Car Donation Programs

Hundreds of charities have begun to adopt car donation programs as a way to raise funds or to provide themselves with no-cost vehicles to help operate their programs. But rather than managing the car donation programs themselves, they will often turn to fundraising organizations to actually handle the donation and auctioning of the vehicles. And that policy can mean a problem for you.

There are two types of vehicle donation programs. The first type of program has a list of charitable or non-profit organizations to choose from. Some of the programs available are like the America's Car Donations Charities Center, which has been operating since 1992. They are renowned for fund raising via vehicle donations for non-profit organizations, and have processed more than 500,000 vehicles thus far! Donate for Charity is owned and managed by Harvard Business School graduates and has been around for more than 20 years. They are the ideal people to contact if you are an organization looking for a fundraiser.

When you give your car to a charity you will feel good about contributing to other people. Many times we take for granted all the good things we have in our lives and being reminded that everyone isn?t quite as lucky as you are can be a good thing. Many charities will sell the used car at auction and use the proceeds for whatever programs they run.

You can find so many different charities that target different groups to help. You can choose a charity that has meaning in some way for you. If you have lost someone to the ravaging disease of cancer you can donate your used car to a cancer research car donation program. Within the cancer research community you will find many specific car donation programs too.

Car donation programs which cannot, or will not, give you clear answers to these questions are not those on which you can depend to see that your ca, or the money it brings gets, to the charity of your choosing. And if the charity does not directly receive the car or its value, you do not have the right to claim the value of the car as a deduction.