16 Mar D Movement: Donate Forward March 20 – 26

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One of my favorite movies, “Pay It Forward,” starred Haley Joel Osment who portrayed a 12-year-old boy who wanted to make the world a better place. In the movie, he does a favor for someone, without any expectation of being paid back. That simple concept...

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10 Mar Bridal Blog: How will you spend your wedding gown savings?

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  The Goodwill Wedding Gala is fast approaching. It will be so much fun to watch brides as they find their dream wedding gown. As I think back about my own special day, I can remember dreaming about my wedding, and how I wanted everything to...

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01 Mar Mission Possible: Success That Counts

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[caption id="attachment_174" align="alignleft" width="104" caption="David Lifsey, President and CEO"][/caption] I wasn’t a Goodwill employee long before I learned that success means many things. Until I came here, I thought of success as having a lot of money, won/lost records and items that I’ve accumulated. But Goodwill...

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24 Feb Bridal Blog: Gaylord Opryland Hosts Goodwill Gala Shoot

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Great talent and a beautiful location for our Goodwill photo shoot equals one fabulous Look Book. On January 28th, the Goodwill team and Goodwill employee models all met at the Gaylord Opryland Resort to create our 2011 Look Book. We had been planning this photo...

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23 Feb D Movement: Calculate Your Spring Cleaning Impact

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Spring is in the air! Yes it is. Does anyone feel like you need to do some Spring cleaning? Cleaning out closets and drawers is a great way to start a new season. Really, come on get these items into Goodwill, where...

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15 Feb Been Green: It’s the little things that count

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A little more than a year ago, we started a new project to compliment our established metal recovery program in the salvage/recycling department. We send all of our electronics to a responsible electronics recyclers, but before they go out the door our goal is to cut...

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31 Jan Bridal Blog: What does Goodwill have to do with wedding season?

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[caption id="attachment_395" align="alignleft" width="121" caption="NaTisha Moultry, Community Relations Manager"][/caption] It’s that time of year around here. It’s my favorite time of year. What I like to call wedding season. When I mention this most people ask, “Don’t you work for Goodwill? What does Goodwill have to...

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26 Jan Mission Possible: Ripple Effects

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Our Goodwill has come to view ripples, and the circles that follow as a drop falls into the water, as something of a company mascot, not as exciting as a bear or tiger, perhaps, but meaningful for us nevertheless.  The significance is the spreading impact of...

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14 Jan Career Scoop: Conquering Computers

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By Tom Lee, Career Solutions Trainer Whether we intend to or not, we all make assumptions. A chef assumes anyone could scramble an egg. A mechanic assumes anyone should be able to change a flat tire, and a computer instructor might assume anyone, in today’s world,...

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05 Jan The Making of the Goodwill TV Commercials

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By Jimmy Chaffin, Partner, DVL Public Relations and Advertising Several years ago DVL had the pleasure of creating a new advertising campaign designed to capture and explain the mission of Goodwill and how what you give provides jobs and changes lives. Our approach was simple:  let the...

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20 Dec Career Scoop: Good Choices Make Good Lives

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When people think about Goodwill they think about shopping and making donations to help other people go to work. But what they may not know is that Goodwill is also about helping young people in middle school and high school learn about the importance of...

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08 Dec Career Scoop: Lifting job seekers to another level

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By Crystal Tyler, Computer Instructor Twice a week, every Monday afternoon and Friday morning, the computer lab at our Berry Road Career Solutions Center transforms! It becomes the home of our forklift training program. Most forklift operators will tell you, “I’ve driven for years and never...

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06 Dec GW Boutique: 12 Days of Online Goodwill Holiday Shopping!

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By Gail Champion, OnlineGoodwill.com Manager [caption id="attachment_326" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Item of the Day - 32' LED HDTV!"][/caption] The countdown is on. You officially have just a wee bit more than two weeks to buy online and have the perfect gift ready to go under the tree! How to...

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02 Dec D Movement: ‘Tis the season for giving… but you have given all year long

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[caption id="attachment_318" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Jennifer Kalifa, Donations Manager"][/caption] I’ve been a part of Goodwill for almost 18 years and, let me tell you, it’s been exciting! I have seen the company grow and what’s been especially important to me is how many lives we’ve changed. It’s...

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23 Nov Being Green, Doing Good

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Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee diverts many products to salvage and recycling opportunities that would have ended up in the landfill. Among these products are textile, shoes, purses, belts, hats, backpacks, toys and stuffed animals, household goods, books, paper, cardboard, electrical appliances, electronics, cell phones,...

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