The Goodwill Career Solutions center at 937 Herman St. in Nashville will host a job fair from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17, for 29 employers seeking to fill more than 500 positions in Davidson and surrounding counties. Employers include Writgen America, Hertz, People Ready, YMCA, Metro Nashville Public Schools, Goodwill, Automation, Assemblers Inc.,…
A Goodwill employee in Shelbyville will receive a donated vehicle through the nonprofit’s Wheels-to- Work program on April 4. The Wheels-to- Work Program was established to help Goodwill employees and clients who need reliable transportation to get to work. Goodwill President and CEO Matthew Bourlakas will present Mary Entsminger, a retail associate at the Shelbyville…
When Brenda was 12, her mother was killed in an automobile accident. For the next two years, Brenda rarely spoke. “I didn’t want to say nothing to nobody,” she recalled. “My mom was my world.” It was just one difficult episode in what many people might consider a hard-knocks life. Brenda was born without eyesight….
Alena Sanders has been helping others all her life. As a child in her native Czech Republic, she volunteered alongside her parents in disaster relief efforts. She also collected toys for orphanages. After her family moved to America in 2002 when she was 15, she volunteered with a program that kept schoolchildren out of harm’s…