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  • January 18, 2024

    Creating Your Personal Style at Goodwill

    Finding Your Style! Meet Haley. She is one of our Recruiters at Goodwill of Central Iowa. And she looooves to thrift! This entire outfit is thrifted from our local Goodwill...

  • April 28, 2015

    New Project SEARCH participants chosen

    Four Project SEARCH interns are training at the East Euclid store. From left are Michele Keenan,...

  • April 22, 2015

    Goodwill is featured this week on KCWI

    Local TV personality Suzet Nelson will be the featured guest Friday, April 24, on the Great...

  • April 1, 2015

    Goodwill can help veteran professionals with their job search

    Featured this month on our 2015 calendar is Randy Baker of Newton. After a job layoff,...

  • March 30, 2015

    Goodwill highest ranked brand in new national survey

    Something new to celebrate: We learned that Goodwill was named the Disability Nonprofit Brand of the...

  • March 25, 2015

    Paying tribute to some of our best clients and employees

    What an evening! On March 24, we honored some of the employees and clients who helped...

  • March 11, 2015

    We’re stuffing the truck this week!

    Volunteers Melissa Douglas and James Tegtmeier, employees from Voya Financial, gave out coupons during a Stuff...

  • February 27, 2015

    Goodwill offers job training and renewed hope to a refugee

    (Our former client, Gastonie Kitwa Lunda, is featured in March on our 2015 calendar, on sale...

  • February 24, 2015

    We’re helping to find untapped potential

    Goodwill is all about untapped potential. So, we were delighted to be a sponsor and organizer...

  • February 23, 2015

    Iowa Food Bank Reaches out at Goodwill

    The Iowa Food Bank Association continues to help more people who need food assistance.Representatives from the...

  • February 16, 2015

    Feb. 13 was ‘Night to Shine” for Goodwill clients

         On Feb. 13, Goodwill of Central Iowa joined Prairie Ridge Church in Ankeny to present...