My Story: John Wilkerson

June 28, 2010 | By Jenni Baker | Subscribe to "My Story" RSS

I started working with Goodwill Industries^® of Middle Tennessee back in 1992 in the donations department. One of the things I like about working at Goodwill is we’re not only making money for the mission — instead of losing money throwing things away — but we are also are helping the environment because we don’t have so much stuff going into the landfill.

People give us these things hoping we’ll make good use out of them, and that’s what I like seeing done. These items at one time meant a whole lot to these folks that gave them to us.

Goodwill^® is a very fine organization, and it’s done a lot of good things for a lot of people. There are people that would probably have several barriers to employment and not be employed had Goodwill not intervened. I’m one of those people. I’m very happy to be a part of the organization.

Read more about John (PDF) in the Nashville Goodwill’s 2008 Annual Report.

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