Benevolent Media is an all-volunteer startup dedicated to celebrating storytelling and design for good.
We do this in three ways:
- Solutions-based editorial content on our website;
- Monthly community events, hosted in partnership with cause-oriented groups; and,
- An annual festival, convening mediamakers and changemakers to share best practices, case studies and special projects.
We focus on people, organizations and projects that compel audiences to care about a cause, take action on an issue, or promote a point of view through strategic and inspiring multimedia.
“Storytelling” means anything to do with journalism, blogging, filmmaking or other narratives, based on fact and truth.
“Design” means anything to do with graphics, interactive data, information visualization, branding and marketing, or other human-centered problem-solving and innovation.
“Good” means anything to do with positive and lasting social or environmental change.
And of course, for the public good, storytelling and design must exist through community engagement—both online and offline—in order to be inspiring, effective and sustainable. This can be achieved through social networking, events, partnerships, information-sharing and other types of relationship-building between content creators, consumers and curators.
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