Category: Building an Active Community

Goodwill donation will help keep dozens of dogs warm as they await adoption

Goodwill donates blankets to Sioux City Animal Adoption & Rescue Center

Goodwill of the Great Plains Operations Supervisor Marty Murguia (left) is seen with Cindy Rarrat (right) of the Sioux City Animal Adoption & Rescue Center after Goodwill donated blankets to the center on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026.
Goodwill of the Great Plains Operations Supervisor Marty Murguia (left) is seen with Cindy Rarrat (right) of the Sioux City Animal Adoption & Rescue Center after Goodwill donated blankets to the center on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026.

On Friday, Oct. 16th, Goodwill of the Great Plains donated several blankets to Sioux City’s Animal Adoption & Rescue Center, located at 2400 Hawkeye Dr. in Sioux City, Iowa.

The donation couldn’t have come at a better time, as the center currently has more than 60 dogs who are in need of adoption.

To find out more about the Sioux City Animal Adoption & Rescue Center, including which animals are currently available for adoption, please visit its website at https://www.siouxcityanimalrescue.com/.

To find out more about Goodwill of the Great Plains, including job training and placement programs currently offered, please visit https://goodwillgreatplains.org/.

2024 – A Year of Good

A look back at what we accomplished together in 2024

Thanks to your generous support, Goodwill of the Great Plains made a difference in more than 32,000 lives in 2024 – helping hundreds of people get jobs, changing thousands of lives and diverting millions of pounds from landfills.

Take a deeper dive into those numbers below:

A look at how Goodwill of the Great Plains positively impacted the communities it serves in 2024 - showing various statistics and numbers related to programming, pounds of material diverted from landfills, pounds of material recycled and more.

Together, we were able to do a lot of GOOD!

To find out more about the programs and services offered by Goodwill of the Great Plains, please visit goodwillgreatplains.org

Goodwill’s new Sioux Center store opens for business

The new Sioux Center store will now be open seven days a week

A group of people stand behind a blue ribbon while holding a giant pair of scissors, as they celebrate the opening of the new Goodwill of the Great Plains retail store in Sioux Center, Iowa on Thursday, Feb. 20th, 2025.

The newest Goodwill of the Great Plains retail store, the organization’s 23rd overall and 8th in Iowa, is now open for business!

Dozens of people from the community, including members of the Sioux Center Chamber of Commerce, braved the cold weather Thursday morning, Feb. 20th, to celebrate with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The store will now be open seven days a week, with the following hours:

Monday – Saturday 9am to 9pm
Sunday 10am to 6pm

Donations can now be dropped off during all regular business hours, as well.

When you shop at Goodwill, including the new Sioux Center store, you can be confident that your money stays local – .87 cents of every dollar spent at your local Goodwill goes directly back to fund job training and placement programs.

To find out more about Goodwill and its mission of helping people find meaningful community employment, please visit www.goodwillgreatplains.org.

Goodwill awarded $50,000 Missouri River Historical Development grant to help cover Mission Services Center construction costs

Goodwill was one of 26 organizations to receive grant money

Goodwill of the Great Plains was awarded a $50,000 Missouri River Historical Development Impact Match Grant during a ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 24th at the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center in Sioux City.

The money will go toward the construction of Goodwill’s new Mission Services Center, a more than 20,000-sq-ft, state-of-the-art net zero building.

The first-of-its-kind in the area, the new building will use solar panels and geothermal heating and cooling technology and be the new home of Goodwill’s Sioux City Job Center and Integrated Day Services, both programs that help adults gain more rewarding and independent lives.

The Mission Services Center is currently being built across the street from Goodwill’s main Support Center on W. 4th St. in Sioux City.

During the ceremony, Missouri River Historical Development awarded grants to 26 organizations, totaling $1.25 million, narrowed down from a list of 44 applicants.