Donations

Donations

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Donations

Goodwill depends on the donation of clothing and household goods to fulfill its mission of helping people with barriers to self-sufficiency to achieve independence and dignity through work. Each year, Goodwill collects 22 million pounds of donations at its donation centers, retail stores, and at ZOOTS dry cleaners in eastern and central Massachusetts.



Your tax deductible donations of goods do much good.  When they arrive at Goodwill, they:

  • Are handled, sorted, packaged, shipped and sold by a team that includes job trainees with disabilities and other barriers to self-sufficiency who earn a paycheck while being trained for competitive jobs in the marketplace.
  • Generate revenue that supports Goodwill's many job training, youth, and community programs, serving thousands of people in eastern and central Massachusetts.
  • Provide low-cost, quality clothing and merchandise that allows people in the community to stretch their dollars.
  • Give Boston-area job training graduates interview appropriate clothing free of charge through Goodwill's Clothing Collaborative for Job Trainees.
  • Are also distributed to dozens of other community-based organizations, such as Pine Street Inn, the region's largest provider of services to homeless individuals, to help them achieve their missions.

Whether it is an individual living with a developmental disability who receives on-the-job-training sorting, pin-tagging and hanging your donated clothing; a single parent able to support her family through her job in one of the Goodwill Stores, or the 16 year-old girl growing up in a family of limited means who is able to find her "dream prom dress" at one of The Goodwill Stores – when you donate goods to Goodwill you help to make a very big difference in people's lives.

Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization. Our federal tax ID number is 04-2106765.

Did you know?

Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries was founded in 1895 in Boston’s South End to provide residents with jobs and to furnish the community with low-cost goods. It was the first in what is now a worldwide network of 175 independent affiliates.

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Antonio Stroud - I Will Aspire

“It was very spontaneous,” Antonio Stroud said. He was on the train when he learned his friend was going to a program at Goodwill where they give you a mentor and help you with your homework.

From that spontaneous moment when he declared, “All right, I’m coming with you,” Antonio has been coming to Goodwill regularly to meet with his mentor through Goodwill’s youth mentoring program. The program that began in 2010 matches young people, ages 12 to 17, with a role model to provide friendship, support and guidance to help ensure they will reach their potential.

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