Category: Press Releases

Top designers are heading to New York for Fashion Week, so follow their lead! Head to your local Bon-Ton Stores to stock up on affordable fall fashions – and while you’re at it, donate what you no longer need to Goodwill®. The Bon-Ton Store’s semi-annual Goodwill Sale takes place September 14 – 28, and when you donate your gently used clothing and textiles at any 275 Bon-Ton Stores locations or furniture galleries you will receive a discount coupon toward new merchandise. Your donations will be sold at Goodwill stores and revenues will fund job training programs and other services in your community that help people earn jobs, be independent and care for their families.

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WHO: Join Purdue University Breaking New Ground Resource Center, Goodwill Industries International, the Arthritis Foundation Indiana Chapter and the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the National AgrAbility Project. Learn how this USDA-sponsored program has impacted rural communities as well as  farmers and ranchers with disabilities. Agriculture consistently

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ROCKVILLE, MD — Goodwill Industries International was recently recognized as a leading employer of Navy Reserve sailors for the vital role that Goodwill® plays in the lives of sailors, their families, and their contributions to the Navy Total Force. “Employers like Goodwill enable our Navy Reserve sailors to serve America on a part‐time basis and

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ROCKVILLE, MD — While the current U.S. unemployment rate remains almost unchanged at 9.1 percent, the median length of time it takes the people without jobs to find employment has increased sharply from five to 10 weeks since the economic recession. The longer people remain unemployed, the less likely they are to find work and

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Today, the Dockers® brand announces its plans to team with leading Canadian brand, ROOTS, in staging a series of fun, public ‘try-on’ events dedicated to the introduction of its newest denim alternative: the ‘Alpha’ khaki. Lifting a jean’s best attributes—including its slim fit, lower rise, and rugged construction—the ‘Alpha’ combines the ease of denim with the more polished design details of an iconic khaki pant and will be offered in a wide range of versatile colours along with distressed, vintage-derived finishes. To mark the new style’s introduction, the khaki leader and ROOTS—a first in their own right—will produce a number of “pant-drop-and-swap” events on Saturday, August 27 from 12pm to 4pm in five ROOTS store locations in Halifax, Toronto, Calgary, Montreal and Vancouver.

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Helping children become compassionate citizens is of top priority for most parents and teachers. One of the easiest ways to inspire young people to be charitable this back-to-school season is to encourage secondhand shopping and donating to Goodwill®. The time before school begins offers a unique opportunity for parents to help their children decide what they no longer need and donate those items to Goodwill. At the same time, families can shop at Goodwill stores and online at shopgoodwill.com to find what their children need for school, including clothing, supplies, electronics, musical instruments, sporting equipment and more.

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Michael Meyer of Goodwill Industries International is furthering his commitment to the reuse movement by joining the Board of Reuse Alliance - a national nonprofit working to increase awareness of reuse by educating the public about its social, environmental and economic benefits. Michael Meyer is Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Sourcing for Goodwill Industries International Inc., which provides services to 165 independent, community-based Goodwill® agencies. Meyer’s work focuses on creating business relationships that support four key areas of the Goodwill social enterprise: leveraging buying opportunities through strategic sourcing; contract opportunities for the employment of those served by Goodwill; Goodwill’s retail business, through the acquisition of goods and services for its more than 2,500 store locations, and business models for reuse, repurpose, landfill diversion and sustainable consumption for the billions of pounds of donations that enter our donation stream.

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The Donate Movement, a public awareness campaign powered by Goodwill®, has been nominated for a CLASSY Award in the “Most Effective Awareness Campaign By A Charity” category. StayClassy presents the CLASSY awards — the largest philanthropic awards contest in the country — to recognize the most outstanding philanthropic achievements by nonprofits, businesses and individuals nationwide. From now until August 26, public voting is open at http://classyawards.org for each of the 12 categories, and there are 25 finalists in each of those categories; six of those categories are strictly for nonprofits.

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The Goodwill Industries International board of directors has elected Paul Chapin from Ontario, Canada, to serve a one-year term. Chapin took office during the annual Goodwill® Delegate Assembly, which was held in late June in Rochester, NY. Chapin is the president and CEO of Goodwill, The Amity Group in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Chapin has been a

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For the third year in a row, Goodwill Industries International and Family Circle magazine are teaming up for a Back-to-School Clothing Drive at Goodwill stores and donation centers across the country. The drive, which runs July 22nd through August 23rd, aims to encourage families to donate their gently used clothing to fund support services that

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Jeff Brewer, an athlete at Goodwill Columbus (OH), took home a gold medal at the 2011 Special Olympics World Games, held at the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, Greece, from June 25 to July 4. The 37-year-old placed first in the 400-meter dash achieving his best personal time of 1:01 and becoming a world champion in the process. He also competed in the standing long jump and the 4x100-meter relay team for Team USA, which took fourth place in the event.

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Dr. James K. Hazy, associate professor of management and entrepreneurship at Adelphi University, has been named treasurer of the Goodwill Industries International board of directors and will serve a one-year term. Dr. Hazy had previously served on the board contributing to the audit, finance, international and strategic issues and planning committees.

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