For 15 years, Good News Garage has provided families with the keys to get back on the road to financial independence. You can celebrate this important milestone by participating in the
Good News Garage Birthday Challenge!
Good News Garage (GNG), a program of Lutheran Social Services (LSS), repairs donated cars and provides them to low-income families who need affordable and reliable transportation. Throughout this year, GNG will commemorate its history by highlighting the people and events that have shaped such important work.
Help support Good News Garage by taking on the 15th Birthday Challenge:
1. Donate a car, van, truck or boat!
2. Follow Good News Garage on Facebook and Twitter
3. Make a cash donation to a state JumpStart program (a vehicle purchase program for low-income families to buy a GNG car at an affordable price)
4. Volunteer at your local office
5. Attend a Good News Garage birthday party this fall
6. Hang one (or 15!) Good News Garage posters around town
7. Invite us along: have a GNG representative speak at your church, office, club, or backyard barbeque
8. Donate materials: we need tires, car care items (ice scrapers, jumper cables, etc.) and more
9. Tell 15 friends about Good News Garage to help spread the message
10. Lend your expertise: join a GNG program committee meeting to talk strategy
11. Come up with a name for our car mascot …contest with prizes coming soon to Facebook!
12. Learn more about Lutheran Social Services’ other important programs that serve and care for people in need
13. Contact a state or local official and tell them about the work Good News Garage is doing in your community
14. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper or elected official to advocate for Good News Garage
15. Post your favorite car story on our Facebook page…most memorable? funniest? We want to hear it!
Good News Garage was one of the first nonprofit car donation programs in the United States. Today, the program has awarded more than 3,800 refurbished vehicles to New England families. Since opening in Vermont in 1996 the program has expanded into Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.