Pohanka "Pays It Forward"

Dear Joe,

Pohanka “Pays it forward” is working! Our customers designated $23,350 to over 90 local non-profit agencies in the month of March. We are getting some incredible feedback from customers and non-profits alike. This is only the first month of this program and our goal is to keep helping the community with this program however; we can only do that if individuals and organization reach out to board members, supporters, employees, friends and family to support Pohanka Automotive Group.

The Pay it Forward program has been a dream of Pohanka of Salisburys Vice President, Sandy Fitzgerald - Angello for some time. Her vision is to inspire other businesses to do the same and keep our local economy and good will thriving. All of our business and efforts to do business are kept exclusively local. Pohanka’s paying if forward with money that would normally be spent on advertising outside of our primary Market. Our customers are choosing from a list of over 120 local non-profit agencies and can write in an agency not on the list. The idea is to keep donating to nonprofits but we can only do that if these organizations are supporting us as well. These non profits and their supporters need to be our Marketing team and spread the word about the Pohanka “Pays it forward” program. If their supporters, family or friends are in the Market for a vehicle, now is the time to buy.

Joe, I am sure that you understand that we have to inspire commerce. Pohanka Pays it Forward just started and will continue but we have to inspire people to at least give us a chance to earn their business locally.

Here is the March list of non-profits we have given money to!

THANK YOU to the customers that purchased vehicles from us this month!

Non Profit Amount: Allen Volunteer Fire Company 250.00 American Cancer Society 1,500.00 American Diabetes Association 600.00 American Heart Association 100.00 American Lung Association 200.00 American Red Cross Lower Shore Chapter 100.00 Asbury United Methodist Church Appalachian Service Project 100.00 Asbury United Methodist Church, Sharptown, MD 100.00 Atlantic General Hospital Foundation 200.00 Barren Creek Christian Academy 100.00 Bennett High School Athletic Boosters 100.00 Berlin Fire Company 100.00 Bethany United Methodist Church 100.00 Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Lower Eastern Shore 200.00 Blood Bank of Delmarva 100.00 Brain Injury Association of Maryland 100.00 Brooke Mulford Foundation 1,000.00 Children's Beach House 100.00 Children's Theater of Annapolis 100.00 Christian Shelter 200.00 Coastal Hospice 1,200.00 Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore 300.00 Deaf Independent Living 200.00 Eastern Shore SPCA 100.00 Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture 100.00 Faith Baptist School 100.00 Fellowship of Christian Athletes 100.00 First State Detachment Marine Corp League 100.00 FOP Lodge #9 100.00 Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay 100.00 Habitat for Humanity of Wicomico County 100.00 Harvest Baptist Church 100.00 Hindu Temple of the Eastern Shore 100.00 Holly Center 400.00 Holly Grove Christian School 200.00 Humane Society of Wicomico County 1,300.00 Justin W. Jennings Foundation 100.00 Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore 100.00 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society 200.00 Lewes Fire Department 100.00 Life Crisis Center 200.00 Lower Delaware Autism Foundation 200.00 MAC, Inc Area Agency on Aging 100.00 March of Dimes 500.00 Mardela High School Band Boosters 300.00 Maryland Food Bank 500.00 Meals on Wheels & Senior Meal Programs of Wicomico County 100.00 Miracle Temple Ministries 100.00 Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation 2,100.00 North Dorchester High School Band Boosters 100.00 Parkside High School Athletic Boosters 200.00 Parkside High School Band Boosters 100.00 Parsonsburg Volunteer Fire Company 100.00 Peninsula Regional Medical Center Foundation 500.00 Pets on Wheels of Delmarva 100.00 Pittsville Fire Department 100.00 Read Aloud Delaware 100.00 Royal Oak Church 100.00 Safe Haven Animal Sanctuary 700.00 Salisbury Christian School 100.00 Salisbury Urban Ministries 200.00 Salisbury Wicomico Arts Council 400.00 Salisbury Zoo 1,000.00 Salvation Army 500.00 Samaritan Shelter 100.00 Seaford High School Alumni Association 100.00 Snow Hill High School Band Boosters 100.00 Somerset CARES 100.00 South Coastal Library and Cultural Center 100.00 Special Olympics Maryland 200.00 St. Francis De Sales 100.00 St. Judes Children's Research Hospital 200.00 Stephen Decatur High School Band Boosters 100.00 Sussex County Habitat for Humanity 100.00 Sussex Pregnancy Care Center 100.00 The MAGI Fund 200.00 Toys for Tots 300.00 Tunnel Cancer Center 100.00 Union Baptist Church 100.00 United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore 100.00 University of Maryland Eastern Shore 100.00 US Troops 400.00 Wellness Community of Delmarva 200.00 Western Sussex Boy and Girls Club 100.00 Wheels that Heal Car Club 100.00 Wicomico Mentoring Project 100.00 Women Supporting Women 700.00 Worcester County Humane Society 200.00 Worcester County Office of the Sheriff 200.00 Worcester County Veterans Memorial at Ocean Pines 100.00 Young Life Salisbury 200.00