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Welcome to the GIENC® homepage, your portal to everything you want to know
about our training programs, our retail program centers, our latest news and
how to contact us.

Public support through generous donations of gently used clothing and household items to our
GCF Donation Centers & Stores® make our programs possible.

Click on a square on the map or a link on the list below to find the location of the
GCF Donation Center & Store® nearest you. For additional information, visit our Retail Program Centers page.

Employment - GIENC provided employment opportunities to 443 people through its 26 Retail Program Centers
serving 15 counties in eastern North Carolina in 2006. Persons served through employment earned an
average hourly wage and benefit of $16.32. Total Program Costs were $12,413,044.

Rehabilitation - GIENC provided opportunities for 85 high school students with disabilities to earn hours
at its Chin Page Road facility that may be applied towards state requirements for a high school diploma.
Total Program Costs were $735,069.

Education and Training - GIENC provided education and training through courses taught to students
at its Hargett Street Facility. Internet classes in entry level computer program skills, provided in English and Spanish,
served over 76,200 students from 278 communities in eastern North Carolina; as well as other communities in the remainder
of the United States and globally from its Chin Page facility. Total Program Costs were $982,596.

Opportunities for Personal Growth - Support the provision of program focused facilities equipment and
grants by Goodwill Community Foundation, Inc. "to assist persons, including, but not limited to, those with disabilities
and the disadvantaged to attain the fullest development of which they are capable." Total Program Costs were $6,500,000.

"Creating an environment for people to improve
the quality of their lives through employment,
learning and life enrichment opportunities."