At Goodwill, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live independently, earn wages and achieve their dreams. We’re committed to helping you achieve your personal and professional goals, whether it’s earning a credential or degree, planning for your next career, polishing your job search and interview skills, getting your finances in order or overcoming a challenge specific to your experience or background.
About Chattanooga Goodwill Industries
Goodwill is much more than just retail stores. For more than 90 years, Chattanooga Goodwill Industries has helped people with disabilities and other disadvantages get the training and support they need to find competitive employment in the community.
Since 1923, we’ve been in the business of empowering people through work and employment. We provide a hand up, not a handout, to people who face a variety of barriers. Challenges might be mental, physical and emotional disabilities or other disadvantages such as a lack of education or a long absence from the working world. We offer them job training and other resources they need to find and keep a job. People who come to Goodwill want to be self-sufficient members of the community. They know the sense of independence and self-worth that comes with earning a paycheck.
Funding for these programs and services comes from the sale of donated items in Goodwill retail stores; from personal, corporate and state financial contributions; and from contract labor services that Goodwill provides to businesses and government.
Goodwill is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which means that all donations are fully tax-deductible as allowed by law. We are a member agency of Goodwill Industries International and United Way of Greater Chattanooga, and we are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).
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Our Values
- Respect: We treat all people with dignity and respect.
- Stewardship: We honor our heritage by being socially, financially and environmentally responsible.
- Ethics: We strive to meet the highest ethical standards
- Learning: We challenge each other to strive for excellence and to continually learn.
- Innovation: We embrace continuous improvement, bold creativity and change.
Our Benefits
Goodwill Industries International employee benefits include:
- Health and Dental Plans
- 403(b) Retirement Plan
- Ten paid holidays
- Two personal days
- Vacation and sick leave
- Monthly Wellness Newsletter
- Onsite Exercise at home campus
- A Tennessee Drug Free Workplace
- Paid Bereavement Leave
- Direct Deposit
- Equal Opportunity Employer