How Has Car Donation Helped Goodwill®?

There are many organizations and charities that work with car donation to fund the important services they bring to their communities. Goodwill® first began accepting auto donations as a way of helping the people who could no longer afford their gas guzzling vehicles during the nation’s second oil embargo. What began as a helping hand for the community became a reliable means of funding for the many services that Goodwill® offers the disabled and disadvantaged community. Goodwill® is comprised of 183 independent community-based organizations throughout the United States, Canada and abroad. True to its mission of helping the disadvantaged find work, Goodwill® continues to be a leader in job training, employment and career services. Vehicle donation enables Goodwill® to continue to meet the needs of every person that walks in their doors. Every forty-two seconds of every business day someone finds a job thanks to Goodwill®, and your car donation helps them make it happen. When you donate a car to Goodwill® your auto donation helps strengthen communities and families with training that leads people to become independent, tax paying members of society.

How has car donation helped Goodwill®? In 2008, one point five million people benefited from Goodwill’s® career services. Every forty-two seconds someone walks through the doors of Goodwill® and in 2008 that added up to more than one hundred seventy-two thousand people being placed in jobs. With so many people in need of employment, especially during tough economic times, your car donation helps keep funding Goodwill’s® vital training and job placement services. If you are interested in helping a good cause but curious as to how much of your donation goes to the actual cause, Goodwill® is proud to say that eighty-four percent of donations go directly to their programs. So when you donate a car to Goodwill®, the money generated from your vehicle donation goes directly to the people who need it most. With more than twenty-three hundred Goodwill® stores, car donation ensures that many of the people Goodwill® trains will find employment within the heart of Goodwill®. At a time when funds are short and demands are high, car donation continues to help Goodwill® do what they do best - provide the training people need to get the job that helps them gain independence.