Bon-Ton Collects Over Two Million Pounds of Donations for Goodwill

Bon-Ton’s recent Goodwill Sale helped customers convert their spring cleaning stashes into useful donations, creating jobs in the process.
From March 12 to 28, donors traded gathered up clothing, shoes, handbags and household textiles to 270 Bon-Ton, Bergner’s, Boston Store, Carson’s, Elder-Beerman, Herberger’s and Younkers store location for coupons toward new fashion and home merchandise at Bon-Ton stores. The donations, which are then sold at Goodwill Industries International, brought in 2.1 million pounds of clothing and textiles.

“The Bon-Ton Goodwill Sale has been a time-honored tradition for Bon-Ton customers for more than two decades,” said Kathryn Bufano, president and CEO of The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. “With the generosity of our customers, this charitable event has made a huge local impact to help fund Goodwill’s job placement and training services which help strengthen our community.”

Optional cash donations (in exchange for additional Bon-Ton discount coupons) raised another $492,000 to strengthen Goodwill’s mission in communities across the Bon-Ton footprint. The Bon-Ton Goodwill Sale is the largest and longest-standing department store donation drive with Goodwill. Collectively, cash and textile donations from this spring’s Bon-Ton Goodwill Sale will provide an estimated 300,000 hours of job training services to people who face challenges to finding employment.

“For more than 20 years, Goodwill has been proud to partner with Bon-Ton to bring opportunities to people in more communities,” said Jim Gibbons, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries International. “We are grateful for their customers’ donations and the philanthropic commitment of the Bon-Ton Stores to helping people in our local communities.”