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Need room for new furniture? More space for a new television or computer? A place to unload clothes you haven’t worn in years, or toys the kids have outgrown? If so, bring them to Goodwill of North Georgia’s Ponce de Leon Donation Center in Atlanta (30308). You’ll get rid of some clutter and support our mission to put people to work. The Goodwill Ponce de Leon Donation Center accepts gently used clothing, books, furniture, computers, and all kinds of other household items. Proceeds from your generous donations helps us generate the revenue to fulfill our mission. We look forward to seeing you soon at the Goodwill Ponce de Leon Donation Center.
No matter what your favorite day to shop is, we’ve got you covered. The Goodwill of North Georgia West End Thrift Store in Atlanta (30310) is open seven days a week. Our staff restocks items on the racks and shelves throughout the day, and merchandise on the entire sales floor is refreshed every 21 days. Come visit our Atlanta West End Store for the thrill of a thrifting treasure hunt. You never know what you’ll find.
Need room for new furniture? More space for a new television or computer? A place to unload clothes you haven’t worn in years, or toys the kids have outgrown? If so, bring them to Goodwill of North Georgia’s West End Donation Center in Atlanta (30310). You’ll get rid of some clutter and support our mission to put people to work. The Goodwill West End Donation Center accepts gently used clothing, books, furniture, computers, and all kinds of other household items. Proceeds from your generous donations helps us generate the revenue to fulfill our mission.
Need room for new furniture? More space for a new television or computer? A place to unload clothes you haven’t worn in years, or toys the kids have outgrown? If so, bring them to Goodwill of North Georgia’s Ansley Donation Center in Atlanta (30324). You’ll get rid of some clutter and support our mission to put people to work. The Goodwill Ansley Donation Center accepts gently used clothing, books, furniture, computers, and all kinds of other household items. Proceeds from your generous donations helps us generate the revenue to fulfill our mission.
No matter what your favorite day to shop is, we’ve got you covered. The Goodwill of North Georgia Buckhead Thrift Store in Atlanta (30342) is open seven days a week. Our staff restocks items on the racks and shelves throughout the day, and merchandise on the entire sales floor is refreshed every 21 days. Come visit our Atlanta Buckhead Store for the thrill of a thrifting treasure hunt. You never know what you’ll find.
Need room for new furniture? More space for a new television or computer? A place to unload clothes you haven’t worn in years, or toys the kids have outgrown? If so, bring them to Goodwill of North Georgia’s Buckhead Donation Center in Atlanta (30342). You’ll get rid of some clutter and support our mission to put people to work. The Goodwill Buckhead Donation Center accepts gently used clothing, books, furniture, computers, and all kinds of other household items. Proceeds from your generous donations helps us generate the revenue to fulfill our mission.
When you donate your new and gently used items, local Goodwill organizations sell them in stores or on shopgoodwill.com and use the revenue generated to provide valuable employment training and job placement services for people in your community.
Looking for the nearest Goodwill? Use our locator to find the nearest career center (for help finding a job), retail store, donation site, or outlet store (which sells items in bulk) operated by our network of 155 independent, community-based Goodwills.
Generally, we recommend donating at donation centers staffed by attendants. In many cases, the items collected in bins often support for-profit groups, rather than aiding nonprofit, charitable organizations. To help you make informed donation decisions, we offer the following handy guide.
In December 2017, the United States Congress passed a new tax bill into law. While the new law did not affect returns for businesses or individuals for the 2017 tax year, it does change a number of tax provisions for 2018. Primarily, the new tax law practically doubles the standard tax deduction for most filers, which will make it a more attractive option to more Americans. The law does not change the fact that donors continue to be responsible for valuing their donations and that they may be able to deduct the value of those donations if they choose to itemize on their taxes. For any advice regarding the preparation of your taxes, please consult a reputable tax advisor.
Donating to local Goodwill organizations has, and continues to be, a way for people to help others in their community. Goodwill uses the revenue from donated items to create employment placement and job training to contribute to our mission. More than 101 million people in the U.S. and Canada donate to Goodwill, knowing their clothing and household goods will be put to good use.
When you drop off your donations at Goodwill, you’ll receive a receipt from a donation attendant. Hang on to this receipt. At the end of the year, if you itemize deductions on your taxes, you can claim a tax deduction for clothing and household items that are in good condition.
Your financial gift goes a long way to change lives. As a matter of fact, more than 92 cents of every dollar goes directly to programs and services in Orange County that help people facing barriers get and keep jobs. Consider making a difference today. Donate today.
The Marketplace is our auction house and outlet shopping destination, also nicknamed locally “the bins.” Here you can shop for clothing by-the-pound and participate in live auctions of housewares, clothing and more.
You don’t want to skip this hidden gem located at 2722 W. Fifth St. in Santa Ana.
Goodwill of Orange County has been accredited by CARF for 10 of its Community Integration, Employment Development Services, Organizational Employment Services and Community Employment Services programs.
Perhaps the easiest way to support Goodwill Hawaii is by donating your gently used clothing and household items to one of our donation centers located statewide. Donations are sold in our retail stores and 90 cents of every dollar earned funds our employment programs for the community. Please keep in mind what items WE ACCEPT and DO NOT ACCEPT.
Through the AmazonSmile program, you can select Goodwill industries of Hawaii to receive 0.5% of your eligible purchases. Start your Amazon shopping by clicking the link below or search for Goodwill Industries of Hawaii.
The following donations centers are open and accepting donations. Furniture donations are accepted at most locations. See listing below for which locations are accepting furniture. To donate, simply pull up to our donation center and one of our donation attendants will gladly assist in removing your items from your vehicle. Please observe all traffic laws in and around our donation centers.
Brief unplanned closures may occur during normal hours due to capacity and high-demand. Don’t leave your items at centers when closed. These items will likely be wasted and lose the opportunity to be turned into help for people in our community.
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We operate over 35 conveniently located donation sites across Santa Clara County and San Benito County. Each year, we receive almost one million donations and divert over 40 million pounds of waste from local landfills. In addition to protecting the environment, Goodwill of Silicon Valley uses your donations to create jobs and provide services to those facing barriers to employment.
Goodwill of Silicon Valley accepts a wide variety of items including clothing, housewares, shoes, books, jewelry, and electronics (working and non-working). We also accept printers, microwaves, vacuums, sellable furniture, small appliances, foreign currency, and baubles.
Goodwill has 38 blue donation boxes, branded with the Goodwill logo and contact information, located throughout central and coastal Virginia in parking lots of partner organizations, schools, and area businesses.
Search the map below for donation locations, including Goodwill stores, attended donation centers, and 24-hour bins near you. For driving directions, click the map icon or more information link in the list below. Your donations of clothing, shoes and household items to Goodwill help change lives!
In fiscal year 2018, Goodwill organizations generated a total of $6.1 billion in revenue, of which $5.27 billion was spent on charitable services, and $646 million was spent on salaries and other operating expenses. Services constituted 89 percent of expenses.[8] In 2015, the group served more than 37 million people, with more than 312,000 people placed into employment.[9]
Today, Goodwill has become an international nonprofit organization that takes in more than $4.8 billion in annual revenue and provides more than 300,000 people with job training and community services each year.[13]
The revenues fund job training and other services to prepare people for job success. Examples of Goodwill's presence on eBay are Goodwill Industries of Maine, Seattle, San Francisco, and many other locations. Goodwill locations that operate on eBay research donated items for higher profit than could be brought in-store, and instead list those items on eBay for auction.
In 2010, through their involvement in Goodwill's programs, more than 170,000 people were placed into employment. They earned $2.7 billion in salaries and wages, and as tax-paying citizens, they contributed to the community. This amounts to an average annual earning of less than $16,000.[19] Goodwill also generates income to help businesses and the federal government fill gaps caused by labor shortages, time constraints, and limited space or equipment. Local Goodwill branches train and employ contract workers to fill outsourced needs for document management, assembly, mailing, custodial work, grounds keeping and more. Goodwill claims that more than 84 percent of its total revenue is used to fund education and career services and other critical community programs.[13] Also in 2010, Goodwill provided people with training careers in industries such as banking, IT and health care, as well as offering English-language training, education, transportation, and child care services.[19]
When merchandise cannot be sold at a normal Goodwill store, it is taken to a "Goodwill Outlet" or "Bargain Store" where items are mostly sold by weight, with prices ranging from $0.49 to $1.69 per pound, depending on the location. The wide selection and massive discounts on a variety of household goods typically attract a fervent following of regular customers, some of whom make a full-time living buying and re-selling goods. There are also many vendors who buy this merchandise in bulk, and they send the merchandise to third-world countries.
In May 2022, Goodwill Industries International’s announced a $14 million investment in their Digital Career Accelerator. The donation made by Google.org of $7 million in direct grants and $7 million in search ads on Google aims to reach more than 2,000,000 people across the U.S and Canada though infrastructure expansion to aid the development of digital skills and career training.[23]
In 2010, Goodwill launched the Donate Movement to demonstrate the value that donated goods have for people and the planet. Goodwill's vision for the Donate icon is a universal reminder to 'recycle' through responsible donation, helping provide opportunities for others while diverting usable items from landfills.[26]
On the occasion of its 100th anniversary in 2002, Goodwill Industries launched an international workforce development initiative designed to integrate 20 million people into the workplace by the year 2020.
Known as the Goodwill Industries 21st Century Initiative, the plan includes broad strategies for getting people into good jobs that enable them to become self-sufficient. These strategies include providing job and technology training for a 21st-century workforce, offering family strengthening services to support workers and their families, and developing business opportunities to employ individuals who were previously considered unemployable.[27]
GoodProspects is an online program of Goodwill where people exploring career options can get advice from people who have worked in the field in which they are interested. Career mentors advising users are online volunteers. GoodProspects was launched in the Fall of 2011, funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration. It is currently supported by Accenture and SafeLink Wireless.[30] [31]
Goodwill will generally accept donations of clothing, shoes, books, accessories (handbags, belts), dishes, furniture in good condition, household decorations, small appliances including vacuum cleaners, and consumer electronics including alarm clocks. Even if they are deemed unfit to be sold in a store, these items can be sold as bulk lots, and so they can still generate income.[33]
A 2013 article on Watchdog.org reported that Goodwill's tax returns showed that more than 100 Goodwills pay less than minimum wage while simultaneously paying more than $53.7 million in total compensation to top executives.[37] Douglas Barr, former CEO of the Goodwill of Southern California, was the highest paid Goodwill executive in the country.[38] He received total compensation worth $1,188,733, including a base salary of $350,200, bonuses worth $87,550, retirement benefits of $71,050, and $637,864 in deferred compensation, after serving as CEO for 17 years. This is often incorrectly cited as his salary[37] "In 2011, the Columbia Willamette Goodwill, one of the largest in the country, says it paid $922,444 in commensurate wages to approximately 250 people with developmental disabilities. These employees worked 159,584 hours for an average hourly wage of $5.78. The lowest paid worker received just $1.40 per hour."[37]
In 2018, CEO Rich Cantz of Goodwill Northern New England (NNE) put out a video statement addressing the false "Think Before You Donate" rumors that alleged owner Mark Curran profits $2.3 million a year from the organization, and no money was going to charity.[39] In the statement, he says that Goodwill NNE does, in fact, give to charities and works to provide resources for brain injury rehabilitation centers, those with disabilities, and veterans seeking work. Further, the website states that "Mark Curran" is neither the owner nor CEO. As of 2020, Steven Preston is the CEO of Goodwill Industries International and has to report to a volunteer board of directors.[40] In 2020, the stores in New England was still running a voiceover during shopping hours that reiterated this message to shoppers. The claims appeared in a longer email covering several for-profit and non-profit organizations, which was also debunked by Snopes.[41]