{"content":[{"text":"Get to Know Goodwill-Easter Seals \n Eliminating barriers to work and independence for 100 years \n Nonprofit Serving Our Community A Greener Minnesota \n • Goodwill-Easter Seals is one of Minnesota’s • Minnesotans generate over 3 million tons \n longest operating 501(c)(3) nonprofits, of waste for landfills every year. \n founded in 1919 to help people experience \n • \n power of work. Our “donate-shop-reuse-educate-employ” \n the \n model diverts over 65 million pounds from \n • The average unemployment duration in the landfills annually, the equivalent to 150 blue \n U.S. is over 25 weeks and the unemployment whales (the heaviest animal on Earth)! \n rate is 60% higher for people with disabilities. \n The poverty rate for families of color is up to • In 2019, our stores handled over 2.5 million \n donations, using proceeds to fund our \n triple the rate of white families. Our 1-1 \n services. \n employment services help narrow these gaps. \n Leading by Example \n Donate. Shop. Support Our Mission. \n • Your aunt’s Facebook feed is great, but her \n • Donating and shopping at our stores helps \n facts on Goodwill might only be so-so. We \n us connect four people with jobs every day. \n have nine 4-star ratings from Charity \n Navigator and meet all Charities Review \n • “Why do you sell things that you get for free?” \n Council standards. \n Donations stock stores to support our mission, \n but there are many costs to get that lamp from \n • CEO Michael Wirth-Davis, DPA has led \n your trunk onto a shelf. \n the organization for 29 years. He teaches \n and volunteers his time speaking to various \n • We employ over 2,000 people and everyone \n groups (he \n earns more than the MN minimum wage. doesn’t have a yacht or get paid \n millions of dollars). \n • We serve people in 73 of Minnesota’s 87 \n counties. Visit gesmn.org/facts","bbox":{"left":0.030784,"top":0.307284,"width":0.9246089999999999,"height":0.62045}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.029167,"top":0.014773,"width":0.938873,"height":0.288447}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.029167,"top":0.014773,"width":0.938873,"height":0.288447}]}