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Goodwill By the Numbers
6947 individuals
received services from Goodwill Industries of
Greater Detroit
1090 job
placements were facilitated as a result of Goodwill
Services
$12.37 was the
average hourly wage of the job placements
Through Goodwill's Industrial Services Parts &
Packaging Center, 538
individuals gained transitional work
experience and earned
$527,524 in wages.
Goodwill has over 280
employees at 10
sites.
Goodwill serves 5
counties: Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, and
Washtenaw.
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Goodwill
Industries of Greater Detroit provides people who have
disabilities and other barriers to employment with
opportunities to become independent, self-supporting
citizens through training, work experience and employment in
the community.
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In the late 1890's, Methodist minister Edgar J. Helms
was seeking innovative ways to help the jobless,
immigrant population in Boston. He began collecting
unwanted household items and hired the jobless to repair
and refurbish the items. Income from the resold items
paid the workers' wages. The system worked and the
Goodwill method of self-help was born. Goodwill
Industries was formally incorporated in 1902 with job
skills training programs and even rudimentary job
placement services.
April of 1921 brought the establishment of Goodwill
Industries of Greater Detroit and the League for the
Handicapped. A merger of the two organizations took
place in 1970 and paved the way for a more efficient and
comprehensive system of delivering services.
Since 1976, Goodwill
Industries of Greater Detroit's headquarters has been
located at 3111 Grand River Avenue, next to MotorCity
Casino. The newly renovated Detroit Career Center is
based within the headquarters and provides a variety of
employment, training and placement services. The largest
of our two industrial work centers is also housed within
headquarters. Goodwill trainees obtain "real world" work
experience in the center by completing packaging and
assembly work for DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company
and General Motors Corporation, as well as other
industrial contracts.
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