Recycled Rides Project Participant
Precision Body & Paint
Two local families were the recipients of the nationally acclaimed Recycled Rides Program recently at a ceremony at Precision Body & Paint Company’s Beaverton facility. The Monday before Thanksgiving, November 23rd marked the second year Precision has participated in this community assisting project. As a member of NABC – the National Auto Body Council – Precision is delighted to be able to give back to the local community and make a positive difference. Last year this program donated 47 vehicles. This year the goal nationwide was 100. By the year 2014, NABC is hopeful the goal will be nearing 500 donated vehicles in the US.
The program is a national awareness project whereby collision repair members of the National Auto Body Council (NABC) repair and then donate recycled vehicles to families in need in their communities. Recipients were chosen from Victims of Domestic Abuse Programs, sponsored by the YWCA Family Outreach Program and Volunteers of America. Both recipients had children.
State Farm Insurance Co. located two full-size Vans to donate, Precision then donated materials and labor to restore each vehicle to perfect condition. Precision’s technicians also donated their time for the body work, paint labor, and assembly processes. The administrative staff gave their time and effort to procure donations from various vendors such as Beaverton Toyota, Foster Auto Parts, Trader Joes, Meinke, Fresh Start Detail, Battery XChange, Enterprise Car Rental, Two Rivers Church, and Nike. Employees also gathered additional items on their own to fill each van with items to help the families set up housekeeping and begin a better quality of life included cooking items, dishes, silverware, toys, clothing, linens, new car seats, food and $500 cash. YWCA & Volunteers of America covered the first year of auto insurance.
Precision Body & Paint Company wishes to thank everyone who helped make this program a success through all of their efforts and generous contrabutions. It is because of people helping people that we were able to reach the program’s goal of “Providing the wheels they need to succeed…through Recycled Rides.”
