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1. What are the best type of cars sold at an auction? most likely to sell and for the most money; how to get more of these cars – research
2. Research the value of scrap metal and why it goes up and down
3. Top choices for auctions- Gettysburg auction because they are a public auction; they also use a virtual auction and many cars are sold overseas
4. Investing in a tow truck which costs $135 per car-
   

TEAM #1:  What are other organizations who accept donated cars doing to address this problem – in and outside of Maryland, across the U.S., in the European Union and United Kingdom, internationally including Japan?  How many cars are we talking about?

The organizations that accept donated cars are facing a great challenge when it comes to the donation of unusable cars. However, they are addressing to this problem by helping small organizations to amplify justice and positive impact. The idea underlies in the fair trade USA whereby the social justice movement is adhered to with an aim of fair treatment to every organization.

The fact that the fair trade movement does not focus on aid but trade has also led to the idea of donation dependent organizations to be more independent, they concentrate on their trading activities without looking and depending on foreign that turns out to fail them very miserably.

Linking people to the market and teaching people to develop their own trading activities to eliminate poverty is also another way in which the organizations are addressing to this problem of car donations. Motivating people on how to make better returns in the market is also of big help, in terms of trade.

Furthermore, the organizations have managed to build resilience by creating a firm backbone of the businesses as a way of reducing the heavy weight that is dropped on the organizations when the disasters strike (Saebi et al., 2019). The donation of funds from people and their ability to save a certain amount of funds have managed to eradicate poverty in at least few regions at the USA.

Through the fair trade movement, the development projects are done by the people who manage the small organizations. They decide on the development project they want to start with, working based on their budget in order to avoid extra costs and debts. The fact that a certain organization can manage to do their own projects without depending on the foreign aid attracts more efforts and hard work among the people.

Lastly, the donation of cars is done by other large organizations and has been of very great impact to the other small organization (Carraher et al., 2016). The number of cars donated is roughly about five per annum.

References

Carraher, S. M., Welsh, D. H., & Svilokos, A. (2016). Validation of a measure of social entrepreneurship. European Journal of International Management, 10(4), 386-402.

Saebi, T., Foss, N. J., & Linder, S. (2019). Social entrepreneurship research: Past achievements and future promises. Journal of Management, 45(1), 70-95.

Allie idea’s:

1. Work with a partner to manage the sales?A. Maryland Car Donations (careasy.org)B. Donate Car to Asian Resources – DonateACar.com. 2. Develop more relationships with retail partners so they can “shop around”

Erin:

International Car Donation: UK

“Giveacar, a not-for-profit company that acts as a go-between for people who want to get rid of unwanted cars, salvage companies and charities, arranged for the car to be picked up and scrapped and, minus an admin fee, the £112 from the deal was sent to United Through Sport (UTS), which works in the UK and Africa to provide sports equipment and training to deprived communities.”

Article about Europe’s Givecar- Giveacar they donate about $200 (converted from pounds) per car to charity. Scrap cars go for under $200.

Giveacar

https://www.rawhide.org/blog/car-donation/what-happens-to-a-car-after-you-donate-it-to-charity/

– Rawhid youth services- instead of outsourcing to auctions they maintain their own ebay store to auction donated cars. This cuts out the cost to pay the auction