The Good Men Project

Last updated
The Good Men Project
FormationJune 16, 2009;15 years ago (2009-06-16) [1]
Founder Tom Matlack
TypeOnline platform
PurposeA conversation about the changing roles of men in the 21st century.
Website goodmenproject.com

The Good Men Project is an American weblog founded by Tom Matlack in 2009.

Contents

Background

The online platform was founded in 2009 by American entrepreneur Tom Matlack.

The Good Men Project launched as an online publishing site and social platform on June 1, 2010. It publishes stories surrounding manhood, relationships, sexuality, social justice, and ethics. Ms. magazine once described the site by stating that it "... will make you rethink the idea of a men’s magazine. Recommend it...to anyone who wants to read stories about people coming to terms with what enlightened masculinity might look like in the 21st century.”

On July 9, 2013 The Atlantic Wire boasted that The Good Men Project is an alternative to the dying breed of lad mags. [2]

Lisa Hickey is the CEO and publisher of The Good Men Project. Executive editors Wilhelm Cortez, Lisa M. Blacker, and Kara Post-Kennedy are among the site's other employees. [3] Christa McDermott was named the managing editor and partnership director. Michael Kasdan serves a tenure as the director of special projects.

The Good Men Project shares content with The Shriver Report, [4] XOJane [5] and Salon. [6]

Books and films

The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood is a collection of 31 essays written by a diverse group of contributors. It includes well-known writers, a former Sing Sing inmate, a father of five watching his wife die from cancer, a soldier returning from Iraq, and a slew of ordinary men willing to share their daily struggles to define themselves as men in the twenty-first century. Notable contributors include rock critic Steve Almond, former New England Patriot Linebacker and NFL Hall of Famer Andre Tippett, and Pulitzer Prize winner Charlie LeDuff. [7]

The film of the same title is directed and produced by Matt Gannon, maker of the feature documentary In the Crease and co-producer of the Oscar-nominated Girl with a Pearl Earring . The film presents the stories of ten men from varied backgrounds who share the moments in their lives that made them who they are. [8]

Nonprofit foundation

The Good Men Foundation was a registered New York State non-profit charitable corporation dedicated to helping organizations that provide educational, social, financial, and legal support to men and boys at risk.

Tom Matlack and his business partner, James Houghton, began The Good Men Foundation with two objectives, help at-risk boys by contributing money to proven non-profits, and to initiate a broad discussion on what it means to be a good man. [9]

Good Men Media, Inc.

The for-profit arm of the Good Men Project, Good Men Media, Inc., was founded in March 2010 by Lisa Hickey, an advertising veteran and social media consultant. Hickey is also the CEO. [10]

Good Men Media is responsible for publishing the online content site The Good Men Project and is also developing book, film and technological applications that all focus on men's issues. [11]

In November 2010, Good Men Media received a round of angel funding worth $500,000. The company plans to use the funding to expand distribution of men's related content and to support revenue growth. Investors in Good Men Media include project founder Tom Matlack and private angel investors Grant Gund, managing partner of Coppermine Capital; Jack Roberts, CEO and president of Consert Inc.; Mike Jackson, former partner at Lehman Brothers and founding partner of Ironwood and Housatonic Partners; and Michael Margolis, founder of the investment management firm Maric LS, LLC, and others. Ken Goldstein is a member of the board of directors. [12]

Related Research Articles

<i>Salon.com</i> American progressive news and opinion website

Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995. It publishes articles on U.S. politics, culture, and current events.

<i>Loaded</i> (magazine) British mens lifestyle magazine, 1994–2015

Loaded is a men's lifestyle magazine, now positioned as a men's lifestyle brand and community. It launched as a mass-market print publication in 1994, ceased being issued in March 2015, but relaunched as a digital magazine on 11 November 2015. The content was changed, with risqué material being heavily reduced. It relaunched in May 2024 as a digital lifestyle brand with quarterly print magazine, to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bolt (website)</span> Former social networking site

Bolt was a social networking and video website active from 1996 to 2007 before reopening in April 2008. It was shut down for a period of one year due to copyright violations leading to bankruptcy. It was acquired by new owners on January 4, 2008 and operated successfully for several months before announcing plans to go offline in October 2008.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">R. J. Williams</span> American actor

RJ Williams is an American media and Internet entrepreneur. He is the founder of the media company Young Hollywood. RJ Williams is currently a very active angel investor in the digital ecosystem with dozens of investments in high profile companies over the years and is a former child actor.

Boston.com is a regional website that offers news and information about the Boston, Massachusetts, region. It is owned and operated by Boston Globe Media Partners, publisher of The Boston Globe.

GOOD Worldwide Inc. is a United States-based company with offices in Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle that reports on businesses and non-profits. GOOD produces a website, a quarterly magazine, online videos, and events. Content covered includes environmental issues, education, urban planning, design, politics, culture, technology, and health. Good Worldwide Inc. is the consolidation of originally separate brands: Reason Pictures, GOOD magazine, and GOOD Digital, in partnership with Causes, a Facebook/MySpace app promoting donations of time and money to charities and non-profits; Goodrec and Govit, an application that connects US citizens with their elected representatives. GOOD Worldwide Inc. is made up of three organizations: GOOD/Media, GOOD/Community and GOOD/Corps.

Experience Project was a free social networking website consisting of various online communities. It operated from 2007 until 2016, when it announced it would suspend registrations and enter a read-only mode for an indefinite period.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Xtube</span> Pornographic video hosting and social networking site

Xtube was a Canadian pornographic video hosting service and social networking site based in Toronto, Ontario. It was established in 2006 and is notable for being the first adult community site to allow users to upload and share adult videos. Xtube was not a producer of pornography, instead it provided a platform for content uploaded by users. User-submitted content included pornographic videos, webcam models, pornographic photographs, and erotic literature, and incorporated social networking features.

Healthline Media, Inc. is an American website and provider of health information headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1999, relaunched in 2006, and established as a standalone entity in January 2016. Healthline has been ranked towards the middle of top-ranking health information websites. A study of top-ranking health websites published in 2021 evaluated its quality as "good", compared to MedlinePlus's "excellent" scores and Medical News Today's "fair/good" ranking.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bomis</span> Dot-com company (1996–2007)

Bomis, was a dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. It was co-founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Michael Davis. By 2007, the company was inactive, with its Wikipedia-related resources transferred to the Wikimedia Foundation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Indiegogo</span> American crowdfunding website

Indiegogo is an American crowdfunding website founded in 2008 by Danae Ringelmann, Slava Rubin, and Eric Schell. Its headquarters are in San Francisco, California. The site is one of the first sites to offer crowd funding. Indiegogo allows people to solicit funds for an idea, charity, or start-up business. Indiegogo charges a 5% fee on contributions. This charge is in addition to Stripe credit card processing charges of 3% + $0.30 per transaction. Fifteen million people visit the site each month.

Lisa Hickey is an American author and advertising consultant. She has been the CEO of Good Men Media, Inc. and the publisher of Good Men magazine since 2010.

Tom Matlack is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author.

The Conversation is a network of nonprofit media outlets publishing news stories and research reports online, with accompanying expert opinion and analysis. Articles are written by academics and researchers under a Creative Commons license, allowing reuse without modification. Copyright terms for images are generally listed in the image caption and attribution. Its model has been described as explanatory journalism. Except in "exceptional circumstances", it only publishes articles by "academics employed by, or otherwise formally connected to, accredited institutions, including universities and accredited research bodies".

<i>The Bay Citizen</i>

The Bay Citizen was a non-profit news organization covering the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded as the Bay Area News Project in January 2010 with money provided by Warren Hellman's Hellman Family Foundation. On May 26, 2010 the organization launched the website, baycitizen.org. In June 2010 The Bay Citizen began producing content for the newly added biweekly two-page Bay Area Report published in The New York Times.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">UNILAD</span> British internet media company

UNILAD is a British Internet media company and website owned by LADbible Group. The company markets itself as "a primary platform for youngsters for breaking news and relatable viral content", and has offices in London and Manchester. UNILAD was shut down in 2012, but it relaunched in 2014 under new owners Liam Harrington and Sam Bentley. The company has since developed into a media network that creates and licenses original content.

Treehouse or (Teamtreehouse) is an online technology school that offers beginner to advanced courses in web design, web development, mobile development and game development. Its courses are aimed at beginners looking to learn computer coding skills for a career in the tech industry.

Spanfeller Media Group (SMG), a subsidiary of publishing company Tribune Publishing, is a digital media company based in New York City. It was founded in 2010 by Jim Spanfeller, after leading the digital strategy at Forbes.com. Spanfeller Media Group operates two media sites as subject-specific digital destinations, The Daily Meal, dedicated to food and drink, and The Active Times, centered on outdoor sports and an active lifestyle.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">LADbible Group</span> British digital youth publisher

LADbible Group Limited, part of LBG Media plc, is a British digital publisher. Its headquarters is in Manchester and it has offices in London, Dublin, Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">GhanaWeb</span> Ghana-focused news and opinion website

GhanaWeb, founded as GhanaHomePage, is a Ghananian portal, content curation and syndication website covering news, politics, business, sports, entertainment, opinions and general information about Ghana. It was launched by GhanaWeb B.V., a privately-owned Dutch company in 1999. It also offers background information, classifieds, radio stations and a social network for Ghanaians and the Diaspora.

References

  1. ↑ "GoodMenProject.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS . Retrieved 2016-08-05.
  2. ↑ Nazaryan, Alexander. "Nobody Wants To Buy Maxim: How the Lad Mags Met Their End". The Atlantic Wire. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "About Us - The Good Men Project". The Good Men Project. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  4. ↑ "The Shriver Report – The Good Men Project". shriverreport.org. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ "The Good Men Project | xoJane". www.xojane.com. Archived from the original on 2013-04-06.
  6. ↑ "the_good_men_project | Salon.com". www.salon.com. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  7. ↑ Jackson, Carly Rose (December 1, 2009). "The Good Men Project". Blast. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
  8. ↑ "The Good Men Project: Film Trailer". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
  9. ↑ Weigel, Jen (December 2, 2010). "How to be a good man". Chicago Tribune .
  10. ↑ "Focusing on "good men" issues". NECN. March 19, 2010.
  11. ↑ van der Pool, Lisa (November 16, 2010). "Good Men Media nabs funding". Boston Business Journal.
  12. ↑ Morris, Cheryl (November 16, 2010). "Female CEO focuses on community of 'Good Men,' secures $500k". Boston Innovation. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.