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Strong community service makes for a
MAADA’s New Car & Truck Dealers strong future, and that’s why the members
Community Ser vice of the Metro Atlanta Automobile Dealers
Association place a high priority on
supporting local charities. Let’s take a brief
look at the organizations the MAADA is
supporting.

Growing up is challenging. It’s hard enough for The roots of the Boys & Girls Clubs dates back Army Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta.
youngsters to navigate the maze of daily reality to the 1950s, and since then the organization
that face them, both in education and general grown tremendously, serving more than 70,000 The Metro Atlanta Automobile Dealers
society. But in some areas, such as Metro youngsters. And while the mission began as a Association has been a long-time supporter of
Atlanta, there’s a large number of kids that way to keep kids safe, it has transitioned to a the Boys & Girls Clubs, sponsoring annual golf
face an uphill battle. The number of high school more ambitious goal of helping them on their tournaments that raise tens-of-thousands of
dropouts in Georgia is elevated, compared to the paths toward great futures. “We work hard to dollars for the organization.
national average. The same goes for obesity and inspire and enable all young people, especially
teen pregnancy rates. Many of these kids lack those from disadvantaged circumstances, To learn more, visit www.salvationarmyatlanta.
the resources and role models needed to change to realize their full potential as productive, org/the-salvation-army-boys-girls-clubs-of-
course. That’s where the Boys & Girls Clubs of responsible and caring citizens,” said Joshua greater-atlanta.
Greater Atlanta comes in. Dickerson, Executive Director of the Salvation

The GSGA Junior Tour is a statewide program managed by the Georgia State Golf Association, providing
young golfers in Georgia an opportunity to participate in competitive junior golf. The program offers junior golf
competitions throughout the state for players of all skill levels between the ages of 5 and 18 who have not yet
started college. There are a variety of membership levels to meet juniors’ needs, all of which include access to
over 100 tournaments annually and membership into the GSGA Youth on Course Program.

Georgia became the first state on the East Coast to adopt Youth on Course, which provides juniors access to $5
rounds of golf at participating facilities. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, the GSGA Junior Tour has strong
relationships in the community with local partners such as the Metro Atlanta Automobile Dealers Association.
MAADA has been a longtime partner of the program and provides support for many junior golf initiatives across
the state, including a Financial Assistance Program to help families offset the cost of playing competitive junior
golf. In addition, the MAADA Series is a compilation of multi-day tournaments within the GSGA Junior Tour
designed to give players the opportunity to receive national recognition.

For more information about the program or to join, please
visit www.gsga.org/juniortour or call 770-850-9040.

When you think of Christmas, you likely envision families gathered hope, encouraging these youngsters to become responsible, productive,
around the tree, with children frantically opening presents, smiling from patriotic citizens.
ear to ear. It’s a joyful thing to think about. But think about this: there
are a lot of kids out there with parents who are struggling to make ends In 2019, Toys for Tots distributed 839,102 toys, supporting 419,551
meet, which means that, in some cases, there may be no toys under the children. This year, the MAADA is
tree for their children. Thankfully, the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve sets out looking forward to once again
each year on a mission to combat that issue. supporting the U.S. Marine
Corps Reserve’s efforts.
Atlanta’s Marine Toys for Tots program was established to bring smiles
to the faces of less fortunate children around the metro area. Each year, You can learn more about the
volunteers and partner organizations such as the dealer members of Toys for Tots campaign by
MAADA, collect new, unwrapped toys from October through December. visiting https://northatlanta.
And while the primary goal of the program is the distribution of those toysfortots.org.
toys to kids in need, there’s another goal, which is to bring a message of
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