Goodwill sells free goods at a profit, but less than one eighth of that profit actually goes to the job-related programs they market as their primary pillar of charity work.
Goodwill Omaha CEO Frank McGree was fired in 2016 after a World-Herald investigation revealed that he received between $400,000 and $930,000 annually, while more than 100 workers at his stores made less than minimum wage. (Paying employees pennies per hour, by the way, is perfectly legal thanks to a loophole in the Fair Labor Standards Act—something we’ll come back to shortly.) Likewise, a 2013 Watchdog report found that the married couple in charge of Goodwill Industries of Eastern North Carolina, Dennis and Linda McLain, received close to $800,000 annually while employing workers with disabilities who were paid less than minimum wage. And what about the president and CEO of Goodwill Industries International, whose name is not Mark Curran, but Jim Gibbons—is he a billionaire, as one of our readers alleged? While there’s no easy way to confirm Gibbons’s exact net worth, the organization does report his annual salary. Based on those reports, Gibbons has earned more than $700,000 a year since taking the job in 2008. Disregarding what he paid in taxes with that income, and any assets he had before reaching this paygrade, $700,000 times 10 is $7 million. It would take more than 100 times that amount to reach billionaire status (reminder: one billion = 1,000 million), making it extremely unlikely that Gibbons is a billionaire.
82 cents of every dollar donated to The Salvation Army goes toward program services. The average charity spends 75 percent of their budget on programs, while the remaining money goes to cover overhead costs like fundraising, Sandra Miniutti, with Charity Navigator, told NBC News.
看来以后要多支持Salvation Army， goodwill 不好啊 ***********
https://medium.com/@aliceminium/the-dark-reality-behind-americas-greatest-thrift-store-empire-183967087a1e
https://www.countryliving.com/shopping/a18198848/is-goodwill-a-nonprofit/#:~:text=Founded%20in%201902%2C%20Goodwill%20Industries,challenged%20in%20finding%20traditional%20employment.
Goodwill sells free goods at a profit, but less than one eighth of that profit actually goes to the job-related programs they market as their primary pillar of charity work.
Goodwill Omaha CEO Frank McGree was fired in 2016 after a World-Herald investigation revealed that he received between $400,000 and $930,000 annually, while more than 100 workers at his stores made less than minimum wage. (Paying employees pennies per hour, by the way, is perfectly legal thanks to a loophole in the Fair Labor Standards Act—something we’ll come back to shortly.) Likewise, a 2013 Watchdog report found that the married couple in charge of Goodwill Industries of Eastern North Carolina, Dennis and Linda McLain, received close to $800,000 annually while employing workers with disabilities who were paid less than minimum wage. And what about the president and CEO of Goodwill Industries International, whose name is not Mark Curran, but Jim Gibbons—is he a billionaire, as one of our readers alleged? While there’s no easy way to confirm Gibbons’s exact net worth, the organization does report his annual salary. Based on those reports, Gibbons has earned more than $700,000 a year since taking the job in 2008. Disregarding what he paid in taxes with that income, and any assets he had before reaching this paygrade, $700,000 times 10 is $7 million. It would take more than 100 times that amount to reach billionaire status (reminder: one billion = 1,000 million), making it extremely unlikely that Gibbons is a billionaire.
Goodwill 蛮好的呀。 我家的旧物都捐给他家了。 一年到头，旧衣物， 家电， 玩具， 家具，厨具， 估计至少去5，6次吧。