READY TO SPRING CLEAN? GOODWILL IS READY FOR YOU!

Warm weather perfect time to donate!

Cleaning house, organizing closets and helping the environment are all good reasons to donate your gently used housewares and textiles to Goodwill Industries of Northern Illinois this weekend!

Goodwill is ready to accept housewares and textile donations at all of its eleven retail locations in the hopes the warm weather will jump start spring cleaning!

Sales of housewares have been in demand in the community so if you have that extra set of dishes, lamp or toaster that you no longer use consider donating it to Goodwill.

Donations not only help fund Goodwill's local mission programs, they also kept 11 million pounds of goods from ending up in the landfill in 2020.

In addition to being an environmental steward, Goodwill spends 92 cents of every retail dollar supporting local mission programs.

'Our local employment and educational programs such as LifeLaunch, GoodGRADS, and our supported employment programs are sustained by donations,' Ben Bernsten, President of Goodwill Industries of Northern Illinois said.

'Donations are the lifeblood of the Goodwill organization, which leads to retail sales, which fuels the mission programs, which creates jobs for people with barriers in the community. 'One Good Thing Leads to Another' is the new theme for the organization and it all starts with donations,' Bernsten noted.