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At this Goodwill, the first thing worth keeping is a job
In South Central California, donated goods pay for paid work. Behind the thrift-store racks is a hiring model whose most revealing measure is what happens after someone gets the job.
Cordance Is Collecting the Software Nobody Notices - Until It Stops Working
The Raleigh software group is assembling a portfolio of niche B2B tools for warehouses, campuses, laboratories and thrift stores - then betting that patient ownership and shared operating muscle can make small specialists stronger.
Scott Sundheim’s Long Route From Pop-Tarts World to the Digital Pawn Shop
A marketer trained on cereal-aisle brands and coupon clicks is now helping a 20th-century retail format meet the online shopper - one local inventory feed, loyalty member and customer promise at a time.
The Thrift Store Is the Front Door. The Real Product Is Work.
Goodwill Southern California runs a circular machine with two outputs: second chances for donated goods and practical routes into employment. The familiar blue bins and thrift racks are only the public-facing half of the system.
The Strange, Useful Machine Behind a $200 Pawn Loan
EZCORP has built a continent-spanning business around a simple exchange: bring in something valuable, leave with cash. The same counter also feeds a secondhand retail network - one object, two businesses, and a revealing view of the modern household budget.
America's Thrift Stores
America's Thrift Stores built a regional retail machine out of the things people no longer want. Its real product is not merely secondhand goods - it is a fast, organized loop connecting closets, store floors, bargain hunters, charities and the waste stream.
Goodwill Industries International
Goodwill Industries International is the umbrella organization for a North American network of about 150 autonomous, community-based Goodwill nonprofits. Founded in Boston in 1902 by Methodist minister Edgar J. Helms, it runs the classic model of collecting donated clothing and household goods, reselling them through thrift stores and, increasingly, online, and using the proceeds to fund free job training, career services, and support programs. The parent body sets brand standards, coordinates national partnerships, and runs shared initiatives such as the online marketplace GoodwillFinds and the Goodwill Digital Career Accelerator, while local members deliver services on the ground.
Onney Crawley
Onney Crawley is the Chief Marketing Officer of Goodwill Industries International, where she leads brand management, creative, digital, public relations, consumer insights and corporate communications across roughly 3,300 stores and hundreds of job service centers. A University of Michigan MBA, she built a career growing billion-dollar brands at General Mills, Kellogg, Mars/Wrigley, Sears and Serta Simmons Bedding before turning her marketing firepower toward a 122-year-old mission brand and its unlikely rise as a Gen Z thrift obsession.