2025 Annual Report_Draft 8_Page View

Board of Directors GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ARKANSAS

Community Impact

Your donations make all the difference. More than 96% of our operating revenue comes from the sale of donated goods and your generosity fuels education, training and employment opportunities that change lives across our state.

Miguel Lopez Board Chair Southern Bancorp

Elizabeth Small Vice Chair UA Little Rock College of Business

Troy Wells Past Chair Baptist Health

Carrie Harper Smith Secretary Sterling Seacrest Partners

Jay Meador Treasurer First Horizon Bank

8,417 People Served

$93.3 M Economic Impact

1,008,574 Total Number of Donations 34.9 M Total Pounds of Retail Items Sold 3,560,503 Customer Transactions

1,151 Certifications and Credentials Awarded

Douglas Jackson Foundation Chair Merrill Lynch

Denise Luft Mission Chair Janet Jones Realty

Chris Amsler Arkansas Mailing Services

Jeff Byers Mainstream Technologies, Inc.

Ted Darragh, III Darragh Company

870 People Found Work Statewide $25.1 M In Projected Annual Wages

Danny Games Entergy

Matuschka Lindo Briggs Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Fred M. Perkins, III Wright, Lindsey & Jennings LLP

Mike Poore Education Partners

Jay Stanley Stone Ward

Goodwill Industries of Arkansas welcomed two new members to the Board of Directors in 2025: Jeff Byers, vice president of software solutions at Mainstream Tech- nologies, and Mike Poore, executive vice president of Education Partners. Both leaders bring extensive ex- perience in technology and education, strengthening Goodwill’s ability to advance its mission of changing lives through education, training and employment.

35 Retail Stores Stocked

1,379 Arkansans Employed by Goodwill

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Gary Stark Walton Personal Philanthropy Group

Brad Walker Catlett Law Firm

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