The Goodwill Industry of Akron, Ohio is a wonderful organization that I am happy to support in both donation of items and being a patron of their stores. I feel the organization is well run. We as a society are so fickle when it comes to the stuff we aquire and it is great that the Goodwill is an organization that utilizes the extra STUFF for a greater cause that is educating people and getting them employed.
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- EIN 34-0252230
- (330) 724-6995
- 570 E Waterloo Rd Akron OH 44319-1223 USA
- www.goodwillakron.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Human Services
Mission: Goodwill industries of akron, ohio, inc is a not-for-profit corporation that helps individuals prepare for, find, and retain employment. Goodwill serves the five-county region of summit, portage, medina, ashland, and richland. Goodwill helps to directly strengthen the region's workforce through its employment programs and indirectly through the net proceeds from its retail outlets and contract services division.
Programs: Items are donated from generous donors through its retail stores, attended donation sites, and through estate or home pickups. The items are sold in its 14 retail stores, boutique, online through shopgoodwill. Com, ebooks, or auto auctions. Items that do not sell in retail locations are sold through an outlet store. Remaining unsold donations are sold as salvage to keep items from the trash, as well as earning dollars to promote the mission. A total of 329 work experience, work adjustment, and vocational evaluation clients participated in training or employment experience in the retail area in 2017.
mission services includes a vast array of employee/employer services for the career/job-seeker. The goodwill industries of akron, ohio, inc. Offers career exploration, advising services, resume and interview preparation, as well as skill identification. For the business/employer, we offer recruiting, applicant screening, and pre-employment testing. For those in need of more intensive services, goodwill offers the following individualized services: assessments, adjustments, evaluations for individuals with visual impairments, job coaching, placement and retention, work experience, and youth programs. Workforce development also hosts a radio reading program serving the visually impaired or cognitively challenged in the area. The elizabeth clark program serves those in need in our area with vouchers to our retail locations during 2017. Workforce development referred 218 participants for placement and placed 187. In total, it served 9,390 individuals, in addition to 218 receiving placement services, 163 received vocational evaluations, assessments, and adjustments; 147 participated in youth programs; 233 participated in work experience; 407 participated in job skill classes, workshops, and job fairs; 5,910 received job search assistance and employer services, including recruitment, screening, testing, training and outplacement; 24 received job coaching services; 2,319 received other services including bus passes, elizabeth clark emergency fund gift cards, and radio reading.
contract services includes assembly operations and industrial sewing and is certified to iso 9001 2008. It is a participant in the state use program, providing items such as safety vests, towels, washcloths, aprons and laundry bags. Its sewing department also offers customized industrial sewing for area businesses. Assembly operations offers local businesses with individualized assembly needs, such as collating, die-cutting, heat shrinking, packaging, kitting, de-manufacturing, re-work, sorting, labeling and prototyping . 50 individuals in work experience, vocational evaluation, and work adjustment were provided training or employment experience in 2017 through the contracts division.