We’ll give $1000 to one of these charities… YOU tell us which one!

Even with Yelp and Google around, old-fashioned people-telling-people is the best advertising for any small business. When our clients recommend our shop to their friends we say thanks through our Referral Reward Program, in which we make a donation to the non-profit group of your choice. At the end of the year we let our clients vote for one of these groups to receive a $1000 gift, and now’s the time for you to be heard. Follow this link to our webpage where you’ll find a list of all this year’s eligible groups, and vote for the ONE group you think deserves the $1000 the most. It’s a difficult decision but that’s why we leave it to you… get started!

We used to say ‘thank you’ for new client referrals with a free Minor Interval Service, but Tom always felt a little uneasy about it. Even if you’re making a completely sincere referral (and we certainly hope you are!) can a potential client be confident if there’s even a possible conflict of interest? That’s why we created our Referral Reward Program… we still get to say thank you, but there’s not even the appearance of impropriety! We’ve been privileged to give over $30,000 on behalf of our clients so far, and this year’s voting for our Referral Reward Yearly Winner will give us a healthy start for 2021.

Before you vote, we have one restriction… we gladly give to any organization you choose throughout the year, but for our Yearly Award we take large groups and past winners out of the running. The large groups are doing incredible work but our $1000 would be lost in their budgets of millions, and while our past winners would certainly appreciate another $1000 boost we want to share the love a little.

These are the groups we gave to in 2020 that we’ve EXCLUDED from this year’s voting…

Catholic Charities (large) Oregon Food Bank (large)

Oregon Humane Society (large) Pongo Fund (past winner)

Red Cross Portland (large) Salvation Army (large)

Oregon Public Broadcasting (large) Planned Parenthood (large)

We reserve our Yearly Award for the small- to mid-size groups for whom $1000 would have a huge impact. We hope you’ll join us in sharing the love with some of the smaller guys! That said, it’s

TIME TO VOTE FOR OUR YEARLY AWARD WINNER!

Please email your choice to Charles@TomDwyer.com

(Please include “yearly vote” in the subject line)

Here are your choices for the 2020 Tom Dwyer Referral Reward Program Yearly Award. Please email your choice to charles@tomdwyer.com. You are free to organize friends and supporters to vote for any particular group (just read what happened last year when Pongo Fund won!) but just one vote per client; honor system please! Winners will be announced in the next issue of “Your Car Matters”!

Active and Old Timers Baseball Association Alliance for Democracy

Black Resilience Fund Brown Hope Cedarwood Waldorf School

Children’s Cancer Association Clackamas Repretory Theater

Community Music Center Don’t Shoot PDX

Dove Lewis Animal Hospital

Family Solutions Community Mental Health Friends of the Children

Friends of Trees Janus Youth Services JOIN PDX

KMHD Radio Lewis and Clark Montessori Charter School

Meals on Wheels Neighborhood House Oaks Park

Oregon Jewish Museum and Holocaust Center Outside In

Real Rent Duwamish Right to Health Rosehaven

St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital St. Vincent DePaul Estacada