Looking to donate a car in Alberta? Here’s how…

You have come to the right place if you wish to donate a car in Alberta. We have been serving Alberta charities for over 15 years. Your charity of choice (you read that right: YOU choose the charity!) will never pay a penny for this care. And for you? Well, it just doesn’t get any easier:

1. Click below, or call (1-877-250-4904)
2. Fill in the information form (this is where you’ll choose your Alberta charity, too)
3. Take a call from the towing agent and hand over the car, truck, van, SUV, or motorcycle

Leave the rest to our crew here at Donate a Car!

How do I select my charity?

When you fill in your vehicle information form you will easily see our drop-down list of charities. It is very long list! In fact, we have had some donors tell us that they end up delaying their donation just so that they can take a little extra time to choose carefully.

If you would like to explore charity options before you get started, our charities page can help. Another option? Spend some time on the CanadaHelps website. Their list of Canadian charities is vast — and we are able to serve them all!

Settling an estate (or setting up your own)? Learn more about that, too!

‘Need a little list to get your giving juices flowing? Here are just a handful of the beautiful works you can gift your unused/unwanted vehicle for:

Is it really worth it to donate a car in Alberta?

Absolutely! Alberta car, truck, SUV, van, and motorcycle donors raise thousands of dollars for Canadian causes each year. Your four-wheeled junker can make such a difference! A car in working order? Well…read on…

We may recycle your car: this results in a flat-rate donation determined by what our agent will pay for the vehicle. This can earn your charity hundreds of dollars.

Whenever we can, we have our agents re-sell donated vehicles. This ensures that the charity can receive a gift of thousands of dollars if the car has that kind of value.

Whatever your cause, we are here to serve.

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Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation and you

We first blogged about the ACHF back in 2016. We have had the joy of sharing in this children’s hospital heartwork for years! The car, truck, and van donations of folks like you have been building up for years!

Now? Nine years later and vehicle donors are still seeing their dollars add up…and up…and waaaaay up!

100+ years of Alberta Children’s Hospital Love

The ACH mission is just so big! In 2022, the hospital celebrated a big birthday:

“This year, the Alberta Children’s
Hospital turns 100 years old! It’s a huge
milestone – an opportunity to celebrate
a tremendous history of caring for
children and families, made possible by
our incredibly generous community.

From the start, the hospital set out to
provide the very best care possible
for children. First located in what was
originally a three-storey duplex in
southwest Calgary, the hospital moved
to a second building in lower Mount
Royal seven years later. In 1952, children
began receiving care at the third facility
on Richmond Road. Then, with more
than $50 million in donations from the
public, the current state-of-the-art ‘lego’
hospital opened in 2006 in the city’s
northwest…

The hospital has provided nation-leading
care for kids for decades. For example,
back in the 1950s during the polio
epidemic, children travelled from across
the country for leading-edge treatments
only available in Calgary. That innovation
continues today.”

Gratitude rolls in on 4 wheels

Through rough times and profitable times, car donors have been participating in the caring work at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. The ACH helps our Beloveds. We get that here at Donate a Car. Our own children and other family members have been helped in creative, patient, and courageous ways at the hospital. It’s easy to choose the children’s hospital as a receiving charity when we feel so very thankful for their care.

In the current market we see strong returns on even the scrappiest of scrap cars. $300.00 – $400.00 is ballpark for charities like the ACH when they have an end-of-life car, truck, or van donated on their behalf. We’re working on half a dozen such donations at the time of this writing!

Better yet? We love (love!) to see vehicles put up for re-sale. It is the norm to see a re-sold or auctioned vehicle bring in thousands of donation dollars for a children’s hospital charity!

The Alberta Children’s Hospital shouts out

Just last Fall, the ACH wrote,

“We are updating our Wall of Honour at the Alberta Children’s Hospital and I am pleased to let you know that, thanks to your continued support, Donate a Car is now being recognized in the Guardians category ($250,000 – $499,999) as Donate a Car Canada. During these challenging times, we are extra grateful for the support of community members like you.”

Dear donor, that’s You! You are the “community member” that is an agent of Goodness and hope and practical compassion. That old Camry may be just so much metal and rubber to you at this point. To the charity you love? It could be $100.00, or $800.00, or $13,000.00 giving dollars for a charity like the ACH.

Here’s to another century of grateful giving

These years partnering with children’s hospital donors feels good for our Giving Selves here at Donate a Car. We know that you don’t donate your car in order to get your name printed on a wall. And we don’t do what we do to receive accolades either. But there is a richness in seeing that our time in working alongside each other — you the giver, the hospital as your recipient, and us acting as go-betweens — has a cumulative effect.

The children’s hospital is committed to building their work! Their next 100 years? They have plans to continue personalize care for every child, and to bring that care closer to home. They will seek to empower the best and brightest minds in research. Investing in places and tools that advance child healthcare and research will be key to their work.

Let’s work together and make a mark for practical compassion in children’s healthcare! If that comes in the shape of a steering wheel and some metal on wheels, we are the ones to assist!

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Donate a vehicle for your hospital foundation

2021 brought in some sturdy gifts for children’s hospitals, in particular. In fact, we even had a sailboat donation that brought in over $5,000.00 for the BC Children’s Hospital!

An ’05 Audi landed The Montreal Children’s Hospital a gift of over $2,000.00. A Honda Pilot that we thought might be recycle-ready sold for over $2,700.00 for the Stollery! Furthermore, Jim Pattison’s CHF, a Saskatchewan charity, was the pick of donors across all Western provinces.

Donating to your local hospital in this way is easy. A form takes less than 10 minutes to fill out. We can also take your information over the phone during business hours.

We are heart-and-soul a Canadian company. Moreover, you can choose any Canadian charity to accept your gift.

Donate a Car Canada’s does all of the leg work and accounting for your hospital. Our cheerful agents will either recycle or re-sell your vehicle. Then, your charity will receive the net proceeds of the sale!

How much really goes to my local foundation?

Not only that, your hospital charity of choice does not pay for this giving option. When you donate a car, all of the work is done for your foundation. They simply wait for the eTransfer to arrive at the end of each month!

Every car, truck, van, SUV, and motorcycle is reviewed on its own merits. There are fees involved on the processing end, of course. Our tow guys need to put gas in the tow truck tank. They also need to keep their shops heated. We do need to keep our own home offices humming, too. We’ve been a work from home company since we opened up over 10 years ago (long before it became a COVID necessity). This has always been a cost-saver. This family-owned co. knows how to stretch pennies. Charities receive every dollar possible from every donation!

What are my hospital foundation choices?

We are able to serve any Canadian charitable health/hospital foundation. Here are some of the charities to pick from:

Caring made easy

Visit any of the above-listed charities and find the Ways to Donate option on their sites. Giving where you care is possible in so many creative ways. If giving an unused or unwanted car, truck, SUV, van, or motorcycle is your way, we’re here to help!

‘Need more information? We welcome your call. In fact, we have real people answering calls between 9:00 – 5:00 MST. Reach out to 1-877-250-4904. Our online form is simple, too. If you’re ready to jump on in, just click the red button below and you’ll be on your way.

We’re here to serve you and your local hospital. We look forward to hearing from you!

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