Your donations provide good quality, low-cost goods to individuals and families who need them most.
Goodwill depends on the donation of clothing and household goods to fulfill its mission of helping people with barriers to self-sufficiency to achieve independence and dignity through work. Each year, Goodwill collects about 18 million pounds of donations at its donation centers, retail stores, and at ZOOTS dry cleaners in eastern and central Massachusetts.
Your tax deductible donations of goods do much good. When they arrive at Goodwill, they:
Whether it is an individual living with a developmental disability who receives on-the-job-training sorting, pin-tagging and hanging your donated clothing; a single parent able to support her family through her job in one of the Goodwill Stores, or the 16 year-old girl growing up in a family of limited means who is able to find her "dream prom dress" at one of The Goodwill Stores – when you donate goods to Goodwill you help to make a very big difference in people's lives.
Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries was founded in 1895 in Boston’s South End to provide impoverished immigrants with jobs and to furnish the community with affordable goods. It was the first in what is now a worldwide network of 183 independent affiliates.

Cleo Lewis: Connections Make the Future Bright
Sometimes the connection to Goodwill is so strong, Goodwill becomes like family. That is how it has been for Cleo Lewis, a bright sophomore at Charlestown High School, who has been enrolled in Goodwill’s after-school program, BNY Mellon Academy for Girls, since she was in grade school.
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