Donating Magazines

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

GotBooks doesn't take them, the library doesn't take them... I'm running out of ideas and google-fu.

I've got a bunch of magazines along the lines of Smithsonian, Entertainment Weekly and so on, going back at least ten years, in good condition. I can recycle them, sure, but perhaps there's some organization out there that would have a use for them?

Any ideas?

Comments

[pooka-madness.livejournal.com]

Art schools? Or just schools in general? I know a freshman art student who needed a stack of magazines for a design assignment recently, and I feel like basically everyone has to make a collage at some point in their academic career.

[ron_newman]

Try this person: http://davis-square.livejournal.com/3010468.html

[madrigal.livejournal.com]

I'm good now. Thanks though!

[ron_newman]

Does this mean you don't want mine anymore?

[jesseh.livejournal.com]

Put a Free Stuff ad on craigslist, if there's no one here. When I did that (years ago and in NYC), the person who came said she was sending them to soldiers abroad.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

This. That's what I'm going to do when I'm done culling my old issues of Saveur.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

... Saveur? May I have some? I promise to make up the pile with old copies of Archaeology from the last few years.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Certainly! The culling is proving to be slow going...I keep getting sidetracked by re-reading the articles. :)

[twilighttremolo.livejournal.com]

I've had both Goodwill and Boomerangs (in Central, I prefer them because I have heard that Goodwill has some questionable labor practices) take my old magazines, although I think one or both of them has a stated policy against them. I admit I don't know whether they were then sold or junked.

[neuroacorn.livejournal.com]

freecycle.org might connect you with someone who can use them.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I have taken magazines with me to the doctor and to ERs before; also I work in a school so I give some to the art department.

[charolastra00.livejournal.com]

Hospitals! When I was going though chemo, I spent hours a week in waiting rooms or bored during procedures. My oncologist's office had a bunch of cancer-related publications and a few magazines that people donated - mostly Better Homes and Gardens in Portuguese and a few People magazines that I would fight the elderly old ladies for. :P

Older ones (particularly things like Entertainment Weekly) might be better for art projects at local public schools, but new within the last 6 months or so would be more than welcomed at local hospitals - especially hospitals that tend to serve lower income people.

[whowehavetofear.livejournal.com]

I agree with trying hospitals. There's never anything to read, whether in the ER or in a ward.

[siderea]

I worked at the United South End Settlements (USES.org) in one of their youth art programs. It's a great charitable non-profit, doing wonderful work. We were always starved for good magazines to do collage projects with (and art supplies of any kind). The program I was with is no longer there and my contacts all got laid off or transfered, but you can call (617) 375-8108 to ask if any of their art programs want an in-kind donation of old magazines.

[rivka simmons (from livejournal.com)]

Hi,
I'd be interested in some old magazines. I do art therapy and use them a lot for collaging. Do you still have them?
I'd love some like the Smithsonian or any with lots of interesting pictures. Please let me know.
thanks
Rivka
rivka@rivkasimmons.com