This North Texas Giving Day, we’re raising $30,000 to expand Empowerment Works — a program that helps adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) build skills, confidence, and connection through Vocational Opportunities, Lifelong Learning and Community Engagement.
Empowerment Works supports adults with IDD through three key pillars:
Offsite Learning Opportunities bring classroom lessons to life. Participants visit libraries, parks, grocery stores, and museums, among others — practicing independence, building confidence, and engaging with the North Texas community. Thanks to generous North Texas Giving Day donors last year, we purchased a wheelchair-accessible van, making these outings possible twice a month.
This year, with your support, we’re setting our sights higher: weekly Offsite Learning Opportunities and expanded Lifelong Learning classes that spark connection, build confidence, and open doors to new possibilities. Participants will experience:
Your gift empowers adults with IDD to unlock their potential and embrace new possibilities.
Together, we can open doors to connection, confidence, and purpose — helping every participant learn, grow, and thrive
At Goodwill Industries of Dallas (Goodwill), we are changing lives, one job at a time. We exist to help people with barriers recognize and reach their full potential and experience a life filled with purpose, accomplishment, and self-sufficiency.
Since 1923, Goodwill has provided job training and employment to individuals with disabilities and those emerging from crisis ages 18-65+, including people:
With intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs)
Re-entering the workforce from incarceration
Who are unemployed and underemployed, including working poor
Who lack of GED/high school equivalency
With a history of substance abuse
This North Texas Giving Day, our goal is to raise $30,000 to expand Empowerment Works with more Lifelong Learning and Community Engagement opportunities for adults with IDD.
Despite determination and talent, many adults with IDD experience social isolation that limits opportunities to connect and grow. That’s why Empowerment Works is so life-changing. Today, 37 adults are enrolled, building skills and confidence through classroom learning, job training, and community outings.
With your support, we can increase the number of weekly field trips, add new Lifelong Learning classes, and create more ways for participants to engage with our North Texas community.
Our core values are respect, commitment, improvement, integrity, and service. The consistent execution of these core values drives success for both our organization and those that we serve. Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that encourages and celebrates the distinct voices of our people and clients. It is through our shared awareness, commitment, and embodiment of these principles that we foster a culture of belonging, where everyone is welcome and appreciated, because diversity, equity, and inclusion is not just something we do, it is the core of who we are.
Organization name
Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc.
Causes
Intellectual, Developmental, and Physical Differences, Employment & Workforce Development, Justice-involved adults or youth
Operating Budget
$10,000,000 or more
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Kaufman, Navarro, Rockwall
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Other
Address
3020 N WESTMORELAND RD