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This Is Goodwill Industries of America, Inc.
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"The National Rehabilitation Association has long recognized the important place that the sheltered workshop can play in the total program of vocational rehabilitation. In this program of sheltered employment Goodwill Industries of America are making an increasingly valuable contribution. Of particular interest to us, has been the fact that local Goodwill Industries are increasingly conscious of the rehabilitation aspects of their workshop programs. In practically all instances, we find excellent cooperation between the Goodwill Industries and the state vocational rehabilitation agencies. This is resulting in many additional opportunities for employment for severely handicapped people. NRA recognizes Goodwill Industries as a valuable partner in the rehabilitation effort. | |
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"Goodwill Industries is an organization which lives up to its name. Through Goodwill Industries, thousands of persons have been enabled to change adversity to advantage. It is my sincere hope that the organization will continue to grow and expand its wonderful program of helping the handicapped." | |
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"I have several reasons to commend the program of Goodwill Industries. First, I know what it means to have a physical disability. I also know what an excellent function Goodwill Industries are fulfilling throughout the country. Through their work in Goodwill Industries, handicapped persons are attracting the attention of many employers who would otherwise overlook this great reserve of willing, enthusiastic and talented people." | |
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"Through provision of vocational training and related services, Goodwill Industries make a substantial contribution to the high percentage of our nation's disabled who can be rehabilitated back into competitive employment through dynamic physical and vocational rehabilitation procedures. There are many persons for whom the severity of disability or age precludes a return to competitive employment who are finding not only wages but dignity which comes only from productivity in their employment at Goodwill Industries. Nor should be overlooked the very great social contribution which Goodwill Industries makes through its sales of usable clothing and furniture to persons of low income." | |
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"Congratulations to our colleagues in Goodwill Industries all over the country. In the past two years your strides forward have given a tremendous lift to both the spirit and the work of the expanding program of vocational rehabilitation not only here in the United States, but in other countries, too. You are helping to bring to full fruition the cooperative effort of the public and private agencies, especially as they draw together the people of our local communities. That the Federal Office of Vocational Rehabilitation has been able to share in the progress of 40 Goodwill Industries is a great satisfaction to me." | |
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"It has been an inspiration for me to know of the truly great work of the Goodwill Industries in aiding handicapped people in finding their place in the economic and social life of their communities. Many labor union leaders across the country serve on the Boards of the Goodwill Industries. We, of labor, realize the need and recognize two spiritual values offered the handicapped people by the Goodwill Industries. One is the opportunity for the handicapped to help themselves find a useful service to society. The other is for the rest of us, by our caring to give the necessary materials and instructors to aid the handicapped in having the opportunity." | |
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It is always a pleasure for a healthy community to record progress in terms of savings and employment, construction volume and home ownership, products and services. The truer measure of progress, however, is in such growth as Dayton's Goodwill Industries . . . This is not a criterion for judging prosperity or bigness, but for judging social maturity, the value placed on the individual in society, the public morality, the interrelationship of human responsibility, for judging, in the simplest words, "good will among men." | |
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An active example of what can be done by the handicapped is provided by Goodwill Industries, an agency operating in 118 cities in the nation. | |
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One of Dallas' most useful welfare agencies, Goodwill Industries, reconditions half a million dollars' worth of cast-off articles a year and puts them to use ... More important, it gives work to 281 persons, most of them handicapped men and women who otherwise would have to have public support . . . Those who have looked into the operation of Goodwill Industries know that it is doing a vast amount of good in Dallas. | |
