Goodwill is much more than just retail stores. For more than 80 years, Chattanooga Goodwill Industries has helped people with disabilities and other disadvantages get the training and support they need to find competitive employment in the community.

Since 1923, Goodwill has provided a hand up, not a handout, to people who face a variety of challenges, including mental, physical and emotional disabilities or other disadvantages such as a lack of education or a long absence from the work world. We provide them with job training, medical equipment and other resources
they need to find and keep a job, because people who come to
Goodwill want to be self-sufficient members of the community who
know the sense of independence and self-worth that comes with
earning a paycheck.

Funding for these programs and services comes from the sale of donated
items in Goodwill retail stores; from personal, corporate and state financial contributions; and from contract labor services that Goodwill provides to
businesses and government.

Goodwill is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which means that all
donations are fully tax-deductible as allowed by law. We are a member
agency of Goodwill Industries International and United Way of Greater
Chattanooga, and we are accredited by CARF. Additional facts and
figures are available in our online media kit.