12 Oct Jackson Goodwill Grand Opening Set Oct. 20
The Grand Opening of the Jackson’s newest Goodwill store in one of the city’s premiere shopping areas will be celebrated on Tuesday, Oct. 20, with a ribbon-cutting and numerous door prizes....
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- Goodwill Receives $10,000 Grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation to Support Adult Digital Literacy
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09 Oct Summer Youth Program Prepares Teens for Employment
They weren’t quite magic beans, but they did open up a new world. As Debbie Grant held the 16-ounce can of baked beans in the aisle at Kroger, four teenagers huddled around her, peering at the can's label and hanging on her every word....
25 Sep ENTER GOODWILL’S GREAT GARAGE RESCUE CONTEST
Can’t park your car in your cluttered garage? Can’t find your stepladder, much less a hammer and nails? Enter Goodwill’s Great Garage Rescue contest!...
21 Sep Q&A with Joan Sundstrom, Goodwill’s Director of Production
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. ...
18 Sep Breaking Through With Goodwill’s Summer Work Program
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....
14 Sep Halloween Shoppers Find Plenty of Inspiration at Goodwill
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....
28 Aug No More Lost Receipts: Track Your Goodwill Donations Online
In early August, Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee rolled out a new way to electronically track donations for tax purposes, while getting a discount on haircuts in the bargain. ...
07 Aug ‘About Time’: Loyal Goodwill Donor Hails New Pickup Service
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. ...
30 Jul Goodwill Offers Back-To-School Savings
Parents and students don’t have to wait for the state’s tax-free weekend to save money on back-to-school apparel ...
24 Jul Obion County: a case study in Goodwill’s community impact
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....
10 Jul Estate Donation: Couple’s Final Gesture of Compassion, Generosity
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...
09 Jul Life-changing gift: Goodwill employee receives free car
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...
08 Jul Law Boosts Transparency, Accountability for Donation Bins
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. ...
02 Jul Different Lives, Similar Paths: The Power of Work Offers Hope
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....
30 Jun James Was Living the Good Life, Lost It All, And Now is Rebuilding Through Goodwill
(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...
