NADA Provides CPR Training Manikins to Communities Nationwide

MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 13, 2004 -- The National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation (NADCF) has donated more than 3,600 cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) manikins and Little Anne automated external defibrillator (AED) training units worth over $2 million to civic and safety organizations since the Foundation was established in 1975. Nearly 1.9 million people have been trained on the manikins donated by NADCF.

In 2003, dealers donated 157 CPR training manikins through NADCF, valued at approximately $125,000.

"You'll never find a group of people who care more about their communities than new car and truck dealers, and this program is an example of how they are showing it with a life-saving gift," said Robert P. Mallon, NADCF chairman.

In addition to the manikin program, NADCF assists U.S. communities in a variety of other ways, including:

  * Providing financial support to educational institutions, emergency
    medical organizations, and institutions involved in economic education;

  * Giving grants to private/independent colleges and universities to help
    students with emergency needs and to further the study of ethics;

  * Disbursing grants to dealership employees who have sustained loss to
    home and property due to natural disasters;

  * Offering scholarships to families of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist
    attacks.

Established in 1975, the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation is a tax-exempt, non-profit organization that raises and distributes funds from franchised new car and truck dealers and friends for emergency medical and economic educational organizations and private-sector colleges and universities. Gifts to NADCF are tax-deductible.

The National Automobile Dealers Association represents more than 20,000 franchised new car and truck dealers, with more than 43,300 separate franchises, both domestic and import.