Some 31,000 winter coats made their way into the arms of happy youngsters in October, the gifts of car dealers across the region who made promises to ADAGP – Automobile Dealers Association of Greater Philadelphia – and its Auto Dealers CARing for Kids Foundation.
Shown at the Central Bucks Family YMCA among cartons holding 650 children’s winter coats are Maryann Bianco, Fred Beans; Beth Beans Gilbert; Jim Craig, Keystone Motors; Rosemarie Molyneux, CB Family Y; Melissa Moyer, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bucks County; Barbara Beans; Mark Donahue, Fred Beans; Ursula Raczak, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bucks County; Brian Nesbitt, Raphael Horowitz and Phil Calvert, Fred Beans; David Penske, ADAGP volunteer. Credit: Anne Biggs
As part of the group’s Driving Away the Cold program, area dealers pledged to buy a brand new winter coat for an underprivileged child each time they sold a vehicle in September. On Tuesday, October 15, a crowd of Central Bucks dealerships’ representatives were on hand to unload 650 of the coats at the Central Bucks Family YMCA to distribute to local children in need.
Fred Beans Family of Dealerships pledged a total of 750 coats to be given away in the southeastern Pennsylvania and Hunterdon County, N.J., communities where the automotive organization operates its 15 dealerships.
In the six years of the Driving Away the Cold initiative, around 175 ADAGP member auto dealers have purchased more than 140,000 coats for underprivileged kids in the five-county region of Philadelphia.
To learn more about the Auto Dealers CARing for Kids Foundation: www.CARingforKids.com
