Across the country thousands of young adults have graduated from college. While the recession has made finding that first post college job more challenging than generations before, many graduates have relentlessly pursued jobs and succeeded. An acquaintance from town recently told of how his neighbor’s young son had graduated and landed a job in a city where he would be able to take advantage of public transportation. He talked about how happy he and his wife would be to get his son’s ‘old clunker’ out of their driveway. It was the perfect time to donate a car to charity.
It would be more economical for his son to just jump on the morning train. However, he wasn’t sure what to do with the car. One thing was for sure: he did not want it lying around in his already crowded driveway and he certainly couldn’t just leave it sitting out on the street. Parking in his neighborhood was tight already. This acquaintance brought up vehicle donation. “Donate a car?” the neighbor asked. “Donate a used car?” he said again. He hadn’t even considered auto donation until that conversation.
The American Red Cross is a community driven organization. The goal of their many diverse programs is making communities stronger. When you think Red Cross you may picture blood mobiles that actively collect blood donations. However, the Red Cross strives to bring relief to those caught up in fire, floods and other calamities across the country. They aren’t just there when disaster hits; they work to teach how to prevent calamity as well. Today the Red Cross depends greatly on vehicle donation to fund its many lifesaving programs. When you or anyone else donates a car to charity such as the American Red Cross, the funds from the sale of that car fund the organization’s programs. Every auto donation means that they can reach out a little bit further into the community.
So for parents and graduates alike who find themselves with an ‘old clunker’ or first car that they no longer will be driving, for whatever reason, the Red Cross is the answer to your prayers – and you to theirs.
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