BOB MALLONCHAIRMAN EMERITUS, NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE DEALERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
"I've always felt what a great thing this foundation is for the recipients of foundation dollars and for the industry at large. Dealers can take great pride in this."
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Here are some of the activities of the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation.
- Emergency Relief Fund. Helps dealership employees after emergencies, natural disasters. Has given more than $5 million to about 8,700 individuals since 1992.
- CPR training. The foundation has donated more than 4,800 CPR training units, which are handed out by local dealers.
- Frank E. McCarthy Memorial Fund. Provides service dogs through Canine Companions for Independence to children with disabilities, wounded veterans. Has donated more than $250,000 and placed 25 dogs.
- Joseph J. Sanchez Memorial Fund. Awards $7,000 a year in emergency assistance to students at 4 private colleges or universities.
- Survivors Relief Fund. Provides scholarship aid to children of 9/11 victims. Has provided almost $800,000 in total to 139 students.
When floodwater ravaged parts of Baton Rouge, La., in August, NADA President Peter Welch and Annette Sykora, chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Chari-table Foundation, wasted no time traveling to the affected area to gauge the needs of dealership employees. Through the foundation's Emergency Relief Fund, $685,000 has been distributed to 560 employees.
