In a continuing effort to increase employability skills and place more people, particularly those who are unemployed or underemployed in jobs, Goodwill has actively partnered with hundreds of organizations. Through these cooperative efforts, Goodwill is able to provide job skills training, job placement and other community-based services such as career counseling, financial education, résumé preparation and mentoring to veterans, individuals with disabilities, veterans, women who have suffered extreme hardship, and others with barriers to employment. Some of Goodwill's partners include the School House Link program of the Sarasota County YMCA, Replay Outreach, the Division of Blind Services, Easter Seals, Loveland Center, United Cerebral Palsy, Manatee Glens, Turning Points, Jewish Family & Children's Service, Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness, Hire Heroes USA, CAREmasters, Community Foundation of Sarasota County, Learn to Fish, and Selah Freedom. Additionally last fall, Google.org and Goodwill Industries International announced the launch of the Goodwill Digital Career Accelerator. Funded by a $10 million grant from Google.org and with the assistance of 1,000 Google volunteers, the new Goodwill initiative will enable more than one million people — including people with disabilities and disadvantages, youth, older workers, veterans and military families, and people who are transitioning back into society — to receive digital skills training over the next three years. This training will commence in our area in May.

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