Goodwin is dedicated to providing Australians with high quality aged care services and accommodation across the ACT through experience-driven developments in independent living villages, reliable in-home community care, and pioneering enhance residential aged care facility standards. Goodwin is a community-based, not for profit organisation founded in 1954 when a group of Canberra citizens met to "launch a scheme for a housing settlement for aged people in Canberra". Now the organisation manages 449 independent living units and 360 aged care places across three sites in the ACT with assets of over $350 million dollars. Goodwin is governed by a skills based Board of Directors and managed by a senior executive team and general managers with qualifications and experience in business, health and aged care, construction, project management and government. Staff are committed to Goodwin's mission, values and vision and are dedicated to the continual improvement of aged care practices across Australia.