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Ford makes use of its dealership empire to revamp how company America helps charities

Editorial Board Published June 17, 2025
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Ford is activating its nationwide community of dealerships to straight help among the nation’s largest nonprofits, such because the American Purple Cross, Feeding America, Habitat for Humanity and Workforce Rubicon. 

As a part of Ford Philanthropy’s “Building Together” initiative, which kicked off in June, the auto firm is leveraging sources throughout its group from its vehicles, workers and sellers, to assist these organizations make a tangible affect. Ford Philanthropy is the worldwide philanthropic arm of Ford. 

As a part of the hassle, dealerships will host blood donation drives for the American Purple Cross, accumulate meals for native meals banks in Feeding America’s community in addition to pre-owned instruments and supplies for Habitat ReStores. Some dealerships may even host free catastrophe preparedness workshops led by Workforce Rubicon. 

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Along with on-the-ground efforts, Ford is donating $7 million to the 4 nonprofits to additional help their missions.

Mary Culler, president of Ford Philanthropy, instructed FOX Enterprise that 75 activations are underway all through the nation. Culler mentioned dealerships in Michigan have already launched blood drives and dealerships in Texas are serving to Feeding America with meals distribution. In Minnesota, sellers are working with Habitat for Humanity, and out in Colorado, the place they’ve loads of wildfires, they’re internet hosting coaching classes to assist residents “really understand how you actually show up when there’s a crisis,” Culler mentioned.  

Ford volunteers and Workforce Rubicon. (Ford Philanthropy)

Ford has invested over $2.4 billion over the previous 4 a long time in help of native communities. Nonetheless, this marks the primary time philanthropy is utilizing Ford’s huge community to help nonprofits, a lot of which have seen a decline in donations resulting from financial uncertainty.  

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In 2024, the variety of donors and the charges at which donors are retained declined by 4.5% and a pair of.6%, respectively, in comparison with the earlier yr, in response to the Affiliation of Fundraising Professionals. The decline in donor participation was vital amongst smaller donors, who donated items beneath $100, who noticed a decline of 8.8%, affiliation. Additionally they made up simply over half of all donations. 

The Ford Volunteer Corps on the Associates of River Rouge. (Ford Philanthropy)

“We had actually been working with some of the organizations on disaster relief. And on community resiliency. So every time there was a crisis, we would show up and support them,” Culler mentioned. “But we began to realize that we had so much more to give than just our philanthropic dollars because we have this incredible company that has employees who wanna volunteer, that has dealerships all across the country. We have, of course, vehicles that are relevant in some cases, and then we just have expertise.” 

Ford Philanthropy volunteers on the Gleaners Meals Financial institution.  (Ford Philanthropy)

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The corporate mentioned it’s growing its Volunteer Paid Time Off coverage from 16 to 56 hours to allow workers to volunteer with 4 particular companions. Ford additionally expanded its pool of loaner automobiles that the corporate’s nonprofit companions can faucet into on an as-needed foundation for issues like catastrophe response.

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Culler mentioned dealerships will start to “find their own ways of supporting these organizations throughout the next several months and throughout the year.” In the meantime, the corporate is setting its sights on increasing the initve globally later this yr.

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