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Serving Defiance, Fulton, Hancock,
Henry, Lucas, Ottawa, Paulding, Putnam, Sandusky, Seneca, Williams, Wood, and
Wyandot counties
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Goodwill Industries
of Northwest Ohio is a nonprofit organization providing assessment, job training,
and placement that assists people with disabilities and other work-related
disadvantages to become independent. Goodwill accomplishes this mission by
operating retail stores and other business within the community to provide
on-the-job training and fund Goodwill's programs.
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Goodwill Industries of
Northwest Ohio aspires to be a vital link between local businesses and
trained workers and the community resource for assisting people with
disabilities and other work-related disadvantages to obtain economic
independence. We will develop new and increasingly effective programs in
response to community growth and change.
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Robert G. Huber
President/CEO
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Barry Palmer
Chairman
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Goodwill
training and job placement programs setting records in 2008
As many people
know, Goodwill Industries of Northwest Ohio’s mission to help people
with barriers to employment become independent, contributing members of their
communities through vocational rehabilitation, job training and placement.
Goodwill’s stores are the primary funding source for this effort.
Workforce Development is the department within Goodwill that carries out the
organization’s mission related services. To date in 2008 the workforce development
department is having a record setting year. Through the month of April, 1,011
people have benefited from Goodwill’s vocational services. This
represents 59 percent of the department’s 2008 goal.
The services provided by Goodwill’s team of professionals have led them
to be the third highest referral receiving agency in Northwest
Ohio, this according to the Rehabilitation Services
Commission’s first quarter Community Rehabilitation Providers Utilization
Survey.
Goodwill Industries of Northwest Ohio awarded three-year CARF
accreditation
The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
International announced that Goodwill Industries of Northwest Ohio has been
accredited for a period of three years for its community employment services:
job development, job-site training; comprehensive vocational evaluation
services and employment skills training programs. The latest accreditation is
the eleventh consecutive three-year Accreditation that the international
accrediting body has awarded to Goodwill of Northwest Ohio.
This accreditation decision represents the highest level of accreditation
that can be awarded to an organization and shows the organization’s
substantial conformance to the CARF standards. An organization receiving a
three-year Accreditation has put itself through a rigorous peer review
process and has demonstrated to a team of surveyors during an on-site visit
that its programs and services are of the highest quality, measurable, and
accountable.
CARF is an independent, nonprofit accrediting body whose mission is to
promote the quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services through a
consultative accreditation process that centers on enhancing the lives of the
persons served. The accrediting body establishes consumer-focused standards
to help organizations measure and improve the quality of their programs and
services.
DELL AND GOODWILL LAUNCH FREE COMPUTER RECYCLING SERVICE
Reconnect, a free drop-off program to recycle unwanted computers, was
introduced in February by Dell and Goodwill Industries of Northwest Ohio.
Reconnect serves consumers throughout Northwest Ohio.
The program leverages Dell’s resources and global recycling experience
and the donation and retail infrastructure of Goodwill.
The program will divert nearly one million pounds of used computers and
computer equipment from area landfills over the next year, and help create
job opportunities for individuals with disabilities and other employment
barriers.
People can drop off any brand computer and computer equipment, working and
non-working, at any of Goodwill’s Northwest Ohio
stores or donation centers. Donors are responsible for removing data from
hard drives and other storage media before donating to Goodwill. Goodwill
staff will provide donors with a donation receipt at the time of donation.
For more information and a list of Northwest Ohio Goodwill locations, visit
our website at www.goodwillnwohio.com
Goodwill and WTVG 13abc Get Ready for Tenth Annual Golf Classic
You’re invited to participate in a wonderful afternoon of golf
while having the chance to learn about and help one of the top charities in
the country.
On Monday, August 4, WTVG 13abc will sponsor Goodwill Industries tenth annual
Golf Classic at Stone Ridge Golf Club in Bowling Green, Ohio.
The $95.00 registration cost ($380 per foursome) covers 18 holes of golf,
cart, driving range, lunch and a barbecue chicken and ribs dinner.
Participants will also have a chance to win a 2008 Buick LaCrosse
CXL from Wilson Pontiac-Buick-GMC in Bowling
Green, Ohio. Hole sponsorships for the event are $150.
To register or sponsor a hole, contact Goodwill’s director of marketing
and development, Mark Harris at
419-255-0070, or mharris@goodwillnwohio.org.
For more information visit our website at www.goodwillnwohio.com.
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