Goodwill

Goodwill or good will is favorably disposed attitude toward someone or something, the term may also refer to:

• Goodwill (accounting), the value of a business entity not directly attributable to its assets and liabilities
• Goodwill (business), concept used to refer to the ability of an individual or business to exert influence within a community, club, market or another type of group often with a gift or a person
• Goodwill Games, a former international sports competition (1986–2000)
• Goodwill Industries, a non-profit organization
• Goodwill Entertainments, an Indian motion picture and distribution company
• Goodwill tour, a tour by someone or something famous to a series of places
• The Goodwill, a post-hardcore band from Long Island, New York formed in 2001
• USS Goodwill (1917), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 or 1918 until the end of 1918

People with the name

• Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, the reigning king of the Zulu nation
• Alfred Goodwill, Louisiana merchant and grandfather of Jasper Goodwill
• Tommy Goodwill (1894–1916), English footballer

Places

Jamaica

• Goodwill, Jamaica a Free Village in Saint James Parish, Jamaica

United States

• Goodwill, Maryland

See also

• Good Will Hunting, a 1997 film directed by Gus Van Sant
• Goodwill ambassador, a person that promotes the goodwill of an organization or state
• Social capital, the goodwill of social groups, in sociology and public health
• Good faith, the mental and moral state of honesty