Knoxville, TN - April 28, 2008 -- Fifty lucky schools will receive $10,000 grants through the Goody’s Good Deeds for Schools grant program beginning this month. For a complete list of winners, click here.

Goody’s Family Clothing, a retailer of moderately priced apparel headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn., had a tremendous response to the Good Deeds for Schools grant program’s inaugural year. More than 1000 applications were received. Of those, 350 finalists were selected by local store associates and 50 winners were determined at the corporate level. The grant program is designed to help schools in Goody’s markets pay for projects integral to enhancing students’ educational experience that the school would not otherwise be able to afford, such as art enrichment programs, updated textbooks, or enhanced technology tools.

The Goody’s Good Deeds for Schools program is funded in part by proceeds from the sale of Ashley Judd’s clothing line, available exclusively at Goody’s. “Knowing that schools are consistently under-funded, Goody’s store managers expressed an interest in creating a campaign to help their neighborhood schools, and thus Good Deeds for Schools was born,” said Mary Beth Fox, Goody’s vice president, marketing, strategy, and planning. “Goody’s and Ashley Judd are proud to support our local students and teachers through this program, which we believe will fit in nicely with our company’s long-standing mission to help children and families.”

"Children are our future,” said Ashley Judd. “A good educational experience is their birthright; fostering that notion is at the heart of this grant program.”

Grant applications went through two rounds of judging and were awarded based on compelling need (50%), effective and executable plan of action (20%), wise use of resources (20%) and collateral materials (10%).

About Goody's

With headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn., Goody’s is a retailer of moderately priced family apparel operating 373 stores in the 20 states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Goody’s Holdings, Inc., is a privately held company owned by GMM Capital LLC and PGDYS LLC; Prentice Capital Management is the managing member of PGDYS. For more information on Goody’s, visit www.shopgoodys.com.

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