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Our training programs help people get jobs.
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Our stores provide good things at good prices.
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Our youth programs make the future brighter.
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Just as there are things you recycle, there are things you donate.
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Goodwill, not landfill.
Our mission is to provide exemplary job training and related services to help individuals with disabilities and other barriers to self-sufficiency to achieve independence and dignity through work.
2008 Press Release Archive
Leo Purcell: The Life-Changing Connection
A wonderful example of the success of Goodwill’s social enterprise programs is Leo Purcell who is now a team leader in Goodwill’s Somerville store. "I don’t know what I would have done if it hadn’t been for Goodwill," he says. "You see, it all happened because, well, because I had some trouble with the law. Nobody would hire me. Nobody. I tried everywhere and everything, but I couldn’t get a job."
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