Goodwill Projects Increase in Donors

By Péralte Paul

For Goodwill of North Georgia, which has stores at Northlake Festival and Northeast Plaza and numerous area donation centers, the period between Christmas and the New Year's Day is the busiest in terms of donations.

The charity projects it will see some 90,000 people making donations in that period, up from the 80,000 last year.

To cut down on long lines, the organization this year launched an electronic receipt program.

Rather than signing in to obtain a donation receipt, donors will receive an ID number. They can use that number to later access their receipt electronically.

“They don’t need to write anything," Elaine Armstrong, a Goodwill spokeswoman, said in a statement. "Donors can simply drive up, allow us to unload their items, and leave with their ID number.”

Goodwill’s online Donation Tracker stores each user’s receipts, freeing donors from holding on to the records. First-time users will need to complete a simple, one-page registration process.

Once they’ve created a profile, users can add and manage donations as they make them from a computer or mobile device.

Goodwill still urges donors to double check what they plan donate before leaving their homes.