It all began in 2006 as an outgrowth of our ‘donate a car’ fundraiser. Daniel Goodman, our CEO, began to notice an occasional donation of a handicap van. And, having their own special needs child who enjoyed his wheelchair van, Daniel thought it was a ‘waste’ to send such a vehicle to a dealer auction. Typically, that would only bring several hundred to a few thousand dollars in funding, with the van even likely to be used for other purposes.

Why not hold the van and find a local needy family that could enjoy such a gift. Eventually, when we saw that no one was doing this nationwide, the program expanded to fill the need. Now we get requests and donations from across the country!