NEWS
Goodwill Needs Your Donations Now More Than Ever
3/23/2009
Workforce Development Center - Winston-Salem - Forsyth County
Winston-Salem NC
Goodwill Industries of Northwest North Carolina understands that people are tightening their budgets and stretching their dollars. In these tough economic times, more people are coming to us for help finding a job. Goodwill is working hard to keep up with the increased demand for its job training programs and career services as the state’s unemployment rate reached 9.7 percent in January. Goodwill cannot provide these critical services without your donations to sell in its stores. Goodwill is asking people to be generous this spring as they clean out their closets and donate gently-used clothing and house wares at one of the 80 stores and donation centers across northwest North Carolina.
“Donating clothing and household goods that you no longer need is a form of charity in which anyone can participate,” said Jaymie Eichorn, director of Marketing for Goodwill. “At Goodwill, revenue from the sale of donated goods funds job training programs and career placement services to those who need it most in our communities.”
When someone is having a hard time finding a job, either because of a disability, lack of education or work experience, Goodwill is there to help by selling donations in and using the revenues to fund critical community job training programs that benefit thousands of people each year.
“We want donors to put as much thought into where they donate their clothes and other household items as they do about where they donate money," said Eichorn. “Donating and shopping at Goodwill is making an investment in your local community.”