Donate, Shop & Be Green: Celebrate Earth Day with Goodwill

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Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee is offering everyone the opportunity to save money while helping preserve the environment on Earth Day — Saturday, April 22 from 8a-8p.

Goodwill will hold a storewide half-off sale on Earth Day at all of its 34 retail stores. All merchandise, including clothing, linens, toys, books, kitchen wares, decor and other home goods, will be sold for 50 percent off.

Goodwill is a nonprofit, social enterprise that sells donated goods in its stores to change lives through education, training and employment across 48 Tennessee counties. It is also one of the state’s greenest organizations.

Last year, Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee processed more than 40 million donated items for sale in its stores. By selling these items, Goodwill extends their useful life cycle and keeps them from being thrown away. Even donations that cannot be sold provide value for Goodwill’s mission and help preserve the environment. In 2016, Goodwill kept more than 32 million pounds of materials out of landfills through recycling and other efforts. The nonprofit’s recycling of cardboard and paper pulp alone saved more than 53,000 trees from being cut down.

About Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee, Inc.
For nearly 60 years, Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee has provided job training and job placement free of charge to people with disabilities or other barriers to employment through the sale of donated items. In 2016, Goodwill served nearly 44,000 people in Middle and West Tennessee and placed more than 18,000 people into jobs. More information about Goodwill’s Career Solutions, retail stores and donation centers can be obtained online at www.giveit2goodwill.org or by calling 1-800-545-9231.

When you donate to or shop at Goodwill, you help change lives. When you donate to Goodwill, things like clothes, small appliances, furniture, and toys,  help provide jobs and free job training services for 1000’s of Tennessean’s. Once each item sells, the revenue from that sale supports Goodwill’s community-based employment and training programs.  See one of the many Goodwill Success stories below:

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