Goodwill Industries of Sacramento Valley and Northern Nevada Goodwill Destroys Items Donated By The Public Sacramento California

Please do not donate anything to this company. While many of believe your donations are assisting people who need help, quite the opposite is true.

This Goodwill is a non-profit franchise owned by the following persons: Joe Mendez, John Sweet, Mark Klingerer and Paul Klingerer. These men were well off to begin with and thanks to the items you give away to the retail stores and Donation Express shops, all four are now quite wealthy and their personal assets continue to grow.

What you do not know is this: Goodwill receives so many items from the public and have such high prices, they cannot sell everything. Rather than allow other charitable organizations have access to any of this, clothing is dumped on the floor of property leased at the old Army Depot where much of it is destroyed by rodents. Glassware and furniture is run through the industrial compactors at the Date and Franklin plants. And, yes, there has been more than one compactor fire due to misuse and overuse. In December of 2016, a young man who had been employed less than one month was killed when his head was crushed in the compactor at Franklin. Goodwill settled out of court and within weeks no more was heard about this incident.

For those of you that bring food donations for the River City Food Bank, those donations are not getting there. Depending on where the donations are getting picked up some go to the Franklin plant where they are tossed in the trash. And, no, the food is not sorted to determine if it's past the expiration date. It all goes in.

To add insult to injury, Goodwill then trucks the crushed items and food to the landfill where they spend over $30,000 per month on fees to dump. So you can see that a lot of the money received from the sale of items you gave away goes in the owners' pockets and the landfill. Not only that Goodwill states they claim all of this to the IRS so they can receive tax breaks! Quite the racket, isn't it?