Since 1933, Goodwill Industries of Northwest Ohio has provided employment and job training for thousands of men and women who have had disabilities and/ or work-related disadvantages.

Three Main Operating Divisions
Goodwill has three distinct operating divisions - Workforce Development, Retail Sales, and Contract Services - serving the community through quality people, services and merchandise.

Workforce Development
At the heart of our mission are work oriented training programs. Dating back to the 1950's, our programs are accredited and professionally designed to help people overcome personal barriers to employment. Barriers to employment have traditionally meant physical, mental, emotional, social, behavioral, and learning disabilities. But now we include extended time away from the workforce, homelessness, criminal history, illiteracy and welfare dependency.

Retail Sales
The collection, processing and resale of good quality donations of clothing, furniture, computers, and household items provide not only employment for many dedicated men and women but supports the mission through the revenue generated by the retail sales. Eighty-four cents of every revenue dollar generated is channeled into the workforce development programs.

Industrial Contract Services
These professionally supervised and quality monitored services include, but are not limited to, assembly, packaging, sorting, inspection and rework. We have ample production and storage space available as well as ideal loading and unloading capabilities.

Janitorial Services
For many years this division of Goodwill has provided janitorial services to private sector as well as state and federal projects. By contracting with local industries to perform a variety of janitorial services, we provide jobs for people with disabilities and other barriers to employment - one more way Goodwill works to strengthen our community.