Our Vision and Values
Our History
Founded in 1925, we are a non-profit with a mission to put people to work. We believe that individuals often need a hand up rather than a hand out.
Everyday we are guided by our core values including:
- Service: We exist to serve our communities and to put people to work
- Excellence: We challenge ourselves to continually grow, learn and improve
- Ethics: We are good stewards of all that is entrusted to us
- Diversity: We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion and respect all people
- Safety: We put safety first in all we do
- Accountability: We hold ourselves and each other accountable to our core values
Our Corporate Responsibility Statement
We have a long-standing commitment to responsible management, which we believe is fundamental to our mission impact and long-term sustainability. We conduct our businesses in a way that emphasizes good governance, operational integrity, ethics and respect for our employees, our community and the environment.
Our aim is to act responsibly in everything that we do, and we believe that achieving our mission results from an emphasis on shopper, donor and jobseeker satisfaction; the development and support of our employees; and impact in the communities in which we operate and serve. This Corporate Responsibility Statement reflects the core values that guide us in conducting the activities of Goodwill of North Georgia and Goodwill Industries of North Georgia.
Goodwillâs Code of Ethics
We affirm our commitment to following a Code of Ethics based on the values of Goodwill of North Georgia. Goodwillâs Code of Ethics can be viewed here.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Guided by our core values, we embrace diversity and respect all people in our organization and in our communities. Around 2010 we set a goal to diversify our agency to better mirror the communities we serve.
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