Our mission is to improve the quality of life for all individuals by providing skills training and helping people find jobs.
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Our program participants are our reason for being. We take pride in finding the best program to help them move toward independence and success.
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By being a part of Goodwill of Central Iowa’s story, you’ve helped make a difference in our state for thousands of your neighbors.
Learn about our successIn the last 10 years, we’ve served 37,000 central Iowans with barriers to employment.
We have helped more than 5,000 find employment since 2007.
In 2017 alone, we kept 22.2 million pounds out of local landfills
Struggling to find gainful employment after college is a familiar story for millennials. Years can be spent at gap-filling jobs that don’t allow you to plan for the future. Add student loans into the mix and the results can be overwhelming. Self-worth can be impacted and the perspective on life darkened. Ben Lewis found himself […]