GOODWILL Making News
Story Behind the Stores: Terry King
Terry King was released from incarceration on January 14. He was headed back to his hometown of Morehead, Ky. But he wasn’t looking forward to it. Terry was afraid. He spent 52 months behind bars after originally receiving a 12-year sentence for a drug-related...
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky, Anthem partner to launch RISE-Pikeville
Louisville, Ky. – Goodwill Industries of Kentucky and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield have announced a partnership to launch Pikeville’s Reintegrating Individuals Successfully Every Day (RISE) program, a job-readiness training program aimed at connecting low-income...
Director of Career Services Martha Stephenson details UPS grant on WHAS11 Great Day Live
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky partnered with 945 employers to help place more than 2,900 individuals into jobs in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the nonprofit to pivot to virtual career services, and despite the reopening of its Centers for Education &...
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky to collaborate on program for young adults with criminal history
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky, in partnership with Goodwill Industries International and by way of the U.S. Department of Labor Young Adult Reentry Partnership Grant, will provide job skills and career training to adults ages 18-24 who were recently involved with...
Goodwill Director of Communications and Public Relations Barnard Baker named to 2021 Leadership Louisville class
Goodwill Director of Communications and Public Relations Barnard Baker has been named to the Leadership Louisville class of 2021, an honor given to 54 of the area’s most established community leaders. This is the 42nd cohort of influential leaders, selected each year...
Goodwill CEO Amy Luttrell featured in Louisville Business First panel of nonprofit executives
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky CEO Amy Luttrell recently joined a panel of nonprofit executives to shed light on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the sector. In Louisville Business First’s Executive Insights: Nonprofits panel, Luttrell discussed the difficult...
Director of Reentry Services Dennis Ritchie details expansion of RISE program in Lexington on WTVQ
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky’s Reintegrating Individuals Successfully Every Day (RISE) program is a paid job-readiness training that paves the way back to employment for individuals with a criminal history. The program features assistance with consumer literacy,...
Director of Reentry Services Dennis Ritchie, Assistant Store Manager Mary Dickenson discuss expungement on WAVE 3 Listens Live!
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky pivoted to offering virtual career services for its program participants in response to the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the reopening of our career services centers to in-person traffic, Goodwill is still...
Goodwill’s renewed mission highlighted by Louisville Courier Journal
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky prides itself on placing individuals into reliable jobs – and those services are needed now more than ever. Between March and June of this year, more than 550,000 Kentuckians filed new claims for unemployment insurance benefits, per...
Story Behind the Stores: Josh Clemmons
Josh Clemmons graduated from Western Kentucky University in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. He promptly took a job within his dream career field upon graduating. His future looked bright. But in his mind, something wasn’t right. He had struggled...
