The Goodwill Industries of Akron Ohio

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 189 work experience, work adjustment, and vocational evaluation clients participated in training or employment experience in The retail area in 2022.

Contract services includes assembly operations and industrial sewing and is certified to iso 9001 2015. 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 . 3 individuals in work experience, vocational evaluation, and work adjustment were provided training or employment experience in 2022 through The contracts division.

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 2022. Workforce development referred 631 participants for placement and placed 492. In total, it served 12,245 individuals, in addition to 492 receiving placement services, 101 received vocational evaluations, assessments, and adjustments; 199 participated in youth programs; 88 participated in work experience; 179 participated in job skill classes, workshops, and job fairs; 7,706 received job search assistance and employer services, including recruitment, screening, testing, training and outplacement; 127 received job coaching services; 3,353 received other services including bus passes, elizabeth clark emergency fund gift cards, and radio reading.