Pilot program focuses on North Tacoma neighborhood TACOMA – About 1,000 homes in North Tacoma will find Goodwill donation bags at their front doors this week as the agency looks for summertime donations – a first time campaign – helping people, especially young adults, receive job training and placement services. The program will take place [...]
Young adults ages 16-21 can earn up to $1,000 for the summer working part-time in a six-week program providing work experience and teaching communications and teambuilding skills. Applications for the STEPS program must be turned in by 4:30 p.m. July 5 at the REACH Center, 714 S. 27th St., Tacoma. For information, contact Maria Peterson, [...]
New Gig Harbor Goodwill Store on record-setting pace GIG HARBOR (UPDATED JUNE 24) – A new Gig Harbor Goodwill store that opened yesterday represented “optimism and opportunity” for the community and great prices for shoppers, who set a record for the agency. “What Goodwill is really about is providing opportunity,” said State Sen. Derek Kilmer, [...]
Super values, great prices and thousands of new items daily GIG HARBOR – Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula residents will shop and donate at a new Gig Harbor Goodwill Store when it opens June 23 in the Olympic Village Shopping Center, 5500 Olympic Drive N.W., across from the Fred Meyer store. A grand opening ceremony [...]
Michael Bulling, the 2011 Kenneth Shaw Graduate of the Year for Goodwill Industries International, advocated for people with disabilities during a June 13 Pierce Transit hearing on the cutback of services. Bulling, 34, of Lakewood, has cerebral palsy and works as a custodian at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for Capitol Building Maintenance. He received the Tacoma [...]
Michael Bulling, a Tacoma Goodwill program graduate, receives standing ovation from Port of Seattle commissioners for receiving national Goodwill award. SEA-TAC – Port of Seattle commissioners with audience members yesterday gave a standing ovation to a Sea-Tac janitor who received a national Goodwill award. Michael Bulling was selected earlier this month as the 2011 Kenneth [...]
Store ‘won’t go dark’ before grand opening at new location GIG HARBOR – Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula residents will be able to shop and donate at the Gig Harbor Goodwill Store even as it prepares for a move to a new location. The store was expected to close later this month and await a [...]
The Tacoma Goodwill 2010 Graduate of the Year and 2011 Goodwill Industries International Kenneth Shaw Graduate of the Year Michael Bulling was featured on the May 5 show “CityLine,” a TV Tacoma show. You can see it online by going here and clicking on the May 5 show – Michael’s segment is the first one [...]
