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Mission
Transforming lives through the power of work: Goodwill Southern California serves persons with disabilities or other vocational disadvantages and local businesses seeking qualified employees by providing education, skills training, work experience and job placement services.
Since 1916, Goodwill Southern California has offered basic education, job training, and work opportunities for people with disabilities and other vocational disadvantages (e.g., homelessness, illiteracy, substance abuse issues, former gang involvement, lack of job skills, or welfare dependence).At Goodwill Southern California, people learn the skills they need to experience the joy of earning their own way and the dignity of becoming productive contributors to our community.The sum of our energies, our physical resources, our creativity and our funds is totally focused on helping people with disabilities and other barriers to employment to become more self-sufficient and independent.Goodwill Southern California creates hope, jobs and futures.
Key Facts
Geographic areas served:
Los Angeles County North of Rosecrans, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties
Results to date:
2009 Numbers
MISSION
People served: 59,310
People placed in community employment: 4,132
Average wage of those placed: $11.56
Receiving benefits: 52 %
Businesses served: 3,453
“GREEN” BOTTOM LINE
Goodwill recycled
Textiles: 14.6 million
Electronics: 5.5 million
Paper Products: 5.9 million
FINANCIALS
Total revenue: 110 million
Program expenses: 92 percent of budget
(Highest) 4-star rating from Charity Navigator: eight years in a row
FACILITIES
Campuses: 3
Service/program sites: 24
Retail stores: 62
Donation sites: 41
Computer Recycling plants: 3
Secure Shredding Plants: 2
92 percent of our total revenue goes to our programs and services
Key Staff
Doug Barr, President and CEO