about
Each year Goodwill Columbus provides 1.2 million hours of service to its participants with disabilities and other barriers through training, job placement programs and work programs for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Goodwill Columbus offers diverse programming that recognizes and upholds its mission. Programs range from specialized rehabilitation programs to career services and commercial operations. Specialized habilitation programs reinforce the organization’s commitment to ensuring all individuals with disabilities and other barriers are embraced as valued and dignified members of our community.
Goodwill Columbus is a member of Goodwill Industries International, an association of 181 independent member organizations located throughout the United States and Canada. For more information on Goodwill Industries International, visit www.goodwill.org.
Mission & Vision
Our Mission
Building independence, quality of life and work opportunities for individuals with disabilities and other barriers.
Our Vision
All individuals with disabilities and other barriers are embraced as valued and dignified members of our community.
Goodwill Industries International
Goodwill Industries was founded in 1902 by Reverend Edgar James Helms, a Methodist minister in Boston, who was seeking ways to help residents in the city's impoverished South End. Helms collected used clothing and household goods in wealthier areas of the city, and then trained and hired poor people and immigrants to repair the used goods. The donations were resold or given to the people who repaired them. The system worked, and the Goodwill philosophy of "a hand up, not a hand out" was born.
The organization was formally incorporated in 1910, providing job skills training programs, and even a rudimentary placement service for people who were unemployed.
Today, Goodwill Industries International has 181 autonomous member organizations in the U.S. and Canada, and 45 associate members in 34 countries outside of North America.
Board of Directors & Senior Leadership Team
- Officers
- Chairman
- Fred G. Pressley, Jr.
- First Vice Chair
- Donna Teach
- Second Vice Chair
- Mary Lynn Foster
- Treasurer
- Lauren Richardson
- Secretary
- Jim Dutey
- Non-Officer Executive Members
- Lori A. Maite
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Directors - Jane Abell
- Shelley Bird
- David Braun
- Christi Cabungcal
- Ann Christopher
- John Cooley
- Jamie Crane
- Beth Dorsey
- Thomas Hess
- Alton Hill
- Anthony Hines
- John Kadlic
- Jessica Miller
- Jean Reynolds
- David Wright
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Senior Leadership Team - President & CEO
- Margie Pizzuti
- Vice President of Finance
- Michael Goldbeck
- Vice President of Donated Goods Retail Operations
- Tim Salvato
- Vice President of Marketing & Development
- Beth Kowalski
- Vice President of Mission Services
- Mary Vail
