Survey Says: Goodwill Manasota economic impact up $10 million

As part of the impact it had, the nonprofit hired 170 employees throughout the region last year.

By Business Observer Staff
| 11:43 a.m. April 15, 2022
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Courtesy. Pictured, from left, at Joshanna Franklin, Noah Galer and Lekesha Dunbar, all Goodwill Manasota team members, at the corporate campus in Bradenton.

Manatee-Sarasota

As its name intends, Goodwill Manasota indeed provided some goodwill to Sarasota, Manatee, DeSoto and Hardee counties over the past year in terms of its economic impact.

The Bradenton-based nonprofit’s impact of $91.04 million in 2021 was up $10 million over the previous year. The impact was based on gross receipts for goods and services that came from Goodwill Manasota’s activities like job placements and total wage and salary payments. The data, provided by Arizona-based Elliott D. Pollack & Co., also reflected construction and capital improvements that were made to new and existing facilities.