The automaker donated 17 vehicles in all, along with $2.5 million, to help Team Rubicon assist with weather-related disasters in the United States.
Ford is making the donation through its charitable arm, the Ford Motor Company Fund, which has donated $7 million to disaster relief efforts globally in the past few years, according to the group's website. Ford and the Ford Fund made over $64 million in charitable contributions in 2022.Team Rubicon was founded in 2010 after a massive earthquake in Haiti.
Ford will encourage its employees to volunteer with Team Rubicon by providing paid time off when they do. Ford employees volunteered with Team Rubicon in Detroit earlier in 2023 to repair homes wrecked by floods in 2021. The first targets for Ford employees with this new donation are Detroit, again, and Houston.Sebastian Blanco has been writing about electric vehicles, hybrids, and hydrogen cars since 2006.
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