How Much Money or Time Do You Put Into Your Car Before It’s Time to Give it Up
How much money and time are you spending to keep your car running? When do you throw in the towel and call it a liability? According to Suze Orman, the financial expert, it’s smart to keep your car for as long as possible. The main thing is that you spend as little as possible in […]
Is it Towers or Towers?
Towers: at Kars4Kids it’s not the place where Rapunzel let down her hair, and it’s not that leaning edifice in Pisa. At Kars4Kids, “towers” is pronounced with a long o, and it’s the word we use at Kars4Kids to describe the wonderful people who tow away our donors’ cars. Sure, we know that tow truck […]
2003 Hummer Donation Sells for $10,000!
The Hummer series of powerful all-terrain SUVs: They’re out of production, but thanks to our generous donors, they’re still having an impact, and raising money (lots of money!) for charity. An orange 2003 H2 (see pictures), donated by a philanthropic Ohioan, recently sold for a cool $10k at auction. With our impressively minimal administrative costs, […]
Don Imus and the Kars4Kids Hot Mic Moment
Don Imus, controversial American radio personality, television show host, recording artist, and author, died in 2019. But not before he had a run in with Kars4Kids over a hot mic moment during a commercial break. It was 2010 and Kars4Kids was a sponsor of his show, Imus in the Morning. When the iconic jingle began […]
Amazing Things Happen Every Day at Kars4Kids
As related by one of our customer service representatives: An adult facility had just upgraded to a new courtesy shuttle bus. The facility was looking to donate their current bus, which was still in good condition. The program director, who had heard about one of our many Kars4Kids programs, gave us a call to see […]
#DriveHuman With This Advice From Dr. Driving
Professor Leon James is the go-to guy for anything you want to know about driving psychology—so much so that he’s known as Dr. Driving. A professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, James has given 1,500 interviews to the media since 1997. That being the case, those of us at Kars4Kids figured there’d be […]