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...
Paula Cowden offered a brief phrase to sum up the recent Goodwill donation drive she participated in. “It was a win-win,” she said. The treasurer of the Hendersonville High School Soccer Foundation and mom of a soccer player ought to know. The group has done more than...
His ringtone may be “Bad to the Bone,” but Brian Davis is good to his word. The 37-year-old former Eagle Scout told employees at the Goodwill store on Indian Lake Blvd. in Hendersonville, Tenn., that he was going to reward them for finding and returning his...
Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee far exceeded its mission goals for 2014, providing free employment services and job training to 28,159 people and helping 9,558 land jobs. Goodwill’s goals for last year were to assist 20,000 people and to place 6,000 in jobs. Those benchmarks were...
