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_Don’t Worry, Be Happy _Unf ck The World _Ten Words We Love _Mike & Mandy What is this beautiful wee publication I’m holding? The Generosity Journal showcases mighty fine people who are making a positive impact in this world. It’s a fresh dose of positive media brought to you by One Percent Collective, a Kiwi-based charity that helps you share 1% of your income with great causes on the regular. PUBLISHER: One Percent Collective EDITOR: Pat Shepherd SUB EDITOR: JDJd NodderNodder ART DIRECTION: Natasha Vermeulen – – www.fromthemill.co.nz fromthemill.co.nz COVER ILLUSTRATION: Cracked Ink – crackedink.com CONTRIBUTORS: BenHow Hurley, to DAD, Esther Peter McLaren,Campbell, Tobias Grant Kraus,Maiden, JanetteVictoria Searle,Birkinshaw, Laura Ash O’Connell Church, Rapira, Simeon Magdalena Patience, Pat Bisley, Shepherd, OliverEmmet Vetter, Riddle, Natasha Jo Cribb, Vermeulen, Sia Toomaga, Guy NatashaRyan, Sarah Vermeulen, Longbottom, Jeremy JamesHansen, Nokise, Hemana, Sarah Jd Nodder,Lang, Justin Telford Lester, Mills, Stephanie Dr Tony Fernando, McIntyre, ReubenCamden Harcourt, Howitt, Kate Richard Neill, Brimer, Melissa Lee-Anne Clark-Reynolds, Duncan, Sarah Dr Max Berry, BradleyLongbottom, Garner, Amane The Neonatal & Me, Fox&Co, Trust, YoshiTim Wightman, Travel Films, Leo Sarah Straight, With AshaMacdonald, Payton. Tobias Kraus, Libor Klimes, Billie Brook, Josh Naus. 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Sumo Offset 300gsm This publication has been brought to life thanks to the generosity and Sumo Offset 150gsm supplied by BJ Ball Papers. of our contributors and the kindness of our sponsors. PRINTER: format.co.nz Kaibosh have now rescued over 1 million kg of food. Wow! UpsideDowns have cleared their waiting list many times YOUR thanks to your 1%s. Amazing! $960,052.68* COLLECTIVE raised to date by over 500 Collective donors. Impacting thousands of lives in Aotearoa IMPACT and beyond! Every dollar goes to your chosen charities, yep 100% UpsideDowns $33,942.71 Bellyful $36,514.30 Helping kids with Down syndrome Providing meals for families with newborn find their voice. babies and families with young children who are struggling with illness. Sustainable Coastlines $105,582.63 Enabling people to look after the DCM Wellington $99,912.08 coastlines and waterways they love. DCM works with people in Wellington who are experiencing homelessness or are at risk The Garden to Table programme is The Neonatal Trust $71,422.46 of homelessness. now in over 150 schools, reaching nearly 10,000 students across NZ! Dedicated to making a difficult start to life that little bit easier. Inspiring Stories $64,806.68 Building a movement of young Ngā Rangatahi Toa $98,409.27 New Zealanders who can, and will change the world. Together, through creativity, we change lives. Take My Hands $35,430.20 SpinningTop $96,096.13 Improving lives by connecting those that have with those in need. Gives balance to vulnerable children living in poverty. Garden to Table $80,829.15 Kaibosh $116,831.21 Changing the way children approach and think about food. Zero Food Poverty, Zero Food Waste. Inspiring Stories brought together 1,300 young changemakers for their 2018 Sustainable Coastlines have now presented to Festival for the Future. Super inspiring! over 200,000 people and cleaned up almost * As at 31st August 2018. The large dollar differences are due to charities being partners for varying lengths of time. The total raised to date also includes 1.5 million litres of rubbish from our beaches! $120,275.86 worth of donations to our legacy charities, who were past funding recipient organisations. LAURIE JESSICA MANINS FOON editor's yarn One. Million. Dollars! Yep, as I write this, your 1% donations are collectively on the verge of hitting the million dollar raised milestone, an amazing Collective achievement! While we talk here about the dollar figures, the most important thing to remember is that each and every donation is impacting the lives of people and the environment in Aotearoa and beyond. That’s thousands of lives supported each and every year by your small, regular acts of generosity. I think that’s pretty darn awesome! So when Louis Sutherland and Naz Nazli sent us through the final words for our new ‘Mike & Mandy’ video, you can just imagine the grin when we read this: Sometimes giving almost nothing means almost everything. JUSTIN LESTER VERBERNE It beautifully captures what this whole JAN generosity movement is about, a small act JOSH that has minimal impact on our day-to-day BORTHWICK lives, yet has the hugest impact on those who need our support. To all of you who have been part of the Collective journey over the years, I can’t thank you enough for the support you have given, in so many ways. Believe me, meeting the charities and seeing the lives impacted makes this thing so incredibly worthwhile. To those of you ready to join us in giving a %, CAITLIN we can’t wait for your help in creating even MACKAY more impact. Thank you. PAT We’re asking a number of our generous donors why they give a %. Then we’re teaming them Editor/Chief Doer of Things up with our talented writers and the cream of the crop of NZ photographers who are kindly donating their skills to capture portraits of these wonderful humans! at One Percent Collective GABIE Go check them out at onepercentcollective.org/profile GEORGE MY PLAN TO SAVE THE WORLD: To start this piece-of-words thing I Just by meeting new people and listening, I started thought I’d come up with a clever title. to feel the paddock grass under my feet. What is the opposite of tunnel vision? Listening to people with different opinions to mine: from simple things like, what flavour pizza is the Bridge vision? Panoramic vision? best to people with very determined, strong Paddock vision!? Not as clever as I’d opinions on curbing racism, people fighting for hoped for, but has a bloody decent same-sex marriage, global warming solutions Kiwi ring to it so I’ll stick with that. and women's rights. I didn’t always agree with everything this melting PADDOCK VISION. We need more people with pot poured on me, but it opened my mind to new paddock vision. ways of thinking. My tunnel with its single one-way I grew up in a small rural town and, like a lot of lane was long gone. Go back 25 years to my small small New Zealand towns were back then, I had town and these ideas, these big thinkers would have quite conservative views, my family had quite been brushed aside, laughed at or rammed out of conservative views. The more liberal city folk the tunnel. would have said we had tunnel vision. That we I would say that travel opened my way of thinking, suffered from tunnel vision. but nowadays with the internet, every Kiwi can hear For the past ten years I've lived in the ‘big smoke’. ideas from all around the world. You don’t need to I’ve travelled a lot around this globe of ours, leave your living room to start thinking differently, encountered new…encounters? I’m also married appreciating others opinions and broadening your and have three kids (three daughters – please own awareness of the world. It’s 2018 and I’d love to send help). For a 30 year old I like to think I’ve think all of New Zealand is now more open to change. seen a lot, but did I see enough? Yes. I’d like to think we are all standing in a paddock, the boundaries of our comfort zones a distant rusty Back in 2007, Auckland rubbed off on me, thick and No. 8 wire fence. fast. The cliche ‘melting pot’ of people from all walks of life knocked me for six for a few months – but you Sadly, as many of you will witness now and again, are what you eat...no, that's not right, can we just say, there are still people throughout New Zealand stuck you are what you live? My tunnel was demolished in a tunnel. Too much smog in there, Bro. Get ya self pretty quickly, sometimes by other ideas smacking some Paddock Vision. me behind the ears, but mainly by me opening Paddock Vision, $59.99. Headset only, batteries my eyes to new things, smashing down slabs of not included. concrete myself. To see How to DAD’s hilarious collection of videos, it’s as simple as Googling ‘How to DAD’. Illustration by Peter Campbell Grab a Collective tee or singlet at GOOD STUFF onepercentcollective.org/tees Doing good things Honeywrap was inspired by nature and a passion for making Nisa is an underwear label that aims to TWICE is a podcast produced out of the “BLUE is a cinematic song for our oceans; Thankyou is a social enterprise that a difference by reducing the amount of plastic on the planet.