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Letter to the Editor

Ford Motor Company, UAW, Dealers Respond to National Tragedy

DEARBORN, Mich. -- To assist the nation after Tuesday's attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., Ford Motor Company, the United Auto Workers, and dealers are doing the following:

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• The company will donate $1 million to the American Red Cross.
• UAW-Ford National Programs will donate $1 million to the Salvation Army.
• $500,000 from the New York Ford Dealer Advertising Fund and Ford Division. ($250,000 from FDAF with dollar-for-dollar match by Ford Division.)
• 58 vehicle donations or loans include: -- 10 Ford Excursions to the New York Fire Department -- Six vans (Ford Econolines and Cargo Vans) to shuttle police, fire

and medical personnel by Manhattan Auto Group, the company-owned

dealership in New York

• 14 Lincoln Navigators and two Ford Econolines to shuttle New York Stock Exchange employees in and out of Wall Street area
• 15 Ford Rangers and two Ford Explorers to the New York Port Authority from Edison Assembly Plant
• Two Lincoln Navigators and two Ford Rangers to the FBI -- Five walk-in vans to New York City Fire Department in collaboration

with Utilimaster Corp. (The chassis are built by Ford and the

vehicle bodies are built by Utilimaster of Wakarusa, Indiana.)

• The company's southeastern Michigan facilities, working through UAW regions, are coordinating ongoing blood drives and fund raisers with local chapters of the American Red Cross and Salvation Army.
• The company will match all employee (salaried, hourly and agency/contract) contributions to the American Red Cross.
• New York area dealers are providing transportation, collecting rescue supplies and assisting with local blood drives.
• Edison Assembly Plant is coordinating donations of rescue supplies from Ford plants around the country. To date, some 25,000 pairs of work gloves, breathing masks and other rescue supplies have been shipped.
• Ford Financial created a Wall of Remembrance at local branches around the country as a fund-raising rallying point. More than $5,000 was collected Friday, Sept. 14, at Ford Financial world headquarters.
• Hertz donated two dump trucks and rescue supplies.
• The company has offered to meet other emergency and long-term needs of New York City and is awaiting the city's response. Those offers include emergency response team services and up to 48,000 square feet of office space for displaced government employees.

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