Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Louisiana, Inc.
(Goodwill) offers opportunities to people with disabilities and other barriers to improve their economic self-sufficiency through training, education, support services and employment..
How You Can Help Us Make a Difference.
• Shop at Goodwill Retail Stores. • Donate clothing and household
items • Make a monetary donation. • Hire a Goodwill graduate. •
Partner with Goodwill’s contract services department. • Remember Goodwill
with a bequest your will.
4/19/2011
PROTECT THE PLANET, PROMOTE STRONG FAMILIES, DONATE TO
GOODWILL
This Earth Day, April 22, Goodwill ® urges donors to
join the millions of people who are using the Donation
Impact Calculator (patent pending) at
donate.goodwill.org to see how their gently used
clothing and household goods help protect the planet
while funding job training programs, employment
placement services and other vital programs in
communities nationwide. [more..]
Take a
chance for charity to win two tickets to Jazz Fest on May 7th,. For
$1 purchased at New Orleans area stores, you take a chance to win 2
tickets to Jazz Fest on May 7th, two roundtrip shuttle passes and a
$25 Visa card. Proceeds benefits Goodwill’s youth mentoring program.
Drawing is April 27th at Goodwill headquarters. Winner need not be
present to win. Raffle tickets available at the following New
Orleans area stores:
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Kelly recently celebrated her 10-year anniversary and is proud of the work she does for Goodwill. “Of all my experiences here, it’s the friends I’ve made that I treasure most,” said Kelly. “And I feel like the work we do here is important and helps others in the community.”
They say only a dream comes to sleeping men. Not so for Javan Holly, who was sleeping under the bridge one summer day when a Goodwill worker awoke him, offering refreshments and a helping hand to turn his life around.
Thirty-eight year old Alicia Torres has
been breaking down barriers since she was a child. The youngest of six
children, she’s a two-time winner of the Junior Special Olympics and a star
employee at the Kenner Goodwill Retail Store & Donation Center.
Edward Jones, known warmly as “Mr. Moe,” has never let adversity get in the way of living life to the fullest. “Every day is a good day,” says Mr. Moe who knows all the regular customers by name. He joined Goodwill’s Esplanade store and donation center team in 2006
Before coming to Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Louisiana, Inc., 27-year-old Adell Stepter never had a job. Today, he’s one of Goodworks’ most dependable and punctual employees and has missed only one day of work in his eight years
Andrew Johnson came to Goodwill Industries after his former employer lost the contract at the Navel Air Base. It’s been 10 years since he joined the team, yet Andrew still arrives at work every day with a smile on his face and a contagious enthusiasm.
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Latest News
10/15/2011
Go Goodwill Haunting! Discover your next Halloween costume at Goodwill
Halloween is the one chance for anyone to be whoever he or she wants to be. The
possibilities are endless, and with a little imagination, anyone can score a great costume for less at any of Goodwill's 14 stores in southeast Louisiana. Goodwill stores are stocked with affordable Halloween decor and everything you need to create a unique costume.
8/11/2011
Goodwill GOODGUIDES® Back to School Bash Photo
Opportunity
Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Louisiana, Inc. is hosting a
Back to School Bash for dozens of individuals enrolled in
GOODGUIDES®—a mentoring program that helps disadvantaged youth
between the ages of 12 and 17 build career plans and skills and
prepare for school completion, post-secondary training and
productive work. GOODGUIDES is funded by a U.S. Department of
Justice Grant dispersed to 56 independent Goodwill agencies around
the country.
7/22/2011 Thrift
Store Documentarian Lands at Goodwill in New Orleans
All Thrifty States, a photographic essay project, promotes a healthy
consumer product cycle that includes saving natural resources,
energy and money by purchasing used goods. The project is
spearheaded by Jenna Isaacson, a Washington-DC based independent
visual journalist and lover of all things thrift. Isaacson has been
traveling country since June 18th in a fuel-efficient RV from Cruise
America. Isaacson will be at Goodwill Store at 3400 Tulane Avenue
today photographically documenting Goodwill stores..