When obstacles such as poverty, lack of education or disabilities keep people
from finding jobs, Goodwill is there to help. We do that by selling your
donations of clothing and household goods in local Goodwill stores and using
the revenue to fund our job-training programs in your community. Last year,
more than 846,000 people benefited from Goodwill's career services - we
helped someone find a job every 57 seconds of every business day.
Delivering effective services to so many people requires a tremendous amount
of communication and collaboration. To facilitate this, Goodwill Industries
International runs an intranet site for Goodwill employees around the world.
Until now, the site was fairly static, offering essentially a repository of
useful documents. But as we sought to grow and enhance our services - with
the ultimate goal of helping 20 million people by the ye... (more)