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🗞️ Good News: Millions donated and volunteered on Giving Tuesday

Friday, December 6, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with Today’s Top Good News Story Photo: Courtesy of Benevity With millions turning out to help, the number of Giving Tuesday volunteers increased by 4% in 2024 The results are in: This year, $3.6 billion total was donated on Giving Tuesday, an increase of 16% from last year, with 36.1 million people in total participating — either by giving money or donating goods. Just as notably, 9.2...
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🗞️ Good News: Researchers discovered 742 new wildlife species

Thursday, December 5, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with good neighbors... Today is International Volunteer Day! As Rosalynn Carter said, “Without volunteers, we’d be a nation without a soul.” Make a plan to volunteer in your community today! The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing and will soon make its ruling in a trans rights case, but we can be good allies to trans youth and the trans community no matter what the outcome. Today’s Top Good...
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🗞️ Good News: London fashion week goes exotic animal skin-free

Wednesday, December 4, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with cue the confetti! Forbes released its 30 under 30 list, and a Good Good Good contributor was included in the social impact category! An engineer, TV host, author, and communicator helping people feel welcome in the sciences became the 100th woman to visit space! Today’s Top Good News Story Photo: Philafrenzy (CC BY-SA 4.0) The first of the “big four” to do so, London Fashion Week...
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🗞️ Good News: A milestone for reproductive healthcare access

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with Giving Tuesday... it’s giving hope. Hope mobilizes people to do more good — we all like proof that we’re moving in the right direction. And we make a whole newspaper filled with proof every single month. In the Goodnewspaper, you’ll read about the world’s foremost nonprofits and leaders making a difference to move the needle for some of the world’s biggest problems — and ways you can...
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🗞️ Good News: More people are volunteering again

Monday, December 2, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with Cyber Monday: Gift good news and save! This Cyber Monday, we’re encouraging you to give a gift that helps the people you love spend more time offline. And we have a feeling everyone on your list could use a little less screen time for the holidays. The Goodnewspaper does that: It’s a real-life, print newspaper filled with stories of hope, progress, and ways people are making the world a...
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🗞️ Good news to read on Thanksgiving Day!

Thursday, November 28, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Thanksgiving — as it’s celebrated today — is a time of reflection, gratitude, and togetherness. It’s an opportunity to pause and appreciate both the big and small blessings in our lives. Of course, the story the U.S. has long told about the origin of Thanksgiving is a lie. But that doesn’t mean we can’t rethink and reclaim what this holiday means. In today’s Goodnewsletter, we’ll be celebrating...
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🗞️ Good News: Mississippi makes major childhood literacy progress

Wednesday, November 27, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with today in history... Today is the anniversary of Harvey Milk’s death. A champion of the rights of the LGBTQ+ community, minorities, immigrants, women, and children, he was assassinated on November 27, 1978. In 1978, Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and became the first openly gay elected official in the state of California at a time when homosexuality was...
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🗞️ The world’s first and largest offshore solar farm comes online

Tuesday, November 26, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with Today’s Top Good News Story Photo: China Energy The world’s first and largest offshore solar farm is now online in China Located off the coast of eastern China, the first solar units in the world’s largest offshore solar farm have now officially been connected to the grid. Once fully complete and online, the solar farm is expected to generate 1.78 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity...
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🗞️ Good News: For the first time, one cancer could be eliminated

Monday, November 25, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with We did it! Thank you! We are thrilled to announce that we met — and exceeded! — our Good News Pledge-a-Thon goal! We are so, so grateful. We’re also deeply proud to have a community that not only believes in this kind of news — but wants to back it financially so it can continue. Thank you for supporting journalism that’s focused on good news. Today’s Top Good News Story Photo: Getty...
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🗞️ Good News: Denmark’s big plans to plant 1 billion trees

Friday, November 22, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Only 36 supporters to go... 1,164 people have already pledged their support to save good news — we’re so close to reaching our goal, and tomorrow is the last day of Pledge-a-Thon! When you pledge your support, you’re ensuring we can stay in business — and bring good news to your inbox every day. ENDS TOMORROW — PLEDGE YOUR SUPPORT NOW! Today’s Top Good News Story Photo: Malene Thyssen (CC BY-SA 3.0)...

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