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Sponsorship
Information - Funding - Additional
Benefits
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Race for Safety
/ Beat the Heat is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to promoting
traffic safety, drug and alcohol awareness, and building relationships between
firefighters, police officers, and kids of all ages; to make the public aware
of the human, caring side of firefighters and police officers.
Businesses, corporations, foundations, and individuals are welcome to make an
investment in the future of our youth throughout Arizona and the Southwest.
You can choose to sponsor your favorite car or you can contribute to the organization’s
general fund. Contributions of money, services, and products are always welcome
and needed. All donations are tax deductible.
Contributions to Race for Safety / Beat the Heat will be used to run and promote
our life safety team. Contributions to the general fund go toward insurance,
taxes, and events involving all communities.
Click here to open the "Sponsorship Form"
All funds come from the donations from sponsors and individual donors who desire
to see the Goals of the Program met. NO TAX DOLLARS are spent by any
agency we represent. Since ALL participants are volunteers, over 98% of all
funding go directly to operate the program. Several of the officers have trading
cards printed. These have proved to be great items to present to the kids to
remind them about the principles of the program.
Funding is needed for just about everything. We need pamphlets, pictures, trading cards, T-shirts, caps, and any other items that we can hand out to the kids. It is very important that they have something to remind them of our message.
In
1997, 1998, and 1999, the program sponsored a CHALLENGE SERIES for Firefighters
and Police Officers all over the country to gather and display their programs
and race the cars for the title of “TOP COP”. The last event
at Gainesville Raceway in Florida was the WORLD FINALS where we crowned
a true National Champion for the program. All the officers and Firefighters
that participated in these events volunteered to do so knowing there were no
monetary prizes. They participated at their own expense just to try to make
a real difference for the kids.
The members of the program contacted over 245,000 young people in 1995 delivering
our educational message. In 1996, we worked with over 300,000 kids. That number
grew to well over 500,000 in 1997. In 1998, that number pushed 700,000. In 1999,
we contacted 1,301,780 kids in over 750 events. Our activities continued to
grow in 2000 making over 1.3 million kid contacts. We can document that we made
a difference for many of these young people and we did it very economically,
spending less than ONE DOLLAR per child. Try to imagine what we might
be able to do if we were able to spend 2 or 3 dollars per child! Although there
are some administrative costs, they amount to less than 2% of the entire budget.
We are very proud that these expenses are kept at a bare minimum.
The volunteer Firefighters and Police Officers of the program drive well over
300,000 miles each year to participate in all these events. We DO NOT
charge a fee for our appearances. We find that most of the time the organizations
that really need our services have no budget to supply any funding to help us.
That is why they need our help in the first place. It is our intention to keep
working with the young people as long as we possibly can and hope that we can
get enough help from sponsors and donors to keep us going.
ADDITIONAL
BENEFITS THAT THE “RACE FOR
SAFETY” TEAM WILL PROVIDE