Good News Agency

The Association was established in 1979 and received State recognition as an educational charity in 1999. Since 2002 it has been associated with the UN Department of Public Information. It is recognized by UNESCO as “an actor of the global movement for a culture of peace” and is a member of the World Association of Non Governmental Organizations. The Association's activities have always concentrated on supporting and spreading the ideals of brotherhood, unity in diversity and responsibility for the common good; this through the instilling of new ethical and social values. Since its constitution in 1979, all the activities of the Association have been planned and conducted by the administrative body and by its members and supporters on a voluntary basis and have been offered to the public at no charge. The Association has always been financed exclusively by the voluntary contributions of its members and supporters. Since its constitution and until 2007, the Association has run in Italy the Triangles and World Goodwill service activities of the Lucis Trust – a registered educational charity associated with the United Nations, Department of Public Information – that serve the common good through quarterly newsletters highlighting the power of meditation and the energy of goodwill in world affairs. Since 1966, the Association has especially intensified its voluntary work in awakening public opinion and in the school education field. As from June 2000 a new editorial initiative was launched intent on contributing to improve public opinion: Good News Agency, a news bulletin that the Association emits in Italian, in English and in Portuguese and which carries news from the world of the UN, institutions, NGOs, service associations and volunteer groups. It is sent free through the Internet to more than 10 000 media and editorial journalists of the daily newspapers and periodical magazines and of the radio and television stations in 54 countries as well as 3 000 NGOs, universities and colleges. (Not to mention about 23 000 Rotarians in the world.) In 2001, Good News Agency launched the Ethical Code of the Media, that stresses publishers' responsibilities to give voice also to the positive events which indicate in the world the response of humanity to the greatest problems of our time.