Partners
Goodwill Industries- Big Bend, Inc. not only focuses on our dedicated employees and those we serve in our Career Training Centers, we take pride in investing into our communities.
Many organizations would not exist if it was not for Goodwill’s financial and personnel support. The following organizations received support:
Offers free school supplies to Leon County Teachers. Goodwill partnered with Leon County Schools, Leon County and Sustainable Tallahassee to open The Sharing TREE in August 2010. In 2010, 1,200 teachers have shopped at The Sharing TREE with over 30,000 items been given away at an estimated value of over $100,000.
Provides nine double bedrooms which serve up to 18 homeless individuals. The Highland Park Methodist Church Pastor operates the shelter and wrote a grant free of charge that awarded the shelter $65,000 for renovating the showers, bathrooms, food pantry and improving the security. Goodwill proudly pays part of the Pastor’s salary.
WAVE provides a three-day a week vocational day program, weekly chorus and monthly socials for adults with developmental disabilities. Goodwill provides WAVE office space free of charge with access to internet, phone lines, printer and other office supplies. Goodwill proudly employs, offers volunteer and work experience for WAVE participants.
“Sew For HOPE” is a community-based non-profit group affiliated with the Big Bend Homeless Coalition in Tallahassee, FL. Together with residents of HOPE, quilts, blankets, stuffed animals, and similar items are made for Tallahassee’s homeless children served by BBHC. HOPE” stands for “Housing Opportunities and Personal Empowerment.” HOPE offers “transitional housing and supportive services” to more than 150 men, women, and children in the Tallahassee/Leon County area. Goodwill proudly offers Sew for Hope and Bags and HOPE a workspace free of charge to do all their sewing.
Welcome Home Vets provides veteran therapists to help soldiers that come home from recent duties with Post Traumatic Syndrome Disorder, PTSD. There are no services offered once a soldier is out of the military and the closest military therapeutic center is in Biloxi, MS. Goodwill proudly offers Welcome Home Vets an office and two meeting spaces for group sessions free of charge.
The Tallahassee-Haiti Medical Team is a team of doctors and volunteers who travel every other month to Dumay, Haiti following the earthquake. THMT also collects beans and rice to help feed the people of the village. Goodwill is a collection site for the community to donate rice, beans, oil, water, crutches, walkers, and other medical supplies. THMT and Goodwill shipped 30,000 lbs of materials to Dumay, Haiti. The clinic we work with focuses on the amputees from the disaster.
America’s Second Harvest bins are at all Goodwill locations collecting food year round. This partnership is for the convenience of our donors, you can clean out your closet and pantry at the same time and make one drop off at your closest Goodwill!
Sustainable Tallahassee is a nonprofit community resource whose mission is to promote environmental stewardship and economic development through education and collaboration.
Goodwill Industries- Big Bend, Inc. is the proud sponsor of the 2011 Forever Family program. Forever Family is a truly unique, non-profit organization that utilizes the power of the media, through television segments and on-air promotions, to create awareness regarding children and teens in foster care. The goal of Forever Family is to find children in foster care adoptive homes, recruitment of foster parents and volunteers, and help for teens ‘aging out’ of the foster care system.
Not having a family is a great barrier to being successful in life. Goodwill believes it is very important to have a strong loving family unit. By supporting Forever Family Goodwill is contributing to its mission and the community.
Tune into WCTV CBS Tallahassee Channel 6 and WJHG NBC Panama City Channel 7 for the Forever Family segments sponsored by Goodwill Industries- Big Bend, Inc.
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Changing lives by inspiring hope, molding character, teaching responsibility, and providing opportunity. Goodwill Industries – Big Bend, Inc. and 50 LARGE started a new technology program for young men in the 50 LARGE program. This collaboration will provide hands-on experience for high school students to refurbish computers and learn front-end computer programs, such as Microsoft Office suite.
