WE CHANGE LIVES

Material donors, retail store shoppers, financial supporters and event sponsors: Thank you for investing in Goodwill and our mission of "Creating Hope, Jobs and Futures." All of our numbers reflected below are possible by motivated clients, skilled staff, focused board members and YOU!

Growing X 3 began in October 2009 when we introduced three new programs here at Goodwill - our collaboration with Heartly House to provide employment training for their clients; the second through our new "Good Guides"(TM) mentoring program for at-risk youth in our two-county area; and the third is our concerted effort toward outreach and enrollment of individuals and families through the MD S.N.A.P. (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) food stamp program.

40th Anniversary "Wrap" took place at Carrabbas' Italian Grille in Frederick where we honored the founding leaders of our organization while also realizing that our work is never done! Expressions of gratitude were shared with founder W. Jerome Offutt and Harvey Kettering, the Baltimore Goodwill CEO at the time of our own organization's incorporation. Our anniversary celebration during 2009 was an overwhelming success as shown by 195 media hits and 10 events during the year.

The visionary leaders of our Goodwill are its board members; at our recent November meeting, we thanked four leaders for their years of service to our nonprofit - Tom McCanner, Daryl Routzahn, Dave Magoon and Sam Jones each helped us grow from serving 300 individuals per year to now serving nearly 3000. I am also pleased to welcome Jackie Kanekuni and Laura Easto to the Goodwill board and look forward to their leadership.

We all make a difference! We served over 2800 people through computer training, job skills development, job coaching, emergency certificates and volunteer placement. We placed nearly 100 clients in jobs in our communities. Our retail stores received donations from over 122,000 donors and served nearly 3,100,000 customers. We are truly changing lives.

In honor of his leadership through the founding of our Goodwill, we have established the W. Jerome Offutt Goodwill Fund at the Community Foundation of Frederick County. Designed to support the training needs of clients served by our nonprofit, contributions may be made by contacting either the Community Foundation or me.

Style Show Becomes "Model" of Success - Our first ever style show, in collaboration with The Temple/Paul Mitchell Partner School, was a resounding success - admission was $10 per person or a bag of material donations and $5. We extend our appreciation to the folks at The Temple for this effort, which also included the awarding of a full scholarship to one of our Goodwill clients. Thanks to their staff and students for their work on this project!

We believe in "The Power of Work! Thank you for embracing this ideal with us.

Dan Kurtenbach, President/CEO.