This Friday marks 46 years since the first Earth Day in 1970. You may not know it, but if you have donated to your local Goodwill or shopped at a local Goodwill store or online you have helped make our planet a little cleaner and a little greener. How much greener? In 2010 Goodwill (and you!) helped divert more than 2.4 billion pounds from landfills through donations to, and purchases from, Goodwill.
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A limited number of local Goodwill organizations offer the convenience of electronic receipts to facilitate your donation tracking for tax purposes. If you donated to a Goodwill in the following areas and need to obtain your donation receipt, please use the contact information below. Atlanta and Surrounding Area Goodwill Industries of North Georgia gwdonate.org (404)
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Goodwill Industries of Dallas (TX) and the Dallas Mavericks partnered to offer an e-cycle and spring cleaning drive from April 6-11. During the drive, 680 different community donors gave 60,860 pounds of material goods, a record-breaking amount for each group.
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On Saturday, May 2, Uber drivers will pick up clothing donations and deliver them to Goodwill free of charge Rockville, MD — For one day this spring, donating clothes will be even easier thanks to an innovative partnership between Goodwill and the popular on demand transportation platform, Uber. On Saturday, May 2, donors can open
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Rockville, MD — During the Spring Bon-Ton Goodwill Sale, which took place from March 12 to March 28, donors brought in donations of clothing, shoes, handbags and household textiles they no longer needed to 270 Bon-Ton, Bergner’s, Boston Store, Carson’s, Elder-Beerman, Herberger’s and Younkers store locations. In return for their donations, customers received coupons toward
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In 2014, Goodwill Industries Serving Southeast Nebraska (Lincoln) conducted its second annual Neighborhood Challenge, a friendly five-month neighborhood competition that promoted community involvement through donation drives and garage sales. The challenge generated more than 24,000 pounds of donations to Goodwill.
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‘Give It Away’ Message from Multi-Platinum Recording Artist’s Top 30-and-Climbing Single “Trailer Hitch” Comes to Life Through Partnership with Goodwill and Encourages Donations NASHVILLE, TN (Dec. 12, 2014) – Multi-platinum Streamsound recording artist Kristian Bush and Goodwill Industries of Houston connected donors and Goodwill® job connection program participants with a benefit concert and donation event
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One-Day Promotion Benefits Local Job Training Programs Rockville, MD — During this busy holiday season, it can be tough to find time to make it to a Goodwill, so Uber is bringing Goodwill to donors. Goodwill is partnering with Uber to collect donations free of charge in Boston, New York City and San Francisco, to
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Rockville, MD — This Fall, the Goodwill Sale, a cause-marketing partnership between The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ: BONT) and Goodwill Industries International, collected more than 2.6 million pounds of clothing and textiles to benefit Goodwill’s job training and employment services. The donations to Goodwill have an estimated value of $10.2 million in potential revenue, which
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Providence, RI Mayor Angel Taveras recently announced a partnership with Goodwill Industries of Rhode Island (Providence) to divert textiles and clothing from the city’s trash and recycling streams.
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