Success Stories

When you give to Goodwill, you change lives!  The simple act of donating the clothes, furniture, household goods and shoes that you no longer need, want or use, means job training and opportunities for thousands of Tennesseans.  It’s easy to calculate the impact of your donations.  We want to make sure you see all the good you’re doing when you “give it to Goodwill.”  Whether you want to measure the effect of your donation in monetary terms or in terms of how it’s changing lives, you can find it all here.

Walk in the shoes of the people you’ve helped when you’ve donated or shopped.  Click on the names at the top of this page and read the success stories of our clients and employees who know the fulfillment of earning a paycheck.  It’s good for them, it’s good for their families and it's good for their community—an ever-widening ripple effect.

Use the Goodwill Donation Calculator to the right and you’ll see what giving a dozen pairs of shoes, or a bag of clothing, or a purse, adds up to in terms of funding job training and placement.  You’ll discover that when you give one dozen pairs of shoes you provide more than one hour’s worth of free career counseling for someone who is searching for a job with the help of Goodwill’s career counselors.  Donating is more than just a good way to clean the clutter from your closets, avoid the hassle of a yard sale or to take advantage of a tax write-off.  Your donated shoes fund job training and placement for people who want to work but may have a disability or other barrier standing in their way.

Donate forward, fuel our mission to improve lives, to better our communities, and to serve middle and west Tennessee.  No matter how you measure it, giving to Goodwill is good.