General Motors CEO donates his 1958 Corvette to help Detroit Habitat for Humanity
General Motors CEO Dan Akerson plans to give up his 1958 Chevrolet Corvette to help rehabilitate a Detroit neighborhood. Akerson and his wife, Karin, are donating the vehicle for an auction to benefit Habitat for Humanity Detroit’s efforts to improve the Morningside...
Car donations drive our mission’s success
By Krysta Morgenthaler, Habitat for Humanity East Bay/Silicon Valley vice president of development and communications Honk your horn if you love Habitat! Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, we’re honking our horns to thank our generous donors for making Habitat East...
Interview with the CEO of Car Donation Wizard
Our Partner, Car Talk, recently sat down with Car Donation Wizard's CEO, Joseph Hearn to discuss the vehicle donation space. Check out the article below! The Many Ways Car Talk Sells Your Car Last week, Car Talk talked with Joe Hearn, the CEO of Advanced Remarketing...
Old Cars Among Earth’s Chief Offenders
Let's focus on getting the dirtiest cars off our roads. According to the Environmental Defense Fund, cars in the U.S. emit more than 333 million tons of carbon dioxide on an annual basis, an amount equal to one-fifth of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions. The...
Car Donation Helps Fight Back Against Cancer
New Report Tracks Growing Population of Cancer Survivors in the US A first-ever report by the American Cancer Society – in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute – estimates there are 13.7 million cancer survivors alive in the US today, and that number will...
A Collection of Donated Cars in Honor of the Olympics
We're pretty excited about the 2012 London Olympics over here at Car Donation Wizard. We send our sincerest wishes out to all the athletes competing in hopes that they all have safe and exciting performances. In honor of the opening ceremonies tonight, we thought...
New Partner: Children’s Wishes
We are proud to partner with Children's Wishes of RI, based out of Warwick, Rhode Island. Children's Wishes is an organization that focuses on granting wishes to children under the age of 18 who are facing life-threatening medical illnesses or long treatments. Some...
The Life Cycle of Recycled Building Materials
Last April, Sarah Proctor and her husband Dick decided to tear down the home they shared in Raleigh, N.C. for more than 25 years. While the couple loved the neighborhood, their 1928 home was falling into disrepair and becoming increasingly difficult to live in as...
How Efficient is Vehicle Donation Recycling?
By Tom Watson Many of us have vivid memories of visiting a muddy auto junkyard to find parts for an old car or truck. Junkyards persevere, but in recent years additional alternatives have emerged for dealing with old cars. No matter what indignities they've suffered,...
UNICEF’s Promise: ZERO by 2035
ZERO by 2035 The Child Survival Call to Action forum in Washington, D.C. was an incredible moment. A remarkable coalition of governments, the private sector, and UNICEF came together and committed to ending preventable childhood deaths by 2035. Representatives from...