A friend sent me a link to this new magazine called GOOD. It includes features such as “The Color of War: An embedded artist chronicles Iraq” and “Search And Destroy: Ramming and sinking whale boats wherever they can be found.” To be sure, neither of those topics is Martha Stewart’s kind of “good thing” – but it sure sounds interesting! Heck, they even have a section called “Provocations”.
The best part is that if you subscribe to GOOD, your entire $20 fee will go to the charity of your choice (they have twelve to choose from, including DonorsChoose, Teach for America, UNICEF and WWF.) They say they’re doing it in order to self-select subscribers that fit their readership model, and I think it’s going to work! Their goal is to get 50,000 subscribers and so far they have just over 10,000.
So if you were going to do some end-of-the-year donations anyway, you might want to channel some of your money through GOOD and get something good for yourself, too.