Director of Production Joan Sundstrom will retire on Sept. 24, 2015, after more than 18 years working with Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee. Before she leaves, she shares some of her most memorable moments. ...
Joshua was often ignored by other students in junior high school because of his autism and his speech impediment. Because he was home-schooled after that, he had few opportunities for socializing, much less work experience....
Myka Bertrand wanted to look like Peter Pan, but not for a trip to Never Never Land. She was headed to her workplace on Nashville’s Music Row, where they were having a Halloween party for employees....
Judy Bond has donated her gently used clothing and small household items to Goodwill for decades, because she believes in the not-for-profit’s mission of helping people find work. ...
Parents and students don’t have to wait for the state’s tax-free weekend to save money on back-to-school apparel ...
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...
