Please Cast Your Vote For The Best Resources In 2013
Your opinion counts. Please click here to vote for all your favorite resources for Make It Better’s annual “Best Of 2013″ contest.
The winners will be featured in our August magazine issue.
Walk the Red Carpet with Make It Better at our Philanthropy Awards Celebration.
Think – the Oscars of Giving Back. Sponsored by JPMorgan and Walgreens.
May 29, 5:30 pm, Chase Auditorium.
It’s free if you RSVP here before May 14 too.
Register today for the Make It Better Philanthropy Awards, May 29, 2013.
May is our dining issue, and it’s great! It includes insights, tips and recommendations sure to enhance your dining pleasure for months to come.
My favorite article though reminds me that great success — in food as in life — usually develops from great values and passion for the work.
Rick Bayless
Rick Bayless’ creative energy and desire to support and grow local and sustainable are spot on to further our world and his food empire.
Gale Gand
Gale’s heart is even sweeter than her signature pastries. She supports food pantries, helps at her son’s school, and takes him foraging for delicacies in nature even as she runs some of the most sophisticated kitchens in the city.
Martha Melman
What is not to love about Martha! She tries to strengthen every family she touches – including the hundreds of thousands supported by Metropolitan Family Services. And her favorite restaurant is still the one where she met her husband – the first of the LEY empire.
Billy Corrigan
From rock star to tea house owner. How cool is Billy?
Learn more here.
Make It Better moved today to a vibrant, beautiful, light filled office, created by Maze Homes/Bardes Interiors and Hester Decorating.
Coming soon – an entrepreneurial community work space – The Tech Mamma Lounge!
With CoFounder Mindy Fauntleroy in our gorgeous new office.
Address:
856 Lincoln Avenue
Second Floor
Winnetka
Please join me for our Philanthropy Awards Celebration at Chase Tower Auditorium on Wednesday, May 29.
Red carpet, champagne celebration in a beautiful space, sponsored by JPMorgan and Walgreens. This is going to be a great party!
Please come.
The Editor in Chief works closely with the Publisher, Editorial Director, Art Director, Senior Editor and Web Editor to deliver an outstanding monthly print magazine, interactive iPad magazine and website.
• Plan year-long magazine content including cover themes, feature articles and plan for reverse-published content. Collaborators: Publisher and Editorial Director
• Monthly responsibility for bookmap development and editorial deadlines. Collaborators: Publisher and Sales Director
• Plan year-long web content for the following sections of the website: Family, Better You, At Home, Entertainment, and Dining. Collaborators: Senior Editor and Web Editor
• Plan for community-contributed content
• Use Basecamp to write and organize weekly Better Letters
• Design and edit content guides of interest to affluent readers
• Goals include: Grow email subscriber list, improve open rate, improve click-through rate, 25% growth in web traffic
• Write articles as needed for website and magazine
• Maintain network of freelance writers who will pitch ideas and assign articles based on content needs
• Work with MIB Foundation to procure articles for Make a Difference section
• Edit all incoming articles for web and magazine
• Maintain network of local and national PR contacts
• Oversee all incoming printfomercials. Collaborators: Sales Team, Sales Director
• Maintain editorial budget
• Process all incoming invoices for writers and photographers
• Mentor and train Senior Editor and Web Editor
• Represent Make It Better at community, business and industry events
• Maintain a professional-personal social media presence
• Maintain a professional-personal blog presence
• Advanced understanding and use of content management systems for print and web, with a strong preference for Joomla administrators
• Advanced SEO skills for optimizing articles to search streams and identifying content opportunities based on competition scores
• Advanced understanding and use of Google Analytics
• Advanced understanding and use of email newsletter campaign systems, with a strong preference for Campaign Monitor and MailChimp
• Advanced understanding and use of digital edition publishing methods, features and opportunities
• Advanced understanding and use of iPad apps and publications
• Intermediate understanding and use of Adobe InDesign for compositions and editing of magazine, iPad, and digital edition content
• Intermediate understanding and use of web-based team collaboration tools, with a strong preference for the 37signals suite
• Intermediate understanding and use of the following office software package – Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) – Google Docs – Adobe Acrobat Pro (forms, proofing, digital signatures, reviews)
• Advanced understanding and use of social media automation and analytics tools including: TweetDeck or Hoot Suite, URL shorteners, Facebook advertising, Facebook analytics
• Advanced editing skills for web and magazine; familiarity with AP style
• 5+ years experience in magazine publishing including web, digital and mobile platforms
• Excellent editing, writing and proofing skills for print, online and new media
• Ability to quickly shift tasks and priorities within a deadline-driven environment
• Experience creating family-focused content for affluent women aged 30-60
• Background in journalism or other related area of study
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office, 37Signals Suite (or comparable collaboration software), Dropbox, Google Docs
This is a full-time position. Health insurance is available.
This position is on-site at our offices in Winnetka, IL and requires an in-office presence most days.
Immediate
Send the following to apply@makeitbetter.net
• resume
• cover letter
• salary requirements
• link to online portfolio or work samples in one PDF under 20MB
Part of the mission of Make It Better Media is to be the most trusted, easiest to use community resource and magazine for our audience of educated, affluent women. Turns out, this is an even more powerful mission than we originally anticipated because women are connectors and powerful change agents.
Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen explain this well in “The She Spot.” Understand well women’s concerns, needs and aspirations and their ability to care, connect and create community and you can change the world. They are just naturally inclined to Make It Better for others as well as for themselves.
Learn more about The She Spot here.
Participate in Make It Better Media here.
Thank you!
More and more, significant life events by the blessed with excess set — such as landmark birthday and anniversary parties, bar and bat mitzvahs and later-in-life marriages — are celebrated with requests to donate to charities or participate in local service projects in lieu of gifts.
If you too are plenty blessed and want ideas for where to give when next the opportunity arises, you will find outstanding nonprofits in the Better List.
Please vote for your favorite cover for our March magazine – the “Ideas” issue.
Please cast your vote on Facebook here.
In the early stages of Make It Better, a founding principle was that we would help nonprofit organizations project their message to the community.
Over the past four years, we’ve shared the stories of hundreds of organizations and individuals who are making a difference locally and around the globe. And we realized that the best of these organizations—the ones who squeeze every drop of goodness out of each dollar; groups who understand that to change the world, you need to start by changing a life; and the innovators who aren’t afraid to tap into technology to change old practices—deserve to be recognized and rewarded.
Our congratulations to these amazing organizations, and the men and women who work every day to make their missions come to life. We commend you and what you are doing to strengthen families, children and our communities.
Below are the videos awarded to each winning organization in the 2012 Make It Better Philanthropy Awards. We hope that they can use these as valuable marketing tools in spreading their good work.
