April 30, 2025 • 11 mins
Time to clear out your closets, drawers and basements of those unwanted items you no longer need to donate to Goodwill. And, the Goodwill Going Green Campaign is offering three lucky donors a free truck stop at their location to make donating easier. Sherwood Macveigh and James Magee are here from Goodwill to discuss.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back at Sandy Collins. This is I heard Cinc,
a Tri state public affairs show. It's time to chat
with our friends from Ohio Valley Goodwill. It is Sherwood McVeigh.
She's the VP of Marketing and your trustee sidekick James McGee,
the sustainability Senior manager for Goodwill. Welcome to the show today,
you too, Sure, let's start with you. It's spring cleaning
(00:21):
time and Goodwill has a promotion going on right now
to get rid of all that stuff that you no
longer want or need, the stuff that you've put aside
in boxes in the dining room or in bags at
the foot of your bed, waiting until they're full to
take to Goodwill. So tell me about your spring cleaning promotion.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Sure, we have been partnering with Resupply for years and
we've realized that, like you said, that, sometimes you have
smaller bags and smaller boxes that are easy to put
in the back of your car and transport right up
to one of our donation centers. And you're probably right
in your community.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
But sometimes you don't.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Sometimes you have a lot more things that you want
to donate, and even the time of year, some people
are moving right. Spring time as the time to you know,
maybe even get a new house or new apartment, and
you really do need to get rid of some stuff.
So we thought we would partner with these guys that Resupply.
They're a veteran founded company and they just have been
(01:18):
a really great partner for us. And we're going to
give away three different pickups, so it's up to a
five hundred dollars value. Everything is based on weight and
you just have to go online to our website at
Fincygodwill dot org and we'll have a landing page for
you to register.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You're registering for an opportunity to be randomly chosen to
them come to your house. They'll go anywhere you need
them to go, right, And what was this white glove
removal of your items? I loved that. That was very
very posh. But they will go in and if you've
got a you know, what is it that you can't take?
I know a lot of nonprofits don't want pianos. Is
(01:59):
that off the table? Is there anything off the table
that you don't want or is it just whatever your
spring cleaning? You guys would be happy to take it.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
James, I'll let you answer that one.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Same I'm going to use one of your words. Oh boy. Okay,
So we're open to taking everything.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
The only thing that we ask for any donor never
to ever donate is things that are going to be harmful,
hazardous a gasoline, anything with your inner peces or or
any kind of oils, anything like that. But anything other
than that, donate away. We want to turn anybody away.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
There are a lot of nonprofits in Cincinnati that actually
will take furniture. They will resell furniture. What happens when
it goes to Goodwill and who benefits? Sure would right.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So yeah, the furniture or any textile, we do put
it right back out into our stores to sell. And
eighty five cents of every dollar who's right to fuel
our emissions. So we do have different programs that that
serve people with developmental disabilities. We have a veterans program.
We do have housing right here on campus at our
(03:07):
Woodlawn location where we have veterans living. And we also
you know, really are looking at partnering with other not
for profits even around the around the city to make
sure that we're providing those wrap around services for people
if they need help with workforce development. Or anything you
(03:28):
know that is making a barrier to them to really
join the community, right to get back to work, or
to re engage with with the community that that they're
in now.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
James, you're in charge of the sustainability department. Tell us
a little bit about what you do and what your
department's goal is.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Same thing with Sherwood said.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
The whole main purpose is of the community base. So
it's not just with textiles. We recycle anything from those
two scrap metal to card board, to books, vapor, biscellaneous,
electric to breaking all the way down to single shoes
for that matter.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Here locally, we.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Like to partner with either non nonprofits like Surewood said,
We're partnered with Matthew twenty five and other local businesses
to Queen City Bikes to help those individuals with transportation
with bike leans, as well as since the shirts and
a few others. Our main purpose is to kind of
be a mini rumky.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So you're saying, James, you're saying that if they've got
let's say the old computer monitors and they're broken, you
still will take them because then you recycle them.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That is huge, James. I can't tell you how many
times I've had people calling or I've asked myself, I've
got all this electronic stuff, I've got all this non
working materials. You don't want to give it to goodwill
and think you're just offloading your junk. But I didn't
realize that this was something that you could actually do
and you could recycle it and you could gain from
that as well.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Absolutely say, any how, many of us probably at home
have fold cell phones sitting in a drawer somewhere, or
an old.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Tablet or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
You know, maybe their kids have outgrown it and it
just gets tossed in a drawer and it sits there.
We can be a designated area where we are partnering
with individuals that have eserts to deal with electronics, so
you don't even have to wipe them if you don't
want to.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
That company will make sure that they do.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Say yeah, well that's a good idea. If you don't
know how to wipe your computer, you can take it
to goodwill. But I bet most people do wipe it
just in case because they should.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
They should. We would highly recommend.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely So when you talk about recycling textiles,
I see that you have a very creative way of
doing that and inspiring young people. Let's talk about the
student Designers contest that's coming up this fashion show. Tell
me all about that.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, So we've been working with the uc DApp Sustainable
Fashion Initiative for about a year now kind of look
for ways of helping them find clothing to work with
or been going over to the university. We have a
been over there to collect you know, fabrics that have
been cut off or used in different capacities to create
(06:09):
their fashions. And we decided, you know, let's not be
afraid to talk about at fabric at more than fashion,
right because it really is more than fashion. It is
about dignity, it's about opportunity, and it's about sustainability and
really bringing to the forefront you know what sustainability and
(06:31):
not just recycling, but circularity could mean. So what we're
doing with the that fashion show, we are bringing over
one of our bills of clothing, which is about twelve
hundred pounds, and it'll be a mini installation type exhibit
at the fashion show. And it seems like a contradiction,
but it's not because we really want to encourage the students,
(06:52):
you know in fashion that yes they're as they're sketching
and designing new clothing, they're actually shaping the world that
we are going to be able to engage with clothing
and fabrics in the future. So encouraging them to keep
being innovative and creative, but also thinking about it as
as a system and what can we do next, and
(07:13):
this pile or this bail of clothing that we're actually
dropping off, we want them to see it as possibility,
not as waste or something that is discouraging, but something
that is possible and something that we want to kind
of embrace together. And that's what I love about the
University of Cincinnati. It's like they're always looking for new
innovative ways and so is really.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
You know, goodwill.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
And it sounds crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Since length to two we have really had this.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
A big idea that nothing and no one is you know,
of no value, and some people actually thought that was innovative,
but it's without a necessity that we actually started collecting
all these different materials and helping the community that we serve.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And now, I mean we've really never stopped doing that,
but now with these collaborations with a UC and now
we're working with standard textile and we're trying to think
through so Valley, so these different different collaborations in different
ways of really joining together and thinking through that circularity,
what is possible?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
What is next for us?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
All right, so let's recap here real quick. You're encouraging
all of the folks that are spring cleaning in their
own homes to get a box, get a bag, get
a truckload, bring it to goodwill. They'll take it, especially
things that are no longer useful, like what else did
you say, James, you said to computers and phones and
what else do people donate to the sustainability project.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I don't want to tell you.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I don't want to be wrong either, say any but
I will tell you everything, Okay, everything other than those
that we truly don't want to take because it's all
going to have some kind of repurpose or reuse value.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Okay, So do that, and then you can enter a
contest to win one of three truckloads to come to
your house. If you've got a big load, like you've
had an inheritance recently, you kicked your X out and
he left all of his stuff. You don't want to
put it on the on the front line or the curb.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Uh, gladly bring it to us. Gladly bring it to us.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Honey, be there by Friday night because Saturday Goodwill's coming
and I'm out of here. And then uh, other things too.
Is like things that you've been, you know, keeping around
the house. It really just don't have any value anymore,
like those bowling trophies, kitchen machines that don't work, that
are stuck in the in the kitchen. I can you
tell this is from my house. I'm just writing down
(09:34):
everything I need to get rid of so you can
enter that contest and give us that address. Again, they're sure, what,
how how they get signed up to win one of
those three truck stops from Goodwill?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You just go to sin C C I N C
I D O O d W I L L so
sincey Goodwill dot org and you'll go right to the
spring clean promotion.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Sounds very good.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, what were you say?
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Oh, and just go to the spring clean promotion.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
We'll have some links and some advertising too, so it'll
hopefully it'd be easy to just go right to that page.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
And if people have heard this interview and they said,
well wait, wait wait I missed that and I can't
even do it. Two things you can do. One, you
can call Goodwill and say, hey, do you guys take this?
Can we ask you a question? I'm sure you're more
than welcome to call or stop by your local Goodwill
and talk to them about what you have and what
you'd like to donate. And the other thing too, is
that this is on the iHeartRadio app. So if you
(10:35):
missed this show, or if we just said something you missed,
give us a couple of days it'll be online and
then you'll be able to hear this entire interview with
my guests today, the sustainability Senior Manager James McGee and
the VP of Marketing Sherwood McVeigh. Thanks for being on
the show today.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Good luck with.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Your Goodwill spring cleaning drive, and will let us know
who one we'll like to congratulate them here on the air.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Oh yeah, that'd be a great idea. I forgot to
mention we will have a waice of registering inside the
source to next to the registers, so if you've gone shopping, ma,
don't forget to donate.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
We'll look for that. Thanks to you for stopping by today.
If you've got comments or suggestions, or questions about the show.
Just send me an email to Iheartsincy with an I
at iHeartMedia dot com. You can check out this show
as a podcast on the free iHeartRadio app. Just search
for my name Sandy Collins on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks
(11:28):
for listening, We'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
iHeart Cincy is a production of iHeartMedia Centinnati
Welcome back at Sandy Collins. This is I heard Cinc,
a Tri state public affairs show. It's time to chat
with our friends from Ohio Valley Goodwill. It is Sherwood McVeigh.
She's the VP of Marketing and your trustee sidekick James McGee,
the sustainability Senior manager for Goodwill. Welcome to the show today,
you too, Sure, let's start with you. It's spring cleaning
(00:21):
time and Goodwill has a promotion going on right now
to get rid of all that stuff that you no
longer want or need, the stuff that you've put aside
in boxes in the dining room or in bags at
the foot of your bed, waiting until they're full to
take to Goodwill. So tell me about your spring cleaning promotion.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Sure, we have been partnering with Resupply for years and
we've realized that, like you said, that, sometimes you have
smaller bags and smaller boxes that are easy to put
in the back of your car and transport right up
to one of our donation centers. And you're probably right
in your community.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
But sometimes you don't.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Sometimes you have a lot more things that you want
to donate, and even the time of year, some people
are moving right. Spring time as the time to you know,
maybe even get a new house or new apartment, and
you really do need to get rid of some stuff.
So we thought we would partner with these guys that Resupply.
They're a veteran founded company and they just have been
(01:18):
a really great partner for us. And we're going to
give away three different pickups, so it's up to a
five hundred dollars value. Everything is based on weight and
you just have to go online to our website at
Fincygodwill dot org and we'll have a landing page for
you to register.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You're registering for an opportunity to be randomly chosen to
them come to your house. They'll go anywhere you need
them to go, right, And what was this white glove
removal of your items? I loved that. That was very
very posh. But they will go in and if you've
got a you know, what is it that you can't take?
I know a lot of nonprofits don't want pianos. Is
(01:59):
that off the table? Is there anything off the table
that you don't want or is it just whatever your
spring cleaning? You guys would be happy to take it.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
James, I'll let you answer that one.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Same I'm going to use one of your words. Oh boy. Okay,
So we're open to taking everything.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
The only thing that we ask for any donor never
to ever donate is things that are going to be harmful,
hazardous a gasoline, anything with your inner peces or or
any kind of oils, anything like that. But anything other
than that, donate away. We want to turn anybody away.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
There are a lot of nonprofits in Cincinnati that actually
will take furniture. They will resell furniture. What happens when
it goes to Goodwill and who benefits? Sure would right.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So yeah, the furniture or any textile, we do put
it right back out into our stores to sell. And
eighty five cents of every dollar who's right to fuel
our emissions. So we do have different programs that that
serve people with developmental disabilities. We have a veterans program.
We do have housing right here on campus at our
(03:07):
Woodlawn location where we have veterans living. And we also
you know, really are looking at partnering with other not
for profits even around the around the city to make
sure that we're providing those wrap around services for people
if they need help with workforce development. Or anything you
(03:28):
know that is making a barrier to them to really
join the community, right to get back to work, or
to re engage with with the community that that they're
in now.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
James, you're in charge of the sustainability department. Tell us
a little bit about what you do and what your
department's goal is.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Same thing with Sherwood said.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
The whole main purpose is of the community base. So
it's not just with textiles. We recycle anything from those
two scrap metal to card board, to books, vapor, biscellaneous,
electric to breaking all the way down to single shoes
for that matter.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Here locally, we.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Like to partner with either non nonprofits like Surewood said,
We're partnered with Matthew twenty five and other local businesses
to Queen City Bikes to help those individuals with transportation
with bike leans, as well as since the shirts and
a few others. Our main purpose is to kind of
be a mini rumky.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So you're saying, James, you're saying that if they've got
let's say the old computer monitors and they're broken, you
still will take them because then you recycle them.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That is huge, James. I can't tell you how many
times I've had people calling or I've asked myself, I've
got all this electronic stuff, I've got all this non
working materials. You don't want to give it to goodwill
and think you're just offloading your junk. But I didn't
realize that this was something that you could actually do
and you could recycle it and you could gain from
that as well.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Absolutely say, any how, many of us probably at home
have fold cell phones sitting in a drawer somewhere, or
an old.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Tablet or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
You know, maybe their kids have outgrown it and it
just gets tossed in a drawer and it sits there.
We can be a designated area where we are partnering
with individuals that have eserts to deal with electronics, so
you don't even have to wipe them if you don't
want to.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
That company will make sure that they do.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Say yeah, well that's a good idea. If you don't
know how to wipe your computer, you can take it
to goodwill. But I bet most people do wipe it
just in case because they should.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
They should. We would highly recommend.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely So when you talk about recycling textiles,
I see that you have a very creative way of
doing that and inspiring young people. Let's talk about the
student Designers contest that's coming up this fashion show. Tell
me all about that.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, So we've been working with the uc DApp Sustainable
Fashion Initiative for about a year now kind of look
for ways of helping them find clothing to work with
or been going over to the university. We have a
been over there to collect you know, fabrics that have
been cut off or used in different capacities to create
(06:09):
their fashions. And we decided, you know, let's not be
afraid to talk about at fabric at more than fashion,
right because it really is more than fashion. It is
about dignity, it's about opportunity, and it's about sustainability and
really bringing to the forefront you know what sustainability and
(06:31):
not just recycling, but circularity could mean. So what we're
doing with the that fashion show, we are bringing over
one of our bills of clothing, which is about twelve
hundred pounds, and it'll be a mini installation type exhibit
at the fashion show. And it seems like a contradiction,
but it's not because we really want to encourage the students,
(06:52):
you know in fashion that yes they're as they're sketching
and designing new clothing, they're actually shaping the world that
we are going to be able to engage with clothing
and fabrics in the future. So encouraging them to keep
being innovative and creative, but also thinking about it as
as a system and what can we do next, and
(07:13):
this pile or this bail of clothing that we're actually
dropping off, we want them to see it as possibility,
not as waste or something that is discouraging, but something
that is possible and something that we want to kind
of embrace together. And that's what I love about the
University of Cincinnati. It's like they're always looking for new
innovative ways and so is really.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
You know, goodwill.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
And it sounds crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Since length to two we have really had this.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
A big idea that nothing and no one is you know,
of no value, and some people actually thought that was innovative,
but it's without a necessity that we actually started collecting
all these different materials and helping the community that we serve.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And now, I mean we've really never stopped doing that,
but now with these collaborations with a UC and now
we're working with standard textile and we're trying to think
through so Valley, so these different different collaborations in different
ways of really joining together and thinking through that circularity,
what is possible?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
What is next for us?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
All right, so let's recap here real quick. You're encouraging
all of the folks that are spring cleaning in their
own homes to get a box, get a bag, get
a truckload, bring it to goodwill. They'll take it, especially
things that are no longer useful, like what else did
you say, James, you said to computers and phones and
what else do people donate to the sustainability project.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I don't want to tell you.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I don't want to be wrong either, say any but
I will tell you everything, Okay, everything other than those
that we truly don't want to take because it's all
going to have some kind of repurpose or reuse value.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Okay, So do that, and then you can enter a
contest to win one of three truckloads to come to
your house. If you've got a big load, like you've
had an inheritance recently, you kicked your X out and
he left all of his stuff. You don't want to
put it on the on the front line or the curb.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Uh, gladly bring it to us. Gladly bring it to us.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Honey, be there by Friday night because Saturday Goodwill's coming
and I'm out of here. And then uh, other things too.
Is like things that you've been, you know, keeping around
the house. It really just don't have any value anymore,
like those bowling trophies, kitchen machines that don't work, that
are stuck in the in the kitchen. I can you
tell this is from my house. I'm just writing down
(09:34):
everything I need to get rid of so you can
enter that contest and give us that address. Again, they're sure, what,
how how they get signed up to win one of
those three truck stops from Goodwill?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You just go to sin C C I N C
I D O O d W I L L so
sincey Goodwill dot org and you'll go right to the
spring clean promotion.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Sounds very good.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, what were you say?
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Oh, and just go to the spring clean promotion.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
We'll have some links and some advertising too, so it'll
hopefully it'd be easy to just go right to that page.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
And if people have heard this interview and they said,
well wait, wait wait I missed that and I can't
even do it. Two things you can do. One, you
can call Goodwill and say, hey, do you guys take this?
Can we ask you a question? I'm sure you're more
than welcome to call or stop by your local Goodwill
and talk to them about what you have and what
you'd like to donate. And the other thing too, is
that this is on the iHeartRadio app. So if you
(10:35):
missed this show, or if we just said something you missed,
give us a couple of days it'll be online and
then you'll be able to hear this entire interview with
my guests today, the sustainability Senior Manager James McGee and
the VP of Marketing Sherwood McVeigh. Thanks for being on
the show today.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Good luck with.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Your Goodwill spring cleaning drive, and will let us know
who one we'll like to congratulate them here on the air.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Oh yeah, that'd be a great idea. I forgot to
mention we will have a waice of registering inside the
source to next to the registers, so if you've gone shopping, ma,
don't forget to donate.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
We'll look for that. Thanks to you for stopping by today.
If you've got comments or suggestions, or questions about the show.
Just send me an email to Iheartsincy with an I
at iHeartMedia dot com. You can check out this show
as a podcast on the free iHeartRadio app. Just search
for my name Sandy Collins on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks
(11:28):
for listening, We'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
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