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This Is Goodwill Industries of America, Inc.
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"In recent years I have become increasingly aware of the Goodwill Industries program as a port of our total international effort on behalf of the physically handicapped of the world. Many visitors from other countries, while in the United States, become acquainted with the Goodwill program, and I have been repeatedly impressed by their comments. They become convinced that the Goodwill Industries has a practical program and that your experience should be more extensively utilized in other countries of the world." | |
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"As a business man with an active interest in the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped, I very much appreciate the need for a program for handicapped people which better fits them for normal occupations in business or industrial life. It is the function of the President's Committee to encourage employment of handicapped people. Goodwill Industries well serve in this general area because they not only train people for employment but they provide repeated demonstrations that the handicapped are employable by doing this very thing themselves." | |
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"Throughout our country are an estimated two million people who need the help of all of us. They are people who don't have jobs -- who depend upon taxpayers or families for support -- because they have handicaps or disabilities. Many of these people can work . . . some with the same ability that people without handicaps have. Others can work at least part time. Still others can ultimately become self-supporting if they are given training. Our country needs these people -- and they need us. Goodwill Industries have an increasingly important part in the satisfaction of these people's and our nation's needs." | |
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"Goodwill Industries are certainly to be congratulated on the excellent job they are doing. Where Goodwill Industries are located in, or adjacent to, coal mining areas our field representatives are in touch with them. They have enlisted their cooperation and support in working with many of our beneficiaries in need of rehabilitation services. They have always found your agency willing and able to assist them. Numerous examples of your efforts on the behalf of disabled beneficiaries of the United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund are in our files." | |
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"You and all those who are working with you to encourage the physically handicapped that he has a vital place in our society deserve every commendation. Permit me to take this occasion to wish your fine organization every success in its noble endeavors." | |
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"Helping people to help themselves, the core and creed of Goodwill Industries, gives to unfortunate and handicapped people a glow of hope, a sense of independence and a feeling of usefulness, all of which are essential to successful rehabilitation." | |
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"I am pleased to congratulate Goodwill Industries for their fine service to handicapped people. I have two good reasons for doing so. First, I am, myself, blind, and have been for about five years. I know what it means to be discouraged about taking a full place in the community. Secondly, as Chairman of the President's Committee, I am well aware of the excellent work Goodwill Industries are doing in training and placing disabled men and women in jobs. I would like to encourage many more of such programs of service." | |
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"Those of us concerned with the business economy of the nation are deeply impressed by the business-like way in which the Goodwill Industries meet a social welfare need. Goodwill Industries have adapted business methods to achieve a humanitarian goal. The substantial degree of self-support of the Goodwill Industries is, in addition, a uniquely commendable feature of its operation." | |
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"The year 1956 has been a great year in the rehabilitation of disabled people to useful and more satisfying life. Goodwill Industries -- all over the country -- have contributed notably to this result. The mounting interest, understanding and support of public rehabilitation agencies and Goodwill Industries results largely from a most significant development: the evolution of an increasingly strong partnership among the public and private agencies. Goodwill Industries have been prominent in blazing a trail of public-private cooperative effort. While this most fruitful partnership has developed, it is gratifying to note that the basic principle of Goodwill remains unchanged, indeed strengthened: the application of private enterprise to help handicapped people help themselves. | |
