Cars Helping America

There are programs now that allow you to get rid of a car you can’t sell, or possibly just want to donate to multiple charities. Donating a car is a great way to get a tax break for the year as well as giving to a good cause. There are many different avenues to give your car to charity. You can find them online as well in your local newspaper or penny saver. But no matters which you choose make sure you do your homework before committing yourself to something.

There’s a website you can look at for donating a car, carshelpingamerica.org is one site that allows vehicle donation. They have a large list of charities to choose from where your donation can go. If you can’t find something there a lot of national charities also accept vehicle donations.

From the Salvation Army, the American Heart Association as well as the Breast Cancer Foundation. Contact your favorite charity and see what kinds of donations they accept, you might be surprised. How it works is you contact the charity of choice, they will ask some basic information. Then a car donating service will come and pick up the car at no cost to you.

They will give you a receipt for the value of the car; they then will take the car, value it and give a percentage to the charity you chose. The whole amount of the vehicle does not go to the charity as there are fees associated with the service selling and picking up the car.  There are a lot of advantages to donating a car, including not having the headache of the phone calls, the showing the vehicle over and over and having to dicker with someone who wants you to give the car away.

Also less paperwork and running around, not to mention how expensive newspaper ads can be. Make sure you do your homework and choose a charity that makes you happy with your choice. Whatever you choose donating a car to charity is a wonderful thing, benefitting you as well as others.