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10 unusual facts about Goodwill Industries


Easton, Maryland

In 2008, a lost painting of a Paris street scene by Édouard Cortès was discovered amongst donated items at a Goodwill Industries thrift store in Easton.

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Goodwill Industries

Goodwill Industries International and Goodwill Industries of Central Texas (Austin) hosted their first pop-up retail shop, POP!, at South by Southwest in 2013.

Organization expert Lorie Marrero is the face of the Donate Movement, which began in 2010, and ABC correspondent Evette Rios joined Goodwill's cause in 2012 to help appeal to the Latin American market.

John Parker Boyd

In 2008 a Mississippi woman, Charlotte Dillard, purchased at a Goodwill store in Georgia for slightly more than seven dollars an antique two-volume Bible inscribed "Symphonia A. Little presented by her uncle General Boyd." At the time of the purchase, Dillard planned to keep the books and display them at her home.

Louisiana Pelican Classic

The benefiting charity from the Louisiana Pelican Classic is Goodwill Industries of Acadiana.

Rockford Elk's Lodge No. 64

It sat vacant for fourteen years, when it was donated to The Abilities Center, Goodwill Industries.

Textile recycling

For consumers the most common way of recycling textiles is reuse through reselling or donating to charity (Goodwill Industries, Salvation Army, etc.) However certain communities in the United States have been accepting textiles in curbside pickup since 1990.

WARP-CD

Broadcasting on a tower on Gandy Boulevard in St. Petersburg, adjacent to Goodwill, WARP broadcasts on an east-west beam, towards central Pinellas County and Tampa, to protect the signals of Gainesville's WCJB-TV and Fort Myers' WBBH-TV, both also broadcasting on channel 20.

Welland Canal, bridge 13

With the closure of many Welland industries and the resultant increase in numbers of persons in need, the downtown area has become home to organizations such as Goodwill and similar service groups, as opposed to significant private enterprise.


Arthur T. Gregorian

In 1953, as President of Morgan Memorial and President of Goodwill Industries, he called his friend and fellow Armenian, Stephen P. Mugar, and asked if he could place a new collection receptacle he had designed in the parking lot of the Star Market in Wellesley Hills.

Earl Lestz

In addition, he has served as Chairman of the Board of the Hollywood Entertainment Museum, as Vice Chairman of the Hollywood Historic Trust, on the Board of Directors of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, and on the Board of Governors of Goodwill Industries of Southern California.

Presidio Graduate School

Employers include: Accenture, ClimateCHECK, the cities of Berkeley and Mountain View, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Goodwill Industries, Mattel, NBC, PETA, Sundance Channel, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and Wake Forest University.