Goodwill Employees Share 117 Hours of Impact

Goodwill continues to recognize the value that volunteer work brings to our employees, our organization, and our communities.  Community Days linked us to the community, with three events supporting our mission: Connecting people to work. Preparing people for life. Two recent events focused on advancing our commitment to youth by supporting literacy skills and the other on creating healthy communities.

Goodwill employees packed over 100 blessing bags at Peace Campus—bags of essential personal care items that are given to individuals that visit the campus and are in need of toiletries. The collective efforts of our Goodwill employees created 48 volunteer hours to clean out a cluttered basement at a Peace Campus home, resulting in a donation for a local Goodwill Store & Donation Center. 

Then eleven Goodwill employees headed to Junior Achievement in Milwaukee to work with 55 students from Morse Middle School for the Gifted and Talented. Goodwill volunteers contributed 55 hours to help students build a foundation to make intelligent financial decisions related to income, expenses, saving and credit. 

There were also nine Goodwill employees who volunteered at Bernie’s Book Bank in Lake Bluff, Illinois. Bernie’s Book Bank is a non-profit focused on increasing book ownership, improving literacy growth and delivering age-appropriate and culturally relevant books to children across six Illinois counties. Goodwill volunteers contributed 14 volunteer hours to pack book bags for local kindergarten and first-grade students. Each of the 610 book bags packed contained eight books, for a total of 4,880 books.