Last year alone, the Goodwill Career Solutions Center in Union City assisted 1,888 people with employment opportunities and training, including 720 Obion County residents or about 5.6 percent of the county’s total workforce. Of those served, 676 people landed a job....
Over the decades they had gathered around it to eat thousands of meals, blow out hundreds of birthday candles, hold dozens of memorable family discussions and share countless laughs. But on this March day Bob DeLacey, his sister Mary Tamburin and his wife Debbie sat...
He was standing in the courtyard of the Nashville Rescue Mission, where he had been staying for six months since getting out of prison. He had initially told himself he would only be in the homeless shelter for a week. Instead, he had returned to...
The sponsor of new Tennessee regulations on donation collection bins says she believes the rules will go a long way to protect legitimate charitable organizations, such as Goodwill, and citizens who donate to them. ...
The path that brought Amgad to Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee began in Egypt, but in many ways it was similar to those taken by thousands of other people who get help from Goodwill each year....
(Middle Tenn.) — Two days after James got out of jail, his former neighbor met him at a Nashville probation office with all of his possessions stuffed into her car. James took four suitcases, which was all he could carry. “I don’t know what became...
By 8:15 a.m., when the doors officially opened on the first full-service Goodwill in Nashville’s Bellevue community, Betty Sowell had been waiting outside for five hours. The 72-year-old was sitting on her walker at the head of a line that included hundreds of people and...
On June 10, Kristian Bush met with Goodwill donors, signed autographs and posed for photos outside the Riverside Goodwill in Madison. But first, he visited the organization’s downtown headquarters, where he performed several acoustic songs for a group of employees with disabilities and sat down...
The Grand Opening of the Bellevue community’s first Goodwill store and Career Solutions Center will be celebrated on Thursday, June 18, with a multiple-employer job fair, a ribbon-cutting and numerous door prizes. The facility, which also includes a covered, drive-through Donations Express Center, is located at...
Multi-platinum Streamsound recording artist Kristian Bush will meet and greet Goodwill donors during an event from 3-5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 10, at the Rivergate Goodwill store, 2101 Gallatin Road in Madison. Bush, a Knoxville-born singer/songwriter, is half of the platinum-selling duo Sugarland. He is partnering...
Job Readiness Classes Start June 1, Work Program Begins June 8 Stefanie Toups liked Goodwill’s Summer TRAC Job Readiness Program so much, she enrolled in other Goodwill programs also designed to prepare young people for the working world. The Nashville resident’s experiences led directly to a job...
Paul was selling residential windows in Detroit six years ago, but the recession clouded his ability to see a future for himself in that hard-hit city. So, he packed his van with his belongings and moved to Nashville. “When the housing market went south, so did...
Needmore Road Facility to Include Career Solutions Center, Drive-Through Donations Area A multiple-employer job fair, a ribbon-cutting and numerous door prizes are among Grand Opening celebrations planned for Clarksville’s newest Goodwill at 2001 Needmore Road on Friday, May 29. Events get under way at 8 a.m. with...
Twenty-six Teams Participate in Fishing Tournament on Old Hickory Lake The way Trey Burtchaell of Mt. Juliet and his father, Larry Burtchaell of Smyrna, saw it, Saturday was a fairly slow day of fishing on Old Hickory Lake. Having caught only 12 bass, the two men —...
When Grace came to Goodwill Career Solutions in 2011, she’d been unemployed for more than a decade. “It had been a struggle to try and live life and care for my children without a job,” she said. “I had a lot of depression.” She said it particularly...
