The annual pumpkin drop at Blue Grass Nursery was a smashing success. For 16 years the garden shop, joined by XL 103.1, has raised funds for charity by dropping pumpkins. This year Donate a Car Canada was able to join in the festivities.
Sunny skies and warm Autumn air drew a big crowd to the nursery. Three pumpkins, weighing in between 300 - 1200 pounds, were dropped in turn.
One of Donate a Car Canada's supporting tow agents helped Blue Grass out with delivery of two crush-ready cars. Cars, cranes, fireworks, and plummeting pumpkins! It was a massive coming together of skills, physics, and splatter.
Countdown to Smashing Pumpkins
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Gifting Alberta Children's Hospital
The Alberta Children's Hospital will be the recipient of funds raised at this year's event. Last year's gift to the ACH was $30,000. We're excited to hear how our joint efforts came together in 2019.
Factory Theatre has grit. Donate a Car Canada is proud to partner with charities big and small. FT is one of our lesser-known groups. We are excited to say a bit more about them.
Factory Theatre has vision
From its founding in 1970 FT has held a commitment to Canadian stories. Their play house is a heritage building that now houses the 50-year old company.
New work and play development are at the heart of Factory's vision. Factory's role is to boldly bring new Canadian voices to the stage. They do so with courage and resolve. Some voices are bound to be unfamiliar and challenging. FT's goal is for the expression of those voices to give the audience pause for reflective questions and critical thinking.
Theatre as an authentic challenge – theatre with grit.
Celebrating 50 years on stage
Artistic director, Nina Lee Aquino, notes the Factory's 50th,
"will celebrate its illustrious and resilient history with...the return of two iconic Canadian classics that premiered at Factory." And "it will bring three thrilling and immersive stories from Newfoundland, Calgary, and British Columbia to Toronto audiences."
Each of this season's shows represents a connection to all that Factory has accomplished under past Artistic Directors. These have impacted Canadian theatre. Factory’s 19/20 Season is a celebration of where they've been, where they might be headed, and where they want to be. "All the while remaining fiercely Canadian."
Heading to the factory?
Factory Theatre has a robust offering of entertainment and ticket purchase options. Check out their 2019/2020 season for the package that best suits your and yours. A great option for Christmas gifting!
Is this a group you can get behind? 'Have a car you're ready to donate? Consider Factory Theatre as your chosen gift recipient!
One of Canada’s largest single-breed rescue groups, GR is a charity run entirely by volunteers. Since 1990, the have found homes for 3,174 surrendered, abandoned, unwanted, or displaced Retrievers.
Golden Rescue has no paid staff. They have no offices, and no high admin expenses. They do, however, have over 500 dedicated volunteers throughout Ontario and Quebec, and beyond.One hundred percent of the money they raise goes to helping the dogs. Around 80% of those funds go to vet care and behavioral training.
Ned’s Wish received their first-time gift in August as well.
NW supports law enforcement by providing financial support to better the quality of life for K-9 retirees. After human police officers finish serving their communities, their pension funds support them. Due to the cost of health care for retired police dogs, the potential to enjoy retirement can literally rest on a dime. A dog’s quality of life can be significantly reduced, or even cut-short if health costs are too high.
Ned's provides financial support for retired K-9 medical well-being. They preserve and enhance the quality of life for retired police dogs.
Your retired car can help
If these Golden Retrievers and retired police dogs have your attention, donate your car, truck, van, SUV, or motorcycle! It's quick, easy, and so very generous!
They bring music therapy to rural, urban and remote communities. Their work brings music programs to people on the autism spectrum, and to those living with Alzheimer’s disease. Further, they engage those challenged by anxiety and depression. CMTF also reaches people rehabilitating speech or motor skills, as well as those needing pre- and post-natal care. And they don't stop there. Living with a brain injury? They can help!
Canadian Music Therapy Fund
CMTF does this by awarding grants, scholarships and fellowships to innovative certified music therapists. As a result, these therapist are then empowered! They use their talents and skill to make music therapy accessible close to home.
Work that matters
The Science is in: music therapy works. That said, music therapy is not a widely recognized form of therapy. Private insurance and government programs do not typically fund such care. This means that if you can't pay for it, you cannot access it.
Music therapy helps us to move and communicate. It helps us to cope, and to better understand ourselves. It can even inspire us to reach our full potential. CMTF wants to make music therapy available to anyone who needs it.
Together, they are transforming lives. With your support, access to music therapy for all Canadians is possible!
Help the CMTF hit the high notes
Donate your car through our program today and choose our charity of the month as your donation recipient!
"Choose my charity." That's one of our donor wishes. Did you know that each month Donate a Car Canada signs more charities up for our vehicle donation program? Canada has hundreds of registered charities. And they're hearing the word: they can earn monetary gifts through vehicle donation.
In the month of July we added 12 more charities to our list! That means Canadian donors have even more choices for giving. If you have a vehicle to donate, you can select any charity from the 800+ we have on board. Your vehicle is processed for re-sale or recycling. The net outcome of the sale is forwarded, in monetary form, to your charity.
You can see from our newest participants that your donation is all about the cause you love. We touch into health, wellbeing, animal care, community concerns, and more. Our donation dollars are precious to us; the freedom to select who will be the recipient is key to a satisfactory giving moment.
Does giving in this way sound like a good fit for you? Take a few minutes on our site, visit our Facebook or Twitter feeds, or give us a call. We can answer specific questions, or get you set up for a free tow.
We can even help you find a charity that speaks to a cause you care about (even if you don't know the name of the organization). Some folks call in to ask which charity needs their gift the most. That's a tough question for us to answer! But we can certainly work with you to determine what cause might best fit your donation dollars.
"Acts of kindness" has lost some of its punch as a collection of words, but the acts themselves have not.
Kindness is one of Donate a Car Canada's core values. We are a locally owned and operated business. So, we have overhead costs and need to earn enough money to keep the doors open. The women that take your calls and compassionately field your donations need to feed their kiddos! And having a key value of kindness behind it all makes doing this important work rewarding.
Tucker's collection of stories championing individual and community efforts of caring invite us to tackle kindness in big and small ways. In fact, the limits to how we extend this basic human dignity are only limited by imagination.
The Reader's Digest Who's Who
Rebecca notes 9 groups and individuals who have made a difference in their own unique ways:
Stella Bowles of Upper LaHave, N.S: Eco-Hero! She took it upon her 11-year-old self (she's a teen, now) to investigate and address pollution in the LaHave River.
Staff at the York Care Centre, a Fredericton retirement facility, immediately circled in to support one of their own who had been victimized by a violent crime.
Milestone, Saskatchewan farmers banded together to pull in a community member's crops when hard times fell on the family.
Larissa Arthur, an RN heading home from a mountain hike, saved Mike Estepa's life. He'd collapsed of a heart attack on a bicycle trek, and she happened upon him just in time.
Three crab fishers from St. Lewis, N.L. pulled off a dramatic Arctic Fox rescue. Fishing the little guy in from where he was stuck on the ice, they nurtured him to health and set him free.
Rebecca Schofield (#BeccaToldMeTo) gave her dying days to spreading a message of acts of kindess in even the smallest things, like, "opening doors, buying coffee for strangers, giving out granola bars at the gym."
Frank Vieira received the Goodyear Highway Hero Award for a dramatic roadside rescue.
Andrew Harper, a 95 year-old philanthropist seeking to honor his beloved late wife, made an unprecedented financial contribution to the Chez Doris women's day shelter.
Kyle Busquine, Julio Cabrera, and Jehangir Faisal exhibited the stuff of superheros, jumping on the tracks to rescue a fallen man.
What's your next kindness contribution?
So many ways to share the best of who we are. At any time. In any place. I don't have $1 million dollars to gift to a women's shelter, but I do have $5.00. I haven't the energy in this ol' body to save a river, but I can pick up the trash I see on my daily walks. And, even on the tired and overwhelming and "What the goodness is going on in this crazy world!?" days, I can offer dignity and respect to every heart I encounter.
To all who will show me kindness today (I don't even know who you are, yet!), thank you. I will do my part to keep kindness going, too.
Clean yards make good neighbors. Are you and your fellow townsfolk starting to see a build-up of old cars and trucks in town? Are your town's driveways and back alleys getting cluttered with recycle-ready (donation-ready!) vehicles. It's time for a Fall clean up! We can help!
Donate a Car Canada, cooperating with area tow companies, will arrange to have your vehicle removed. For free! Your charity of choice will receive a donation in the amount of net sale proceeds. You can choose from our list of over 800 Canadian charities.
But why stop with your own car or truck? Get the town behind a Fall clean up and get a donation day or week organized on your behalf. You could see your town junk car free overnight.
Are you in charge?
Are you one of the folks in town that have taken on the care of your patch of Canada? Donate a Car Canada can make a town Fall clean up easy and cost-effective. How would this work? Simply connect with us here (1-877-250-4904) to let us know you're setting up a town-wide effort.
We'll give you a few easy directions:
Promote your event. Let residents know they have the opportunity to donate their vehicles to charity. They'll receive tax receipts for the donations, and they can choose their charities. All for free! A little aside: if you opt, as a town, to select one charity to receive all donations, your impact will be substantial for that one recipient. That's one more way to create community.
Ask your residents to fill in our online donation form, indicating on the form that they are donating their vehicle for pick-up during your town event. We need one donation form for each vehicle. This ensures tax receipts are issued properly, and that vehicle ownership is appropriately logged.
Leave the rest to us! Our pick-up agents will contact donors to specify pick-up times and locations. The vehicles will be removed. And we will forward each individual gift on to each donor's charity of choice.
Curious citizen ready to get things rolling?
If you're a citizen who cares about the tidiness and care of your community, we can help with that, too. As noted above, reach out to us at 1-877-250-4904. Point us in the direction of the right person for the job. We will connect with your town council or other municipal leaders to let them know that a citizen has requested a town-wide Fall clean up of donation ready cars and trucks.
Or spearhead the work yourself, getting the word out that the Donate a Car Canada service and our vast charity-of-choice options are available to you all.
Contact us today and let us help you and your town clean up and feel great!
We're excited to announce that the Jessica Martel Memorial Foundation has received their first donation through Donate a Car. Moreover, they are all set with our program and ready to receive your vehicle donation, too.
Farming Smarter here to sustain our land, water, and soil. They are here for farmers -- for the benefit of everyone.
Farming Smarter is growing stewardship
Farming Smarter fosters sustainable farming practices. For example, wherever they can, they will partner, research, and inform. They support cost effective projects that are good for the land, air, water and crops.
Currently working in Southern Alberta, their Innovative projects include:
High value specialty crops
Precision planting canola
Cover crops across Prairie Canada
Alternative flee beetle management without neonicotinoids. What is a flee beetle? And why do they matter? Here's what the FS site has to say: Flea beetles are one of the major canola pests in Alberta. Currently neonicotinoid-based seed treatments are used to protect canola seedlings from flea beetle damage. PMRA's direction to phase out the use of neonicotinoids has caused concern for growers. Without these seed treatments different controls must be considered by growers. These may be alternate seed treatment, increased seeding rates, or foliar insecticides. These activities may have negative environmental consequences. Furthermore, they may be less helpful than current strategies and they will incur higher costs.
Curious? Check out their summer events:
Farming Smarter invites you to a summer of field school and "plot hops." You may also want to explore their farm days and learning options.
Many people don’t realize that F.S. is a registered Canadian charity. They are a non-profit funded by grants, sponsorship, and donations. Above all, money given to them stays in southern Alberta and funds locally directed farm focused research.
Your donation to this work could help them do your most critical agricultural research.
In short, if this resonates with your own values and concerns, we can help! Donate your car, truck, SUV, van, or motorcycle. The net proceeds will go to the cause you love. And you will clear the driveway, too!
It is quick, easy, and friendly! You are one click away...
You have Our Gratitude
Thank you Bram from Chestermere for donating a 2003 Mercedes E-320 to Calgary Humane Society
Thank you Tate from Calgary for donating a 2008 Nissan Versa to Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation
Thank you GEORGE from Ashton for donating a 2008 Toyota Avalon to Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa Foundation
Thank you Ardelia from Abbotsford for donating a 2010 Volkswagen EOS to Archway Community Services
Thank you Jeffrey from Winnipeg for donating a 2015 Chevrolet Cruze LS to Siloam Mission
Thank you Kathy from Kitchener for donating a 2006 Honda CR-V EX-L to Waterloo Regional Health Network Foundation
Thank you Deborah from Burlington for donating a 2013 Kia Rio to Ian Anderson House Foundation
Thank you Rebecca from Sarnia for donating a 2001 Chrysler Neon to Global Harvest Ministries International
Thank you Kenneth from Milton for donating a 2000 Kawasaki E5D to Alzheimer Society of Brant Haldimand Norfolk Hamilton Halton
Thank you Shala from Vernon for donating a 2013 Ford Fiesta to Habitat for Humanity Okanagan
Thank you Kellan from London for donating a 2004 Dodge Sprinter T1N to Animal Outreach - Cedar Row
Thank you Wendy from Caledon for donating a 2010 Mercedes ML 350 bluetec awd to Habitat for Humanity Heartland Ontario
Thank you Zdzislaw from Waskatenau for donating a 1990 Ford F150 to Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation
Thank you David G from Bracebridge for donating a 2005 Saturn Vue to First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada
Thank you Pamela from Ottawa for donating a 2011 Hyundai Elantra Touring to
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