Goodwill Industries of Central North Carolina, Inc.

Another Great Goodwill Takeover! Last month, our Jamestown store employees went out for a well-deserved team lunch while members from our Triad Goodwill home office "took over" and ran the store for a bit. Thanks to everyone who participated and to our Jamestown store team! psst...you never know where they'll take over next 🤔

We're #hiring! We're looking for a Digital Navigator to lead services provided through our NEW mobile unit next year as part of our Learning & Development team. You'll need top notch digital skills, to teach said digital skills as well as job readiness topics, and to confidently drive a giant bus all around our 5-county territory (no CDL required). In addition to computer literacy, critical requirements include an impeccable driving record, the ability to thrive working independently/alone, and excellent customer service skills. If you know someone who would be incredible for this role, please share this with them! #jobalert #hiringnow #nonprofit https://lnkd.in/gbpHSQd9

⭐ Congratulations, Star Performer! ⭐ Melanie, our HRIS Manager, is Star Performer of the Quarter!!! Melanie looks beyond the numbers to ensure it makes sense, and is always thinking about the experience others will have in our Human Resources Information System and processes. She is especially good at keeping everyone informed and is the glue that holds our project data together. Congratulations, Melanie!! Thank you for going above and beyond at Goodwill! #missionmoment #starperformer #triadgoodwill

⭐ Congratulations, Star Performer! ⭐ Crystal, our QA & Data Specialist, is Star Performer of the Quarter!!! Crystal is responsible for data management and data integrity for our Career Development Services. Her passion and excitement for this work is so big and so obvious, you would think her job was eating ice cream every day (certainly not DATA)! She loves to share her ideas about how to improve our systems and to connect that to how those efforts will improve our ability to provide mission services. She is an outstanding collaborator who seeks out solutions for the whole team. Congratulations, Crystal!! Thank you for going above and beyond at Goodwill! #missionmoment #starperformer #triadgoodwill

Getting a job wasn’t the main challenge Dantae faced upon being released from prison – it was finding the right job. After 16 years of incarceration, and no past work experience, he found himself with limited options for jobs that weren’t the right fit. He worked at two restaurants but struggled to connect and communicate with his managers and coworkers. “I don’t know if I’ve always been like this, but I might have. But the person prison made me, people can’t talk to me a certain way. I don’t see authority – we breathe the same air, made of the same blood, so I’m going to talk to everybody the same way.” Read his Success Story: https://lnkd.in/duhnGsCm

🎉 Join us in celebrating our fall Careers On The Outside graduates! 🎉 🎓 The Careers On The Outside program is designed specifically for individuals with justice involvement to assist with reentering the workforce. Training opportunities incorporate strengths assessments, soft and concrete workplace skills, cognitive behavioral principles, job search best practices, placement assistance, and supportive services that lead to successful competitive employment. 🎓At the end of each Careers On The Outside class, we hold a graduation ceremony and a networking hiring event with second chance employers at our home office. #secondchancehiring #reentrymatters #careersontheoutside #missionmoment

Access to affordable healthcare is crucial for long term career stability. Thank you to the NC Navigator Consortium program through Legal Aid of North Carolina for letting us host a successful Medicaid Expansion & Open Enrollment event 👏 Navigators Nancy Baron and Diana Soto met with nine individuals to assist with Medicaid/Marketplace enrollments and shared about their services with the dozens of individuals who visited our Career Center that day. They are going to be offering ongoing assistance through open enrollment season at Triad Adult & Pediatric Medicine, Inc. every Monday and Thursday from 9am-12pm at 📍1002 S Eugene St, Greensboro, NC.

Lionheart Academy of the Triad, thank you for coming to take a community tour of our home office in Greensboro last month! We hope you had fun learning about our career development services, sustainability initiatives and community impact 💙 #missionmonday

Look who we ran into! Steven Preston, CEO of Goodwill Industries International, at our Mid-Atlantic Goodwill Industries Coalition (MAGIC) Conference in Louisville, Kentucky 🪄 Thank you to Goodwill Industries of Kentucky for hosting this year and congratulations on your brand new West Louisville Opportunity Center, which will serve as a one-stop shop for residents to access a complement of resources to help enhance their lives.

Celebrating generosity and a shared commitment to creating pathways of opportunity for all in our community this morning with United Way of Greater Greensboro at their Campaign Kickoff! 🎉 Resilient and dedicated participants in Goodwill Industries of Central North Carolina, Inc.'s reentry program, Careers on the Outside, are a portion of the 581 community members who have left poverty this year! UW funding bolsters the supports we can provide through this program and has directly contributed to our mission of improving lives and enriching communities through the power of work. 💙 If you want to learn more about COTO, or hiring individuals with justice involvement, comment or zip me a message. ✨