#ShareTheGood with Goodwill Industries Week

I’m taking a break from outfits and Ask Allie advice posts for a little PSA. This week is Goodwill Industries Week; not only that this year Goodwill of Greater Washington is celebrating its 80th anniversary serving the DC area community. For those who have been reading Wardrobe Oxygen for a while you know Goodwill is one of my favorite charitable organizations. While you can donate that which has outgrown your home, wardrobe, or life to them; while you can head to Goodwill for some amazing deals (one person’s castoff is another’s treasure), but I love that Goodwill helps people find jobs. And not just any people – people who live in our community, people whose kids go to our schools, people sitting next to us on the Metro or standing in line behind us at the grocery store.

Goodwill of Greater Washington’s primary mission is to provide free job training and employment services to people with disadvantages and disabilities. Their goal is to give the populations they serve the tools they need to become self-sufficient. In 2014, Goodwill directly affected the lives of more than 3,000 of our neighbors while diverting over 25 million pounds of material from local landfills through their donation program. In addition to training and placing people into jobs, providing consumers with access to quality, low cost goods, and acting as one our region’s largest recyclers, Goodwill is also a job developer. With each new store and donation center that Goodwill opens, 25-30 new jobs are created.

If you could walk in someone else's shoes for just one day would you help them?

If you’d like to learn more about Goodwill of Greater Washington, find their nearest store or donation center, or get involved, please visit dcgoodwill.org or download their free mobile app from the iTunes app store.