Carroll Shelby Charity Changes Name

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Carroll Shelby’s charity that helps young people is changing names and expanding its reach.

It will now be called the Carroll Shelby Foundation, to reflect its broadened reach into education while maintaining its work with children who are battling life-threatening illnesses. The organization previously was called the Carroll Shelby Children’s Foundation.

The charity will now fundraise to help children with scholarships and educational programs in areas of automotive study. The first program will be with Shelby’s auto-technology center at Northeast Texas Community College.

The foundation will continue to raise money to help sick children and support coronary and organ transplant research.

“This is an exciting time for the foundation,” Shelby, president of the foundation, said in a statement. “We’ve been trying for years to find ways to broaden our mission to continue helping kids later in life.

“The automotive industry has been good to me for many years. What better way to give back than through the support of education in the automotive field? Now we can take children from their first heartbeat through their educational years.”

Shelby started the foundation in 1991 after receiving a life-saving organ transplant. The foundation is based in Gardena, Calif.

Dear Friend,

Thank you for the support you have given us over the years. Together we've made a real impact in the lives of so many people.

This is an exciting time for the Foundation. For years we've wanted to find the right way to broaden our mission and continue helping kids later in life. We believe we have found a way to do that.

Recently, the Board of Directors for the Carroll Shelby Children's Foundation voted to change the organization's name to the Carroll Shelby Foundation. This change reflects the Foundation's expanded mission beyond its current outreach to include continuing education for young people.

Over the years, the Foundation has evolved from the Carroll Shelby Heart Fund, with a specific dedication to providing support for organ transplants, into the Carroll Shelby Children's Foundation to help children who face all types of serious illnesses and the organizations that provide medical assistance. The Carroll Shelby Foundation will continue to help children battling life-threatening illnesses.

In addition, we will now assist kids as they grow into young adults by funding scholarships and supporting educational programs in automotive and related fields. Our first step towards this objective was to team with Northeast Texas Community College's Carroll Shelby Automotive Technology Center. Automotive education is important to the future of our great industry, and we're proud to help cultivate tomorrow's engineers, mechanics and designers.

In this new era, the Carroll Shelby Foundation will raise funds in both areas, which are equally close to my heart. This gives us the chance to help children from their first heartbeat through their educational years.

I'm confident that all of our partners and donors will share our vision and support the new initiatives and fundraising programs that are on the horizon. I encourage you to learn more about our expanded mission on our Web site at www.CarrollShelbyFoundation.org or by calling Jenni Shreeves at the Foundation.

Thank you for your continued support and I look forward to seeing you at our next event.

Carroll Shelby

[DeLa1Rob]

A charity that helps with medical needs and also provides automotive education scholarships seems to be a charity with two unrelated missions.

I think it would have been better to set up a separate scholarship fund. Hopefully it works out.

robin

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