Goodwill to Create Georgia Jobs

Goodwill Industries has purchased a failed shopping mall in Augusta, Georgia, to be converted into a Goodwill Career Campus. The move will create 500 jobs.

The Development Authority of Richmond County has approved a $22.5 million bond financing inducement resolution for the site.

The new facility will include a retail store, also used for training; a jobs office and a bookstore-plus-cafe.

Goodwill Industries International is one of the world’s largest nonprofit providers of education, training, and career services for people with disadvantages, such as welfare dependency, homelessness, and lack of education or work experience, as well as those with physical, mental and emotional disabilities.

Goodwill operates as a network of 184 independent organizations in the US, Canada and 14 other countries.