[caption id="attachment_108" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Karl Houston, Senior Director of Marketing & Community Relations "][/caption] The fall fashion magazines are on the newsstands, enticing you to shop for new sweaters and slacks, shoes and stocking fillers. Now that we’re heading towards Thanksgiving and Christmas, the ads will...
[caption id="attachment_134" align="alignleft" width="209" caption="David Lifsey, President and CEO"][/caption] There’s a new term that’s gaining momentum, both in the for-profit and not-for-profit world. That term is social entrepreneurship and at its core, it places emphasis on conducting business for the greater good, for social change. The...
The Goodwill Career Solutions division provides job readiness, job training, job placement and job retention services for people who are unemployed and seeking employment. We offer many choices or “flavors” for clients to select. We’ll speak more specifically about these choices in future postings....
Going Green is a natural state for Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee. If you think about it, what we do everyday in this organization is the process of recycling. The goods we receive in donations still have another cycle-of-use directly into the homes of our...
How can we say, ‘Thank you,’ to all of our donors? Words certainly aren’t sufficient. For the first time ever, our Goodwill has served more than one million donors by mid-October, allowing us to continue our mission of providing employment and training services in middle...
“I have changed my mind about retiring, and our board has graciously allowed me to do that,” was the message David Lifsey sent to Goodwill Industries International in September. Months after informing our Board of Directors that he planned to retire as president and CEO...
