Goodwill® donors in Southern Georgia are getting the chance to receive more than a tax deduction in return for their donations this week. The parents of current American Idol contestant Phillip Phillips have donated an autographed photo of their son in recognition of Goodwill Industries Week, May 6-12, to be given to one lucky donor at the week’s end.
Phillips hails from Leesburg, GA, and is one of the four remaining contestants on the show. He is also the relative of a Goodwill Industries of the Southern Rivers employee.
“[Goodwill] is such a wonderful organization that helps a lot of needy people in different ways,” Phillips’ father Phillip “Donnie” Phillips, Sr., told station WALB.
“What is interesting about Phillip is he is a very humble young man, and that is kind of like the Goodwill family,” said the local Goodwill’s VP of Operations Mitch Grossman. “We want to offer the Phillips family to be a part of our family.”
In addition to signing the photograph for Goodwill, Phillips is wearing a gray T-shirt with the Goodwill logo this week during American Idol rehearsals.
Goodwill and Phillip Phillips fans can keep an eye out for the ‘Smiling G’ to potentially pop up on a future edition of the show and demonstrate their support by tuning into American Idol at 8 p.m. EST on Wednesday and voting for Phillips.
Watch the WALB interview with Phillips’ family below.
