This is a fundraising effort of the Quietly Working Foundation to support our new school The Missing Pixel Project.

Quietly Working Foundation The Missing Pixel Project
Locals 4 Good

Community postcards that fund student training

Easy As 1, 2, 3

We Handle Everything Else!

Why Locals 4 Good Works

Premium postcards, exclusive categories, and a mission that matters

What's In It 4 You?

Exclusive category, student-designed art, and premium reach in every mailbox

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Category Exclusivity

Only ONE donor-partner per category per area. When you reserve "Plumber," no other plumber appears on that postcard.

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White Glove Service

Our Missing Pixel students design your ad at no extra cost, under award-winning professional oversight and reviewed before it prints. You just approve the proof... we handle everything else.

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Premium Exposure

Beautiful 9"×12" postcards on heavy cardstock. Not a flimsy flyer... a piece your neighbors will keep on the counter.

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Targeted Messaging

Census-verified demographics for every area. You know exactly who's receiving your postcard and their household profile.

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Highest Quality

Professional print production. 300 DPI, full bleed, premium paper. Your brand looks as good as it deserves.

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10,000+ Mailboxes

Every Door Direct Mail reaches every residential address. No mailing list needed... every home gets your postcard.

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Every postcard funds student training

Through The Missing Pixel Project, underserved youth learn graphic design, print production, and client relations while creating your postcards.

How It Works

Three simple steps to reach 10,000+ homes in your community

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Pick Your Area

Browse affluent communities with Census-verified demographics. See median income, home values, and homeownership rates.

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Choose Your Size

Select from multiple ad sizes. Each slot is category-exclusive... only one donor-partner per category per postcard.

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We Handle the Rest

Our Missing Pixel students design your ad under award-winning professional oversight... reviewed before it prints. You approve the proof. We print and mail 10,000+ postcards to every home.

Affordable 4 Local Businesses

Choose the size that fits your brand. All donations support our nonprofit mission.

2.85" x 1.167"

Extra Small

$250

per month • $225 with 3+ months or $200 with 12+ months

Reserve This Size

2.85" x 1.813"

Small

$500

per month • $450 with 3+ months or $400 with 12+ months

Reserve This Size
Most Popular

2.85" x 3.75"

Medium

$700

per month • $630 with 3+ months or $560 with 12+ months

Reserve This Size

5.817" x 3.75"

Large

$1300

per month • $1170 with 3+ months or $1040 with 12+ months

Reserve This Size

11.75" x 3.75"

Extra Large

$2500

per month • $2250 with 3+ months or $2000 with 12+ months

Reserve This Size

11.75" x 7.5"

Massive

$4900

per month • $4410 with 3+ months or $3920 with 12+ months

Reserve This Size

Volume Discounts

3+ months: save 10% • 12+ months: save 20%. Consistent community presence builds trust.

About Us

The mission, the people, and what your donation builds

OUR MISSION

More Than a Postcard. It's a Mission.

Locals 4 Good is a fundraising program of The Quietly Working Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Every donation powers three things:

  1. Connect... Your postcards reach 10,000+ households in affluent neighborhoods
  2. Train... Missing Pixel students learn real-world design skills by creating your ads
  3. Fund... Every dollar supports youth career training and our nonprofit mission

Think of it as a "PTA bake sale" scaled to sustainability... the product is excellent, and the purpose is eternal.

Learn About QWF

The Missing Pixel Project

Our new tech arts school gives underserved youth (30 and younger) professional creative training through real client work.

When you donate, your postcard ad becomes a training project. Students learn by doing... not by watching tutorials.

Every print layout and business development concept represents real career development for a young designer or entrepreneur.

And every piece is reviewed and approved by an award-winning professional before it prints... nothing carries your name otherwise.

Graphic Design & Layout
Print & Pre-Press
Web & Code
UI/UX & Accessibility
Business Development
Storytelling
Motion & Video
Frontier Operations

The People Behind the Postcards

30+ years of community impact

Since 1996

Tested. Proven. Now Yours.

What started as a community newsletter has evolved into a premium postcard program reaching thousands of affluent households.

"The best community postcards feel like they belong in your mailbox."
501(c)(3) Nonprofit

The Quietly Working Foundation

Locals 4 Good is a fundraising program of QWF, a nonprofit dedicated to serving youth 30 and younger through career training and mentorship.

Visit quietlyworking.org

Printing4SuperCheap

Our print & distribution partner delivers premium quality at unbeatable prices and what they do for us makes this fundraising program possible. They are the epitome of professional production with a massive heart. They don't call Jake "Bob Ross" for noth'n...

Read Their Story

Inside the Missing Pixel Project

What your donation actually builds

The whole craft, not a corner of it

Your ad is a real training ground. Our younglings learn the full discipline... design and layout, print pre-press, web and code, the business side (proposals, brand and positioning, growth planning, built the modern way with AI agents and the apps they create themselves), and the storytelling that makes a brand land.

Mentored and approved by award-winning pros

Nothing carries your name without an award-winning professional's sign-off. Every piece is mentored and reviewed before it ever prints... a guarantee, not a hope, because nothing leaves our hands without approval from our founder, an award-winning designer, writer, and developer with three decades of professional craft now in service of the mission.

The most future-proof skill there is

Woven through all of it is Frontier Operations... learning to work at the moving line between human judgment and AI. Your donation funds young people learning to lead in the world that's actually arriving, not the one that's leaving.

Built to reach everyone

Accessibility isn't a checkbox here. Many of the young people we serve are neurodivergent, and many have come through hard places most never see. That lived experience makes them uniquely fluent in designing for real human minds... so the work that carries your name reaches everyone.

Your donation doesn't just fill 10,000 mailboxes. It builds a young person a future... mentored, multi-skilled, and signed off by professionals who've won at this craft.

Questions & Answers

Frequently Asked

Here are our most asked questions. If you have one that's not here, please let us know and we'll add it.

Should Have Asked

In our 30+ years of serving folks, we've learned that there are questions that should be asked that rarely are... here they are. :)

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Ready to Reach Your Community?

We're nerds so I have to say it... "There can be only one!" You get it... if you're not the one for your area, one of your competitors will be.

Locals 4 Good

Connecting local donor-partners with their neighbors through community postcards... because the best community postcards feel like they belong in your mailbox.

Every part of Locals 4 Good is made with by The Quietly Working Foundation.

Get in Touch

(773) 234-KIDS (5437) [email protected]

We typically respond within 24 hours.

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Locals 4 Good is a 501(c)(3) fundraising program.