Goodwill CEO Tom Feurig to Step Down at End of 2014

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Oct. 14, 2014 - PRLog -- Tom Feurig, President and CEO of Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida, Inc., has announced that he will leave his post after 11 years with the organization. After great consideration, Feurig has decided that it is time to pursue new challenges and opportunities that he has been looking forward to exploring. Feurig believes the timing of his departure is right as the organization has never been stronger, more purposeful, and more ready for the great things that lay ahead.

Under Feurig’s leadership, the Southwest Florida Goodwill agency has made major strides in organizational growth, persons served, community collaboration, and innovative programs and services that carry out Goodwill’s mission.

After careful deliberation, the Board of Directors of Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida has officially appointed Rick Evanchyk, currently the organization’s Chief Operating Officer, to be the new President and CEO.  Evanchyk has worked at the organization for the last 10 years and has consistently provided strong leadership to take the organization to the next level.

Feurig will continue his term as President and CEO through 2014.  Evanchyk will officially take over in January.

During Feurig’s tenure, the organization has seen the creation of programs like the Goodwill L.I.F.E. Academy, Job-Link and Mobile Job-Link, The SWFL MicroEnterprise Institute, and Pathways to Opportunity, to service the most vulnerable and also the most underserved populations in our community.  Feurig also fostered key partnerships with the United Way, Trailways Camp, and Sled Hockey, to extend the reach of Goodwill’s mission in the community.

Feurig also endorsed the transformation of the organization’s Retail & Donation Centers to be bigger, brighter, cleaner, more accessible and modernized to give the best customer experience possible to the donors and shoppers.

On the back end of the business, Feurig executed a number of processes to ensure sustainable practices that would reduce landfill waste while demonstrating good stewardship of donated items.

“Tom has led our Goodwill into tremendous growth and financial stability,” says Goodwill board chairman Michael Sullivan. “Under his leadership, our agency has grown from about 300 employees to over 800, and from serving just over 5,000 people through our programs and services to well over 30,000 people each year. He truly has made our Goodwill the organization of choice for helping people with disabilities and disadvantages.”

Evanchyk is a proven operational, fiscal and Human Resources leader with experience in non-profit and for profit administrative management, retail, and international and sales operation management.

In the last 10 years working for Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida, Evanchyk has increased the organization’s housing for people with disabilities from eight complexes to 16, started the Goodwill business development department that includes vending services, janitorial, and shredding businesses, and modernized and strengthened best business practices in the organization’s HR, Finance, and IT departments.

In addition, Evanchyk instituted succession planning as a vehicle to prepare Goodwill employees for upward and increasing responsibility.  He was also responsible for organizing and managing the organization’s monumental renovation and move into their new headquarters, The Goodwill Opportunity Center.

“I was very happy and humbled by the Board of Directors’ appointment to lead this organization as President and CEO,” says Evanchyk. “I look forward to continue growing and strengthening the mission and working with the talent within our Goodwill”

Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization that serves Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry, and Lee counties.  Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida assisted more than 37,000 individuals last year through its various programs and services.  The organization is committed to serving people with disabilities and disadvantages by offering life-changing opportunities to achieve independence.

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