As we do every November 11, today across the country we honor veterans. The anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I, Veterans Day is celebrated across the country with local parades and observances such as banks, businesses and schools closing in honor of the day President Wilson first declared a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace. You might have also heard of Veterans Day refereed to as Armistice Day. Either way, it’s a day we should take to think about all that our veterans have done for us as a country.

When it comes to car donation, Goodwill® is a veteran of vehicle donation, having first accepted car donations back in the late nineteen seventies during our country’s second nation wide oil embargo. As it served the people of this country then by helping them rid themselves of unwanted gas guzzling cars by donating a car, Goodwill® continues to stand by when someone is ready to donate a car to charity. Goodwill® is the leading non-profit provider of employment, training and career services for people who have disabilities or disadvantages. Auto donation is another valuable resource of funds for Goodwill® programs that provide career training that will lead to a job. When you donate a car to Goodwill®, you are helping Goodwill® help someone in the community become free from assistance and become independent. Though many non-profits utilize a vehicle donation program, few play the unique role that Goodwill® does in helping the disabled and disadvantaged build a better life. When you donate a car to Goodwill® your auto donation, whether funding a program or being used in their Wheels to Work program, has the potential to make a difference for someone who wants to change their life.

Today’s economy has proven to be a challenge for anyone looking for a job but for those who are disadvantaged by lack of education, Goodwill® provides the training they need to find employment. When you donate a car to Goodwill® you are helping them to continue the vital training they provide for people who need training to find employment. Goodwill’s® job training assists those who are welfare dependent, homeless or just lacking current job skills.

Your auto donation may also be used for Goodwill’s® Wheels to Work program which provides low cost cars to low income people that means the difference between being able to maintain employment. Today when you honor our country’s veterans, you can also honor an auto donation Veteran when you donate a car to Goodwill®.

It’s almost mid-November and many people who started fall cleanups have finally finished their work. Old, broken items from the basement and attic have long been picked up by the trash men and the leaves have been bagged up and taken away. The lawn furniture that enjoyed fresh air and sun all summer sits covered with a tarp or perhaps packed away in the garage. Fall clean ups take a lot of time and most us agree we have very little extra time to spare these days. It’s always a lot of work cleaning up yards, garages and the places inside the house that only get cleaned out once every few years. If you find yourself short on time and energy and have a car you no longer need or want, consider donating a car to charity. Car donation has become an important resource for charities across the country, helping them to keep their missions and services available to the people of the communities they serve.

If you have a car you no longer need because you have bought a new one, you could consider trading it in at a dealership. But oftentimes trading in your car is another time consuming task since you will no doubt spend hours first finding your new car. Then consider the time spent on paperwork and haggling for the ‘best offer’ when you are ready to trade your car in. When you donate a car to charity to save lots of time since you don’t get bogged down in endless paperwork. When you donate a car to charity you save energy because it doesn’t require any legwork. It’s simple to donate a car. You need only have to make one call and say “donate my car” and a charity that works with auto donation will take care of the paperwork for you. Most charities that work with vehicle donation also offer to pick up your car donation so you won’t even have to go anywhere. So if you find yourself short on time and energy, you can save a little of both to do something you would rather be doing by donating a car to charity.

This year Goodwill® partnered with Levi Strauss & Co. in what they call “A Care Tag for Our Planet”. The non-profit and clothing giant aim to keep billions of pounds of unwanted clothing out of the landfills and into the hands of those who need them. Levi Strauss jeans will include a message on a product care tag encouraging people to donate their unwanted clothing.

The group effort is the first of its kind made to increase the life cycle of clothing and textiles and address the roughly 23.8 billion pounds of clothing that end up in landfills each year.

This recycling program will recover the value in unwanted material goods and fund community based services provided by Goodwill®. This ground breaking partnership is just one example of how Goodwill® encourages recycling of goods to fund their employment, training and career services. Goodwill® has long used auto donation as part of their means to obtaining funds to keep their vital services available to people with disabilities and disadvantages. When you donate a car to Goodwill® you are partnering with a hundred year old organization that helps the disabled and disadvantaged better their lives.

Goodwill® was the pioneer in auto donation starting in the late seventies when they would accept car donations from people eager to rid themselves of gas guzzling vehicles. Auto donation then was a way for people to save money and today Goodwill® uses car donation as a mean of recycling usable cars for their Wheels to Work program. As they encourage people to recycle clothing with their new partnership, Goodwill® encourages anyone with an unwanted car to donate a car to their program. When you donate a car to Goodwill®, a reusable car can be recycled by selling it to low income people who need affordable cars to obtain or keep their jobs. With your donated auto Goodwill® can help people with disabilities and disadvantages better their lives and gain independence. It’s easy to partner with Goodwill® and their vehicle donation program simply by donating a car you no longer want. If you find yourself with a new car it’s easy and quick to donate a car to Goodwill® and help Goodwill® help people with disabilities and disadvantages.

2009 has been a rough year. We have watched the economy plummet. It seems everyone knows of someone who has lost their job. We’ve seen homes across the country with foreclosure signs staked in the front lawns. It’s become an every man for himself situation where people are struggling just to take care of ‘their own’. Philanthropy, defined as the effort to promote the happiness or social elevation of mankind by making donations, has also been greatly affected by the country’s economy. When the economy is down, typically donors hold on to more of their money until ‘next year’ and would be donors rethink about donating altogether. The holiday season is approaching, a time when many people feel benevolent toward mankind. You can be a philanthropist when you donate a car to charity. Today many charities count on car donation to continue their missions. If you have a car you no longer need, you can feel like a a philanthropist when you pick up the phone and say ‘donate my car’ to a charity like Goodwill® that depneds on auto donation.

Goodwill® has long been considered the pioneer of auto donation having started accepting car donation back in the late seventies during the country’s second nationwide oil embargo. Goodwill® extended a hand to those who no longer could afford to keep their gas guzzling vehicles by accepting their car donation. Today Goodwill® continues to look toward vehicle donation as a means of reaching out to people with their unique employment, training and career services. Goodwill® stores span across the country, but when you donate a used car to Goodwill® you are helping them to continue the work they do in communities across the country. When you donate a car to charity like Goodwill® they are able to help the disabled and disadvantaged find meaningful employment and get a second chance in life. Goodwill® has been training people with disabilities and disadvantages for more than a hundred years. Though the country continues to trudge through tough economic times, you can continue Goodwill’s® legacy of philanthropy when you donate a car.

In many of today’s papers a grim milestone for the country was reached as the jobless rate for October soared above ten percent. It’s the first time since the eighties that the rate has hit that high and no doubt the pressure will be on Washington to get moving on job creation. History has always shown that job growth lags significantly behind economic growth but despite the fact that it was reported the economy had begun growing again in the summer, the high rate of unemployment is of concern to everyone. At a time when people from all walks of life are competing for jobs, it’s vital that Goodwill® continues to help the disadvantaged find jobs through their training, employment and career services. In addition to the infamous Goodwill® stores throughout the country, auto donation remains a viable means of funding these vital programs. With job opportunities few and far between, when you donate a car to Goodwill® you are funding training for people who would otherwise not even be able to compete for work that might be out there.

Goodwill® is North America’s leading non-profit provider of education, training and career services for the disadvantaged and disabled. Today with many people in dire straits due to the economy, such as welfare dependency, homelessness or lack of education, Goodwill® uses car donation as a means of funding programs that help people find a job and become welfare free.

Vehicle donation is used by many non-profit groups but Goodwill® pioneered the concept of using car donation back in the nineteen seventies during the country’s second oil embargo. Today Goodwill® continues to seek people who can donate a car to charity to help people with disabilities get career training that leads to their independence. For people who are unable to afford a car to get or maintain a job, Goodwill® needs people to donate a car for their Wheels to Work program. The Wheels to Work program offers affordable cars so that people can find a job or meet the transportation demands of the job they already have. As unemployment rates soar, Goodwill® needs your car donation more than ever in order that the disabled or disadvantaged can compete in the shrinking job market.

Janie Marsh’s story stands out at Goodwill’s® website. For years Janie was living in the woods, a drug addict and alcoholic who also got in trouble with the law. After completing a drug program in prison, she worried about how she would find a job. Even Janie knew that it would be tough to find a company that would hire her with her background. Upon Janie’s release she was told to sign up for the Goodwill® Job Connection program in her area. Through Goodwill’s® job Connection program she found her first job in years, working in landscaping. After only two weeks of leaving prison, Janie was working. That job gave Janie the confidence to decide to pursue a college education in landscape architecture. Janie’s story is nothing at Goodwill®. One of the many ways that Goodwill® can offer vital programs like the Goodwill® Job Connection is through auto donation. When you donate a car to charity like Goodwill® you are helping Goodwill® to help others turn their lives around. Auto donation is just one way Goodwill® raises funds to keep their education, training and career services running.

The economy has affected everyone in one way or another. At a time when jobs are few and scarce, it’s even harder for someone who has experienced disadvantages, like Janie, to get a new start. Non-profits such as Goodwill® continue to reach out to their communities but in order to do so they need people who can donate a car to help them. You don’t need money to help Goodwill® help others out. If you have a car that you no longer want or need, you can reach out to someone less fortunate than yourself when you donate a car to Goodwill®. There are ads everywhere that call out for auto donation but few organizations reach out to people with disabilities or disadvantages as Goodwill® does. Goodwill® is a charity that you can feel good about when you decide to donate a car to them. Auto donation is not new to Goodwill®, who has been accepting car donation since the late seventies. Goodwill® is the leader in providing education, training and career services to those who are disabled and disadvantaged. In order that they can find employment. When you are ready to donate a car to charity, donate a car to Goodwill® and help Goodwill® help others turn their lives around like Janie did.

Last Night the Yankees rocked New York fans with a 7-3 win over the Phillies in what is now their 27^th World Series win. The New York Yankees may be the World Series Champions but Goodwill® is a champion of good causes. Goodwill® depends on auto donation to fund their many vital programs that serve communities throughout the country. At a time when many people could no longer afford their gas guzzling vehicles during the late seventies, Goodwill® was there for the people ready when people asked them to ‘donate my car’. Car donation helped those people be free of cars that cost them too much to keep. Now Goodwill® uses vehicle donation as a means of helping people who are disabled or disadvantaged find ways to earn a living through their education, training and career services.

Goodwill® is the pioneer of auto donation and today continues to seek people who want to donate a car to charity. When you donate a car to Goodwill® they are able to sell your auto donation at full value enabling them to put those funds into helping people with disabilities find meaningful work and purpose. Though many organizations are using auto donation as a means to fund their causes, Goodwill® needs you to donate an auto to continue the work of their Wheels to Work program. When you donate a used car, your auto donation may be a car that can be offered to people who are struggling with a low income and cannot otherwise find an affordable car. The Wheels to Work program depends on auto donation to keep meeting the needs of people who without this program would not be able to obtain or keep employment. Goodwill® has been working with auto donation for more than thirty years and when you donate a car to Goodwill® you can be sure that your auto donation goes right to those who need it. Goodwill® proudly lets people know that eighty four percent of funds raised through their vehicle donation program goes directly to those they serve. When you donate a car to a champion of good causes you can feel good knowing that you are helping Goodwill® help someone else.

When you think of Goodwill® most likely a Goodwill® store may come to mind. Goodwill® stores first began in 1902 when a minister named Edgar J. Helms started collecting household goods and clothing in wealthy areas and then trained and hired those who were poor and disadvantaged to repair the used goods. The goods were then resold or given to the people who repaired them. Today Goodwill® has over 2300 stores across the country that serve as the backbone of the foundation. Goodwill® often partners with other organizations and businesses in order to help further serve the people that they reach out to. In addition to partnering with retail businesses in the past, such as Bon Ton, Goodwill® has partnered with the Lions to collect and recycle old eyeglasses. This valuable partnership will enable people around the world to experience better vision that enables them to read, get an education, gain employment and therefore take care of their families. You don’t have to be a retailer or famous organization to partner with Goodwill®. Goodwill® is the leading provider of employment, training and career services for people with disabilities or disadvantages and auto donation also provides a means of funds to keep their valuable programs running. When you donate a car to charity like Goodwill® you are helping Goodwill® continue their mission of helping people with disabilities or disadvantages.

You have probably seen dozens of signs or newspaper ads asking for you donate a car. Many nonprofit groups today have found that auto donation is a viable means of funding their causes. However, Goodwill® is the pioneer in vehicle donations and was the first non profit to accept when people in the seventies needed to say ‘donate my car ’ because they could no longer afford to keep gas guzzling vehicles. Goodwill® is proud of the fact that eighty-four percent of the funds they raise go directly into their vital job training and employment placement programs. Goodwill’s® mission adheres to its founder’s vision when he trained and employed poor people to repair used goods. Today Goodwill® continues to train the disadvantaged enabling them to obtain employment. When you donate a car to Goodwill®, use the donated auto in their Wheels to Work program which helps low income individuals find an affordable car to help them obtain employment or stayed employed.

Across the country today is the first Tuesday in November. It’s Election Day. Though this year these are general elections, one in which presidential candidates are not on the ballot, it is still important to show up and vote. General elections usually include state and local government offices and across the country candidates have been campaigning actively. Just as political candidates campaign actively for the causes they believe in, we as people can campaign for a good cause when we donate a car. Though we may take getting in our car in the morning and heading to work for granted, there are many who aren’t so fortunate. When you donate a car to charity like Goodwill® , you can help someone who needs a car get into one when you donate a used car. Though, just as Election Day will take place in states across the country, many organizations are working with vehicle donation programs to fund their services, Goodwill® offers the people they serve even more through auto donation.

Goodwill® is the leader when it comes to vehicle donation, a program they pioneered in the late nineteen seventies during the country’s second oil embargo. Just as they helped people by taking gas guzzling cars off their hands then with auto donation, today they reach out to those who need a car in order to find employment and better their lives. When you donate a car to charity like Goodwill® your car donation might possibly be used for their Wheels to Work program. This vital program, funded by people who donate a car, connects people with low incomes with an affordable vehicle that means they can obtain employment. Goodwill’s® auto donation program has helped people build confidence, independence and a new life.

If you have a car that is taking up space on your property or in your garage, you can be sure that when you donate a car to Goodwill® , the money goes directly into the vital programs that Goodwill® offers communities across the nation. In addition to Wheels to Work, Goodwill® is the leading nonprofit provider of education, training and career services. Auto donation helps keep Goodwill’s® belief that ‘everyone deserves a chance’ going by helping people challenged whether by disabilities or disadvantages reach their fullest potential. This Election Day is the perfect time to cast more than a vote when you donate a car to charity.

Last night was Game 4 of the World Series and baseball lovers across the country watched from the television sets to see what would happen. The Yankees have the lead, having won 3 out of the 4 games but tonight is Game 5 so there’s no telling what might happen. If you want to feel like a winner you don’t need to be a part of the national baseball league. You can team up today with Goodwill® when you donate a car to charity. The used car that’s been lingering in your yard, garage or driveway is a sure hit when you donate a car like that to Goodwill®. Vehicle donation has become an important resource for Goodwill®. When you donate a car to Goodwill® they are able to use the proceeds from the sale of your donated car to fund what they do – help people with disabilities and disadvantages gain vital career skills.

Though many charities today are working with auto donation, Goodwill® is the pioneer in vehicle donations dating back to the nineteen seventies when they accepted the gas guzzling vehicles that people no longer wanted. When you donate a car to Goodwill® your vehicle will be resold at full value to support many important programs such as job training and placement. Auto donation is also how Goodwill® is able to sell low income vehicles to people with disabilities and disadvantages through their Wheels to Work program. When people with disadvantages are able to find an affordable car through auto donation, they are able to find employment and better their lives. When you donate a car to Goodwill® you help the people of Goodwill® to help those who need to change their lives. Goodwill® helps build confidence and independence. It’s simple to donate a car to charity. If you have wondered how to find a reputable charity that accepts vehicle donation, Goodwill® is a name that everyone recognizes. You can feel like a winner today without lifting a bat. Donate a car to charity like Goodwill® and team up with a winning organization.