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Letter to the Editor

Marco Grossi and NABC Continue Camp Mak-A-Dream Work

Grossi, owner of Collision Craftsmen a multi-store collision repair business in the Detroit area, was instrumental in generating the revenue needed to build the much-needed health center.

Grossi, who got started in the collision business by working part time in his father’s shop, was recently named one of Detroit’s Future Fifty up and coming companies by the Greater Detroit Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber invited area businesses to submit applications. The applications were audited for accuracy by the accounting firm of B.D.O.Seedman. and the fifty fastest growing Michigan companies were honored.

Involvement with Camp Mak-a-Dream came during a Shrine Classic Car show. The camp had sent flyers to the show describing the Camp Mak-A-Dream Mission. “It sounded like something I would like to get involved in,” said Grossi.

The Collision Craftsmen management team agreed. The first of a series of dinner dances was held at the Gazebo Hall in Warren, MI. The first dance was attended by 84 people, and the funds generated sent three Michigan children to camp that year.

The following year saw five children go to the camp. “While we still continue to send children to the camp,” continued Grossi, “we also became aware of the camp’s need to dramatically update its healthcare capability.”

Grossi, who, from 2000-2002 was President of the National Auto Body Council, a not-for-profit association dedicated to improving the image of the collision industry, contacted NABC for assistance in raising the needed funds.

The effort was extraordinarily successful. In January, 2003, a check for $500,000 was presented to Camp Mak-A-Dream representing donations from countless individuals and businesses in the collision industry. These donations matched the original $500,000 grant made by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.

Groundbreaking for the new medical center took place on March 22nd.

Still very much involved in the day-to-day business of Collision Craftsmen, Grossi also sits on the Michigan chapter of Friends of Camp Mak-a-Dream’s board of directors. It is his desire, not only to see the camp grow, but also to make sure the public knows what a dedicated group of individuals from an often-maligned industry can do to make the world a better place to live can do when they set their minds to it.

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