Jim Gibbons (MBA 94) president and CEO of Goodwill Industries International based in Rockville, MD said many people might not be aware of Goodwill’s primary mission. “People know Goodwill from the stores and services Goodwill supplies. But Goodwill has become a community development arm that connects job seekers to employment.”

Last year, he said, Goodwill provided employment and training programs to 1.1 million people, about 20 percent more than in 2006, and placed 140,287 in jobs, about a 10-percent increase over 2006. So far this year, he said, the demand for services appears to be increasing. 

Gibbons was the first blind person to graduate with an MBA from the Harvard Business School and resides locally in Fairfax Station, Virginia. 

From - Goodwill assisted a million job seekers nationwide in ’07 

By Andy Smith, Providence Journal Staff Writer

Sunday, September 7, 2008 

 http://www.projo.com/business/content/JO_GIBBONS_09-07-08_C1BE0R7_v15.445ef62.html