Professional football player and recent “Dancing with the Stars” champion Donald Driver still makes time to promote and volunteer with Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin (Milwaukee). On May 25, he participated in two events thanking people who donate to and support Goodwill.
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Professional football player and recent “Dancing with the Stars” champion Donald Driver still makes time to promote and volunteer with Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin (Milwaukee). On May 25, he participated in two events thanking people who donate to and support Goodwill.
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Families in Kalamazoo, MI, will gain access to increased support as they move towards self-sufficiency, thanks to Goodwill Industries of Southwestern Michigan's (Kalamazoo) Life Guides program. The initiative will offer long-term support by helping these families build social capital, navigate community resources, design and meet goals for their families, and earn incentives while meeting milestones.
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This year’s Goodwill Industries® Week, celebrated last week, was one of the most exciting to date. Thirty-six Goodwills across the U.S. and Canada hosted more than 100 on-the-ground career fair events, and for the first time Goodwill Industries International hosted a virtual career fair.
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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.
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The average U.S. couple will spend more than $25,000 on their wedding. Numbers of Goodwill® agencies have answered the call for affordable wedding wear and décor by hosting bridal-themed events and demonstrating ways to make wedding invitations, centerpieces and more from items that can be found at Goodwill.
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Nineteen-year-old Sarah Yoncoskie is getting hands-on experience at Christiana Hospital – part of the largest health care system in Delaware. Yoncoskie participates in Goodwill's Project SEARCH, a program that combines work experience with training in employability and independent living skills to help young adults with disabilities make successful transitions from school to adult life.
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LaVonne Hitchcock was shopping Goodwill Industries of the Redwood Empire’s Santa Rosa outlet store when she noticed a plastic bag full of old airmail envelopes. Knowing the package would ultimately be recycled if not sold, the secondhand buyer and seller added the package to her pile of finds and bought the entire lot for $5. When she opened the package and started reading through the letters, she realized she was in possession of nearly 150 love letters written by a young sailor to a girl he’d met before shipping off to Pearl Harbor shortly before WWII.
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LaVonne Hitchcock was shopping Goodwill Industries of the Redwood Empire’s Santa Rosa outlet store when she noticed a plastic bag full of old airmail envelopes. Knowing the package would ultimately be recycled if not sold, the secondhand buyer and seller added the package to her pile of finds and bought the entire lot for $5. When she opened the package and started reading through the letters, she realized she was in possession of nearly 150 love letters written by a young sailor to a girl he’d met before shipping off to Pearl Harbor shortly before WWII.
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Goodwill's mobile store set up shop at the 2012 Las Vega Stand Down for homeless veterans in March, helping more than 500 people access clothing and employment services.
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Veterans in Central Illinois will receive support in training and search for a job, thanks to a new partnership between Goodwill Industries of Central Illinois and Spoon River College. The program aims to help veteran job seekers overcome challenges to employment and create a cohesive community network to support this population
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Goodwill® agencies are committed to helping college students and other youth succeed by providing access to financial education, mentoring and job readiness skills. While usually on the giving end of youth engagement, Goodwill of Central Florida found itself on the receiving end of a university initiative this month, when University of Central Florida students donated more than 1,400 pounds of clothing during the Sigma Nu fraternity’s annual “Undie Classic.”
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