The program also will feature the stories of Goodwill achievers. The 30-minute program will feature stylist Argie Mitra dressing fashion show participants in "finds'" from Goodwill stores and providing thrift-shopping tips, according to the nonprofit. "We only ask the community to support our organization by donating their gently used items, which we turn into employment opportunities and funds for our additional mission programs." "Our striving to succeed event is not intended for fundraising, rather it is a 'friend-raising' event," he said. Thursday via the nonprofit's Facebook and broadcast on WJXT TV-4. This year the show will go on virtually, streamed at 12:30 p.m. Seventeen months later, Rey decided to bring back - sort of - Striving to Succeed, Goodwill's popular annual celebrity fashion show that typically has an in-person audience of 600. "I guess you could say I used employee health and safety as my North Star in all this, and everything sort of fell in place after that." "My first thought was keeping our employees safe, particularly those working in our retail stores and donation centers who were out there interfacing with the general public," he said. Rey's first pandemic priority was his employees who work in retail, warehouse, e-commerce, landscaping, support and food service jobs. Goodwill provides job training, employment placement services and other community-based programs. More: Column: Goodwill takes kindness, safety to another level More: After national search, North Florida Goodwill finds new leader on Jacksonville staff "There was no map of how to navigate a pandemic, so thankfully I knew the team I had working with me and knew I could rely on our group to help make critical decisions." Then the world shut down as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold. In February 2020, David Rey was named the new CEO of Goodwill Industries of North Florida after eight years as the Jacksonville-based nonprofit‘s chief financial officer.
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