{"id":24915,"date":"2013-07-11T14:42:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T18:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=24915"},"modified":"2013-07-11T14:42:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T18:42:06","slug":"follow-up-to-the-goodwill-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/07\/follow-up-to-the-goodwill-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow up to the Goodwill Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24901 alignleft\" title=\"goodwill1 logo\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/goodwill1-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"255\" \/>According to Tweets that the Lehigh Acres Gazette received the Goodwill of SWFL\u2019s CEO does not make $300,000 a year. The writer of the tweets would not tell us how much the CEO makes so we looked it up.<\/p>\n<p>Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida, Inc is a 501(c) 3 tax deductible charity that turns your <strong>FREE <\/strong>donated items into cash by selling the items in their stores.<\/p>\n<p>Now let\u2019s look at the compensation for the top three officers at Goodwill of SWFL in 2011 $659,830 plus pension.<\/p>\n<p>Today Goodwill of SWFL is building a new store on Lee Blvd.<\/p>\n<p>Question, should Lehigh Acres residents support a company that does good work by training citizens with disabilities but on the other hand pays their officers hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary from free donated items.<\/p>\n<p>You now can read each year\u2019s IRS 990 form and make up your own mind.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>2009<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Goodwill-990-2009.pdf\">990 click here<\/a>)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Total Compensation of current officers, directors, trustees, and key employees in 2009 $666,089.00 dollars<\/p>\n<p>Includes \u2013 $210,735 for the CEO, $158,918 Senior VP and $96,676 for the VP of Retail<\/p>\n<p><strong>2010<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Goodwill-990-2010.pdf\">990 click here<\/a>)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Total Compensation of current officers, directors, trustees, and key employees in 2010 $582,602 dollars<\/p>\n<p>Includes \u2013 $277,251 for the CEO, $240,111Senior VP and $142,468 for the VP of Retail<\/p>\n<p>Paid additional $360,609 into a \u00a0pension plan<\/p>\n<p><strong>2011<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Goodwill-990-2011.pdf\">990 click here<\/a>) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Total Compensation of current officers, directors, trustees, and key employees in 2011 $883.970.00 dollars<\/p>\n<p>Includes \u2013 $277,251 for the CEO, $240,111 Senior VP and $142,468 for the VP of Retail<\/p>\n<p>Paid additional $359,573 into a pension plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Tweets that the Lehigh Acres Gazette received the Goodwill of SWFL\u2019s CEO does not make $300,000 a year. The writer of the tweets would not tell us how&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}