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Goodwill Launches Community Designed Donation Bin Campaign with Applebee’s

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New “Kid’s Bins” designed by school children to promote Goodwill mission and develop community pride of ownership

Washington, DC – While a growing number of communities are becoming inundated with unmarked donation bins or bins with dubious charitable benefit, Goodwill of Greater Washington (DC Goodwill) is launching a new campaign to make its donation bins unique, while emphasizing the charity’s mission in a fun and community driven manner. The campaign is called, “Goodwill Kid’s Bins”.

In partnership with Applebee’s, DC Goodwill is working with local schools by inviting students to design the artwork that will wrap each new donation bin placed in an Applebee’s parking lot.

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The Fashion of Goodwill Runway Show & Gala Takes an Artistic Turn

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If fashion is indeed art, then nowhere can you find a more diverse collection of fashionable art than at Goodwill of Greater Washington retail stores – where styles, genres, colors, patterns, brands, generations and genders are so universally represented.

That’s why on September 24th at Artisphere in Rosslyn, the popular Fashion of Goodwill Runway Show and Gala will return with an imaginative theme: The Art of Fashion!

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