Read Tracy's Story

The Goodwill “Milestone Award” was created to recognize the hard work of team members who might not be able to participate in the GoodwillWorks program due to a disability or some other significant barrier to self-sufficiency. 

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Read Chris's Story 

The Goodwill Veterans Services Program team serves veterans from many different walks of life. One veteran, Chris, stopped by a while ago to see what the program had to offer. He had served in both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom campaigns.

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Read Tony's Story 

Tony came to Goodwill looking for a new job. He had been at his current job for a little over year and felt like he wasn’t getting anywhere. Tony described feeling undervalued and unappreciated.

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Read George's Story 

George is a Navy veteran who served 15 years as a Gunner’s Mate. He left the service in early 2019 thinking it was time for a new adventure. What George didn’t know was that the world was getting ready to become a very different place.

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Read Maryann's Story 

Maryann grew up in a large, close-knit Italian family in New Jersey. As the youngest of five siblings, she was feisty and tough. Maryann had three brothers and one sister, who was also her best friend. 

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Read Charles Story 

When Charles lost his job due to a DUI, his home went into foreclosure and forced him and his wife to move into a tiny apartment. The stress was hard on their marriage and, eventually, they divorced.

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Read Rebecca's Story

Growing up, Rebecca didn’t have it easy. She was born when her parents were very young, so they did not always have the means to provide luxuries. Then Rebecca moved out of her parents’ house at an early age as she, too, started her family young.

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Read Sue's Story

Sue came to work at Goodwill through a Department of Corrections work release program. She had spent the last six years of her life in prison and was ready to start a new life—not the life she had lived previously.

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Read Anna's Story

Anna lived most of her life in South America. She was happy there when she was a child. In her community, everyone knew each other and were like family. But then she watched in horror as a new government came to power and her beautiful country changed from a thriving nation to one where citizens lived in abject poverty.

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Read Connie's Story 

Connie visited the Selby Goodwill Job Connection office back in 2015. She was seeking employment because of a layoff from her job as a cashier at a grocery store that had gone out of business. Connie was facing many obstacles. She was newly-divorced, raising two kids as a single parent, and had no high school diploma nor any transportation.

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Read Jane's Story 

Jane moved to Florida in February 2020 to help her sister take care of their elderly parents. Her sister begged her for months to move in with her and share expenses. Jane gave up everything that she had worked so hard for and moved to Florida, knowing that she would have to start all over again at the age of 62, but her sister assured her that she would help her adjust and that things would be fine. 

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Read Sandra's Story

Sandra has had a lot of jobs in her lifetime. At age 10, she worked alongside her parents and siblings in Texas, picking fruits and vegetables. Sandra attended school sometimes but most of the time her parents needed her out in the fields to help provide for the family. Sandra says, “Times were very hard and it was all about survival.”

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Read Bill's Story

Bill’s friends were experimenting with drugs and alcohol. Consequently, so was Bill – at age 11. This choice led Bill into trouble with the law a few years later. For the next 25 years, Bill was in and out of jail, racking up many convictions – some of them serious charges.

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Read Roy's Story 

Roy’s mom was in prison from the time he was 5 until he was 14 years old. During that time, he lived with his father, who owned jewelry stores. As he was growing up, Roy worked with his dad and learned some things about jewelry. This was the “silver lining” in their relationship. However, Roy describes his father as abusive and reports that, while he abused everyone in the family, for some reason he was most abusive towards Roy.

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Read Rose's Story

Rose’s parents crossed the border from Mexico into the US and now they were living in the States. Due to their immigration status, they were not able to leave the country to go back and get their young daughter, whom they had left in the care of her elderly grandparents.

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Read Emma's Story

Life was hard in the Philippines with few opportunities to earn money. So much so that Emma decided to move to Singapore to earn the money she needed to help her two sons go to college. It was important to her that they have a better life than she had, and she knew education was the key.

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Read Joe's Story

Joe, a veteran of the U.S. Army, came into the Goodwill Manasota Veterans Services program office looking for a new career. He had been working in the home healthcare industry but business had slowed to a crawl due to COVID-19 and Joe was not getting enough hours each week to pay his bills.

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