Southern Oregon Goodwill Industries

sogoodwill.org

Goodwill is all about people working. We are North America’s leading nonprofit provider of education, training, and career services for people with disadvantages, such as welfare dependency, homelessness, and lack of education or work experience, as well as those with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. Southern Oregon Goodwill Industries is headquartered in Medford with retail stores and mission services offices in Klamath, Josephine, Jackson, Douglas, Lake, and Siskiyou counties. We employ over 300 people working in mission services, administration, in 8 retail stores, 3 outlets, a boutique, e-commerce auction website, and in 12 donation sites. We are part of a national network of over 2,100 stores and mission services locations. In 2016, 86 cents of every one dollar from Goodwill stores provided funding for our employment and training services to more than 3,000 individuals in Southern Oregon. The generous donations from the communities we serve provide funding for our programs. Our donors are a vital first step in our cycle to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Founded in Boston in 1902 by Rev. Edgar J. Helms, a Methodist minister, Goodwill Industries first put people to work by hiring them to repair and sell donated goods. Today, Goodwill Industries trains people for careers in fields such as financial services, computer programming, skilled labor, and health care. For more information on store or donation locations, visit www.sogoodwill.org or call (541) 772-3300.