Knight is excited about the merger of Good and Jumo, announced today. The combined organizations have the potential to complement one another in terms of content and online engagement. We believe that GOOD’s content will strengthen Jumo’s online engagement platform, and help bring together more people working toward social change.

In just a short time, Jumo has amassed a community of activists and 15,000 non-profits and NGOs – many in communities where Knight invests. The Jumo team brings a deep understanding of emerging technologies and online social engagement. In its fifth year of operation, GOOD brings together more than 3 million people each month through its socially-driven content and web platform.

This is also a collaboration of teams led by two visionaries in the social sector. Over the past five years, Ben Goldhirsh has grown GOOD from a quarterly magazine to a thriving content platform and agency business. Chris Hughes, a Facebook co-founder, founded Jumo in early 2010. Since then, the Jumo platform has helped over a million people find and connect with non-profits in their communities and around the world.

Knight Foundation initially funded Jumo through our Technology for Engagement initiative because we saw it as a unique way to use social media to help people take action.  Now, we look forward to seeing how Jumo and Good will work together to connect socially engaged people with a community of like-minded individuals, a network of mission-driven organizations, and most importantly, meaningful opportunities to get involved.