- What is Good Deed Foundation?
- How can people help with Good Deed projects?
- What are the benefits of partnership for an organization?
- What is required of a partner organization?
- What are the benefits of participation for an individual?
- What is required of a participating individual?
- Facts about cell phone recycling
- Facts about buying products with the Good Deed logo
- What is UCare.tv?
- Facts about poverty and climate change
- Facts about the consumer power of women
- Does Good Deed have a religious affiliation?
- Good Deed Foundation Legal Definition
What is Good Deed Foundation?:
Good Deed Foundation gives people simple, powerful ways to address poverty and climate change through our creative partnership with non-profit organizations and progressive businesses.
- Good Deed provides creative ideas for social change and the tools to carry them out.
- Non-profit organizations provide outreach to the groups and individuals who will take action.
- Businesses co-brand products and services that become vehicles for change.
- Individuals perform simple acts to make a powerful difference: choose products and services with the Good Deed logo, recycle their cell phones, purchase light bulbs, and more.
- 90% of the funds generated by these simple acts are donated to programs that are working to dismantle poverty or to organizations seeking solutions to climate change.
How can I help with Good Deed projects?:
- Begin today - Recycle your old cell phone – Visit www.GoodDeedFoundation.org/recycle to obtain a postage-paid envelope for mailing cell phones to a recycling service, which will pay Good Deed a fee for every phone received. Good Deed donates 90% of these funds to groups working on poverty and climate change.
- Buy products with the Good Deed logo – Purchase select supermarket products, such as Cabot Creamery cheddar cheeses and butters, carrying the Good Deed logo will generate funds for women in poverty and for climate change and other groups and encourage businesses to be more socially responsible.
- Watch videos on www.UCare.tv, the first socially responsible news and entertainment network featuring causes you care about. Each time you visit UCare.tv, you generate additional funds for your favorite charities.
What are the benefits of partnership for an organization?:
- Partner organizations get simple but powerful tools to work toward their goals.
- Increase funding opportunities
- Create corporate partnerships
- Participate in Good Deed events to raise public and media awareness about your organization
- Good Deed Foundation keeps only 10% of its income for operating expenses. Of the remaining 90%, two-thirds is distributed to Women’s Funding Network and its member groups, and one third to programs working to solve climate change.
What is required of a partner organization?
- No financial outlay
- Reach out to your members to engage their participation in simple acts that make a powerful difference.
- Visit the Good Deed website, www.GoodDeedFoundation.org to access tools to help with outreach: eCards to email to members, newsletter articles, a link for your website, Good Deed widgets, and more
What are the benefits of participation for an individual?
- By performing a few simple acts, we diminish the sense of helplessness many of us feel in the face of the world’s problems. Do a simple act to help create a world of good.
- Good deeds are good for you! According to the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, “Altruistic . . . emotions and behaviors are associated with greater well-being, health, and longevity.”
What is required of a participating individual?
Perform one or more of the simple acts offered by Good Deed:
- Recycle your cell phones
- Add your name to the list of Good Deed supporters to encourage more businesses to add the Good Deed logo to their products and services to raise additional funds for non-profits.
- Help spread the word to friends and family. (See our Take Action page for eCards and other tools that can be emailed to your contacts.)
- Beginning in Spring 2008:
- Shop for products carrying the Good Deed logo
- Visit www.UCare.tv
- Americans upgrade their cell phones an average of once a year, rendering approximately 11.6 million phones useless each month
- Good Deed receives a fee for every cell phone recycled, generating funds to help dismantle poverty and resolve climate change.
- About 60 percent of cell phones recycled are in good working order and can be refurbished and resold. These cell phones generate the greatest amount of revenue to help lift women and families out of poverty and provide solutions to climate change.
- A portion of the phones recycled are programmed to dial only 911 and donated to domestic violence survivors, elders and low-income people at risk, for use in emergencies.
- As for the rest, they are recycled according to EPA standards and returned to the materials stream.
- Recycling is so easy: just visit www.GoodDeedFoundation.org/recycle to receive a postage-paid envelope and mail in your cell phone!
- Consumers can buy supermarket products bearing the green “joining-hands” Good Deed logo
- Manufacturers and retailers with a track record of social and environmental responsibility are licensed to use the Good Deed logo on their packages.
- These companies pay fees to Good Deed for use of the Good Deed logo, which are passed on to Women’s Funding Network to benefit women and families in poverty, as well as to programs providing solutions to climate change.
- Look for the Good Deed logo on a wide range of products in designated supermarkets, to be announced soon. Visit www.GoodDeedFoundation.org/products for updates.
- Non-profit profiles and videos addressing the causes you care about most
- Socially responsible news and links to the organizations working to address the issues
- Profiles of “Good Deed Reporters” and their video stories about social change in our communities and around the world
- Socially responsible advertising
- Fundraising opportunities
- Opportunities to increase your:
- National public and media visibility
- Client base
- Volunteer base
- An online social hub to cross-pollinate ideas between organizations
- Networking between organizations
- Global warming could more than double the number of people affected by poverty over the next 20 years. (United Nations Security Council)
- Women represent 70% of the 1.1 billion people worldwide who live in extreme poverty (Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; UNIFEM)
- Children represent a disproportionate share of the poor in the United States; they are 25 percent of the total population, but 35 percent of the poor population. (Census Bureau, 2004)
- Control $7 trillion in consumer and business spending
- Lead decision-makers in 76% of consumer purchases
- Give a greater share of earnings to philanthropy
- Want to give back to the community
- Engage with issues where they feel an emotional tie and connection
- Volunteer as much as men do
- Give to progressive causes: choice, environment, healthcare
- Prioritize investment in women: women give twice as much as men do to female candidates
Facts about cell phone recycling
Facts about buying products with the Good Deed logo
UCare.tv is a new socially responsible new and entertainment internet TV channel that offers:
Benefits for non-profit groups include:
Facts about poverty and climate change
Facts about the consumer power of women
Sources: Women’s Philanthropy Institute, Lake Research Partners, Staton Hughes, Center for Responsive Politics, and Fenton Communications
Does Good Deed have a religious affiliation?
No. Among the many organizations and other entities that support Good Deed Foundation are a wide range of religious and secular groups. (Please see our Supporters page for further details.) These groups do all share an appreciation for Good Deed’s goals of working toward sustainable solutions to poverty and climate change. And they agree with Good Deed that individuals have the power to make a difference, through the choices they make in their daily lives: “A simple act. A world of good.”
Good Deed Foundation Legal Definition
Good Deed Foundation is a not-for-profit LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. A for-profit COMPANY distributes its profits to its OWNERS. GOOD DEED HAS ONE OR MORE "MEMBERS" THAT ACT AS NOMINAL OWNERS FOR LEGAL AND GOVERNANCE PURPOSES. HOWEVER, GOOD DEED IS PROHIBITED FROM DISTRIBUTING ANY PROFITS TO ITS MEMBERS. INSTEAD, ALL PROFITS (AFTER MAKING LICENSING PAYMENTS TO THE WOMEN'S FUNDING NETWORK AND PAYING OVERHEAD AND OTHER EXPENSES) ARE REQUIRED TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO CHARITIES APPROVED BY ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS. In addition, GOOD DEED IS REQUIRED TO CONDUCT A REGULAR EVALUATION OF ITS GOVERNANCE PRACTICES TO ENSURE THAT ITS PRACTICES ARE CONSISTENT WITH BEST GOVERNANCE PRACTICES OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.
GOOD DEED IS UNABLE TO QUALIFY FOR TAX-EXEMPT STATUS UNDER SECTION 501(C)(3) OF THE UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE CODE BECAUSE ITS ACTIVITIES ARE BUSINESS ACTIVITIES (I.E., LICENSING THE GDF AND WFN MARKS), ALTHOUGH AS NOTED ABOVE ALL PROFITS FROM THESE BUSINESS ACTIVITIES MUST BE DONATED TO CHARITY. IN OTHER WORDS, GOOD DEED EARNS ITS REVENUES THROUGH BUSINESS ACTIVITIES RATHER THAN THROUGH PUBLIC OR PRIVATE DONATIONS, BUT 100% OF THE PROFITS FROM THESE ACTIVITIES ARE APPLIED TO CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES.
