Encouraging Entrepreneurship Through Community Care
Today we are joined by Jeff Kiewel of Goodman Interior Structures, a Benefit Corporation that is focused on our community, environment, and employees as well as our shareholders, and Michele Wright, the founder of GoodTHREADS, Tucson’s only clothing bank for foster, adoptive and kinship families.
Together with the Goodmans Tucson team, GoodTHREADS has clothed over 12,000 kids and enjoyed watching them benefit from the warmth, dignity, pride, and sense of community that comes with the nice clothing and accessories provided by GoodTHREADS and the experience of attending a GoodTHREADS exchange event.
Goodman Interior Structures
Jeff Kiewel
Email: you-jkiewel@goodmans.com&michelew@goodthreads.net
https://www.goodmans.com/
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Jeff is a Tucson native and a graduate of the University of Arizona where he received his degree in Business Administration while becoming a three-year letterman for Arizona Football. Jeff was an All Pac10 performer that has gone on to earn his Masters of Business Administration from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Along the way, Jeff has held leadership positions at some of the biggest brands in the golf industry. In 2015, Jeff joined Goodmans Interior Structures to be a part of their mission “At Goodmans, we will change our community”. Goodmans is officially a Benefit Corporation that is focused on our community, environment, and employees as well as our shareholders.We are active supporters of Local First and our own GoodTHREADS (collecting and redistributing clothing to the foster and kinship community of Southern Arizona). Jeff is a big supporter of local community outreach, is a graduate of the Greater Tucson Leadership class of 2018, and an active member in the Chamber of Commerce, Metropolitan Pima Alliance and other local associations that aim to make Tucson a better place to live and raise a family.
GoodTHREADS
Michele Wright
http://www.goodthreads.net/
SOCIAL MEDIA: LinkedIn
As a foster and adoptive parent, Michele had a deep personal understanding of the challenges foster, adoptive and kinship families face in Arizona. She had an idea and brought it to her employer, Goodmans Interior Structures, a local 64-year-old, 3rdgeneration, family-owned business. Goodmans supported her personal mission with an investment of company resources such as warehouse space, delivery trucks, donation bins, marketing support and by encouraging employee volunteer participation.Together with the Goodmans Tucson team, GoodTHREADS has clothed over 12,000 kids and enjoyed watching them benefit from the warmth, dignity, pride, and sense of community that comes with the nice clothing and accessories provided by GoodTHREADS and the experience of attending a GoodTHREADS exchange event.