacy project puts new magazines in the hands of children who love to read and distributes used magazines to homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters and food pantries.
Read Cornell Chronicle summary.
Full story – link magazine – Feeding the Hungry – Hungry to Read – Fall, 2007
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501(c)(3) Charity, School or Library, Adult Education, GED
Yuma, AZ
Serving a minimum of 150 students a month ranging in ages from 16 to 70 years old. Reading levels range from third grade to first-year college levels. However, the most common age of students is between 19 and 35.
Needs: Approximately 150 magazines per month
Magazines Requested: Magazines showing places, people, and animals around the world. Any magazines about hobbies or sports. Magazines that open students’ eyes to the world around them.
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Mentoring, Job Training, and Education
100 people age 50 and older and 50 people age 21-40
Ewing, NJ, USA
Needs: 180 Magazines
Magazines Requested: culinary skills magazines (30), home magazines (30), computer magazines (30), learning magazines (30), and entertainment magazines (50)
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School
45 preschool students, 45 adult readers with high school education, and 20 teens
Bridgeton, NJ, USA
Needs: 100 magazines
Magazines Requested: Any magazines geared towards parents, children, families, and education.
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The incredibly talented team at Bendyworks has opened their home, hearts, and arms to embrace and advance our global magazine literacy vision to the next level.
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Developing compelling, game-changing whiteboard animation to explain why magazines are especially powerful for literacy, and to illustrate how our online Magazine Literacy Marketplace works.
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A Greg Barber company with over 20 years experience in the eco friendly printing industry that helped to kickstart our industry-wide Subscribe to Literacy campaign.
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Balsamiq’s mockups tool allows rapid, intuitive prototyping to transform our online tools into a global magazine literacy marketplace.
Salesforce provides us with Customer Relationship Management software in the cloud that we use to keep track of volunteers and other mission critical contacts and stakeholders.
Design by Carlos Moreno
