{"id":781668,"date":"2026-02-26T18:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/?p=781668"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:38:46","slug":"my-goodwill-story-jennifer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/blog\/impact-spotlight\/my-goodwill-story-jennifer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My Goodwill Story – Jennifer"},"content":{"rendered":"

February is Declutter for a Cause month, so\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0the perfect time to clean out your closet and take some boxes to your local Goodwill\u00ae. When you do, you\u00a0could be supporting someone like Jennifer who worked hard to advance her career, despite living through a\u00a0devastating\u00a0hurricane, and just needed a little extra help at the finish line.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jennifer was working at Walmart when she saw a poster in the pharmacy advertising a pharmacy technician training program.\u00a0It was an exciting opportunity to advance her career, so she\u00a0quickly signed\u00a0up.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Six months into her schooling, Hurricane Ian hit Florida, and Jennifer\u2019s home was destroyed. She had to put schooling on hold while\u00a0her family adjusted and applied for FEMA housing. Once their housing application was approved, Jennifer went right back to her training.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After some\u00a0hard work, Jennifer obtained her diploma and was hired by a local pharmacy.\u00a0She\u00a0started\u00a0off with paid training before being assigned to a particular\u00a0store but\u00a0getting\u00a0to and from the training\u00a0site\u00a0proved difficult.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Getting a Lyft<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One day, Jennifer walked into the Community Resource Center at Goodwill Industries\u00a0of\u00a0Southwest Florida (Fort Myers). She was there to print off her diploma, but\u00a0the\u00a0staff struck up a conversation with her to see if there was anything else she needed. When she shared her\u00a0difficulties with transportation, Goodwill had a solution.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to a partnership with Lyft, Goodwill was able to provide Jennifer with free ride codes to ensure she could get to her training.\u00a0It was exactly what she needed to ensure she\u00a0didn’t\u00a0lose out on this opportunity she worked so hard for.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With training complete, Jennifer was assigned to a local pharmacy store and is excited about the opportunities for advancement that are now available to her. While she still lives in FEMA housing, she feels confident that life is moving in a better direction now for her and her family.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reach out to your local\u00a0<\/span>Goodwill career center<\/span><\/a>\u00a0if\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0interested in seeing what support is available to you.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Locate a Career Center<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February is Declutter for a Cause month, so\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0the perfect time to clean out your closet and take some boxes to your local Goodwill\u00ae. When you do, you\u00a0could be supporting someone like Jennifer who worked hard to advance her career, despite living through a\u00a0devastating\u00a0hurricane, and just needed a little extra help at the finish line.\u00a0 Jennifer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":781672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact-spotlight","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781671,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781668\/revisions\/781671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}