Ways You Can Help
Support a Local Goodwill
By choosing to donate to your local Goodwill, you're directly fueling programs designed to meet your community's unique needs.
Support the Goodwill Network
By donating to the global Goodwill network, you're part of a powerful movement that extends beyond local boundaries, impacting lives around the world.
Planned Giving
Planned giving to Goodwill offers a lasting legacy, ensuring your commitment to empowerment and opportunity resonates well into the future.
FAQs
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Who does Goodwill help?
Goodwill serves those with barriers to employment. This includes individuals with disabilities, people with limited work history, those who have experienced corporate downsizing and recipients of government support programs. Goodwill’s services are designed to meet the training and placement needs of the individual.
Where can I donate my stuff?
Contact your local Goodwill to find out where you can drop off your donations or how you can have them picked up.
Does Goodwill make house calls to pick up donations?
Most Goodwills make house calls for furniture or other large items that are hard to transport. Contact your local Goodwill to find out whether or not pick-up service is available in your community.
Does Goodwill offer volunteer opportunities?
Yes! Most local Goodwills have local volunteer chapters. Contact the Goodwill nearest you to learn about volunteer opportunities in your community. Each local Goodwill also has a volunteer board of directors. Local business advisory councils may also contribute experience and expertise to our mission by serving as volunteers.
What is Goodwill, and what does the organization do?
Goodwill is a global social services enterprise that generates opportunities for people to achieve economic stability and build strong families and vibrant communities by offering job training, employment placement services and other community-based programs for people who have disabilities, those who lack education or job experience, and others who face challenges to finding employment Goodwill Industries® is one of the nation’s top five most valuable and recognized nonprofit brands as well as a leading social services enterprise (Cone Nonprofit Power Brand 2009). Goodwill is the leading nonprofit provider of job training programs and career services in the United States and Canada, and its goal is to help people find and keep good jobs.
