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Goodwill's Youth Programs Promote Leadership: Put Your Clothes To Work
Goodwill's Youth Programs Promote Leadership: Put Your Clothes To Work
This past summer, Bella was a Youth Leader at Fresh Air Camp. She is a mentee and a mentor in GoodGuides, Goodwills youth mentoring program, and she will be a Peer Leader this fall at Goodwills BNY Mellon After-School Academy for Girls. Bella loves all these Goodwill programs because each one offers something a little different. What holds everything together for her are the relationships and friendships she forms along the way.
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Job training graduate Treena Hogan, Goodwill President Joanne Hilferty, Channel 7 reporter Janet Wu, McGladrey Managing Director Nancy Aubrey, and Castle Group Principal Sandy Lish at the Put Your Clothes to Work reception in May.
Goodwill as an organization is about transformations, said Joanne Hilferty, president of Goodwill. We help people transform their lives and achieve independence and dignity through work. For that first impression, for that first interview, how you look can make such a difference. This year, the Put Your Clothes to Work drive collected more than seven tons of interview appropriate clothing. In addition to McGladrey, other sponsors included Bingham, The Castle Group, and TJX Companies. If your organization or business would like to participate in the Put Your Clothes to Work drive, please contact Goodwill at 617-541-1259 or by email at info@goodwillmass.org. G
Thank you!
thank you
Every day Goodwill helps people facing barriers to achieve lives of independence and dignity through work. That is why Celebrating Everyday Independence was the perfect theme for The Good Party, held on June 15 at Goodwills headquarters. More than 300 guests attended as Goodwill presented Victoria Reggie Kennedy with its first ever Independence Award in appreciation for all her husband, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, did to assist people with disabilities. Guests also heard from Donald Deas, a Dorchester resident whose education and training at Goodwill helped him to secure a job at Stop & Shop. The gala celebrates the achievements of participants in job training, career services, and youth programs at Goodwill.
Left to right: John Henry and Linda Pizzuti Henry; Clayton Turnbull and Mary Kakas; Paul and Ashley Bernon; Steve Pogorzelski, Joanne Hilferty, Jim Gibbons, Victoria Reggie Kennedy
event committee
Honorary Chairs
Governor Deval Patrick Mayor Thomas M. Menino Karen Holmes Ward WCVB-TV, Good Party Emcee
Co-Chairs
Ashley Bernon Paul Bernon Rubicon Real Estate, LLC Richard Caturano McGladrey Peter Morrissey Morrissey & Company Steven Pogorzelski ClickFuel.com Jay McCarthy Kathy Melley Oz Mondejar Keith Motley Reginald Nunnally Colette Phillips Mary Reed Kevin Reynolds James Rooney Candace Simourian John Simourian Kirk Sykes Linda Thompson Ellen Wilson
Honored Guest
Victoria Reggie Kennedy Alison Arnett Nancy Aubrey Maria Battaglia Kay Bernon Bishop John Borders Kevin Bottomley Theresa Bresten Jeffrey Casler Edward Cassidy Eugene Colangelo Sam Cron Edward Davis Jovita Fontanez Wanda Geer Marvin Gilmore Robert Gittens George (Chip) Greenidge Jr. Joanne Hilferty Carol Ishkanian Mary Kakas Herbert Lemelman Lois Lemelman Vivien Li Stephanie Lovell Allen Maltz Fran Maltz Michael Manoogian
Development C O R N E R
Goodwill Welcomes 2,500 Donors to New Donor Recognition Society
The Helms Society, Goodwills new donor recognition program, is named after Goodwills founder, Edgar J. Helms. His vision of helping those in need find independence and dignity through work lives on today. Through the Helms Society, Goodwill more fully acknowledges the major impact that friends and donors make through their annual donations. Members of the new society will receive recognition in the annual Goodwill honor roll of donors, and will receive other benefits as well.
Presidents Circle $10,000 Sponsor Benefactor Partner Patron Associate Friend $5,000 to $9,999 $2,500 to $4,999 $1,000 to $2,499 $500 to $999 $250 to $499 $100 to $249
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Shane Jackson is a tremendous employee at Boston Career Link. Job seekers are often discouraged when they come here, but Shane helps put them at ease and gets them off to a good start in their job search, said Paul MacNeil, the director of Boston Career Link and vice president of work programs at Goodwill. Also, Rafaelina Lina Ramirez, who works as a Boston Career Link advisor, won Goodwills 2011 Emil Hartl Presidents Award in recognition of her outstanding performance. Lina has worked at Boston Career Link as a career advisor for five years. Last year, the state rolled out a new program called Reemployment Services, which requires mandatory visits for unemployed individuals to attend a career center. Ramirez was asked to get the program running in less than two months.
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Neil Sullivan, executive director of the Boston Private Industry Council, Shane Jackson, customer services representative at Boston Career Link, and Joanne Hilferty, president of Goodwill.
Goodwills mission is to provide exemplary job training and related services to help individuals with disabilities and other barriers to selfsufficiency to achieve independence and dignity through work. Not charity, but a chance.
Joanne K. Hilferty President & CEO Joy S. Burghardt Vice President, Programs & Services Carol S. Cardozo Vice President, Finance & CFO Terrence M. Fitzpatrick Vice President, Retail Enterprise Paul MacNeil Vice President, Work Programs; Director of Boston Career Link Mary G. Rahal Vice President, Human Resources & Administration Joyce Gallagher Sullivan Vice President, Marketing & Development James Harder Director of Communications Editor, GoodwillOutlook Photo Credits Zev Fisher Mike Ritter Design Studio A Design
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