2025 DONATIONS

Thank you to all the car enthusiasts who attend any Cool Cruisers events.

The entrance fees are what make these donations possible.

10/12/25 RT97 Cruisaders Toy drive for Menard County Jaycees

Cool Cruisers Stephaine Lyn presenting Menard County Jaycees a $250 donation at the RT 97 Cruisaders Christmas toy drive cruise in. Thanks, Andrew Coulter, for your professional photography skills.

10/03/25 United Way Day of Action

Some pics of Cool Cruisers donating their time to United Way Day of Action. We decorated the outdoors of the old State Capitol and then helped with some landscaping.

Our donation of time totaled $ 1,890.00.

What a great bunch of people.

09/29/25 Landmark Ford Food drive

What do you do when there's hungry people in your community. YOU HELP OUT! Cool Cruisers is honored to help Landmark Ford once again in there Annual fill the truck food drive. The club donated 672 can goods. It's the club's 2nd food drive this year, with 1120 canned goods at the K of C #4175 food drive. So thanks to all the members we have donated 1792 can goods to our community.

09/14/25 Friends of Sangamon County Animal Control

From our President John Carpenter - On behalf of the Cool Cruisers I would like to thank everybody who came out and supported our pet food drive in this heat. We raised $1211.00 in cash and around $400 in pet food & supplies for Friends of Sangamon County.

08/30/25 Hooligans of Illinois Car Club

Cool Cruisers is honored to play a small part in Hooligans C.C. Illinois fundraising event. They raised over $5k.

08/23/25 Knights of Columbus

So proud of every member in the Cool Cruisers. Car Club. You have made it possible for the club to make donations like this and many more to the community. In case you're wondering there are 1128 cans ($681.00). Plus all of the cans our members brought to donate!

08/06/25 R.E.D. (Remember Everyone Deployed)

Cool Cruisers. & friends had a good deed moment by donating $1171.00 to R.E.D. (Remember Everyone Deployed). They send care packages to people serving our country. So proud of what this club does for the community.

07/17/25 St. Jude Runs

It wasn't the best night to have a cruise in with rain in the forecast and postponed for a day, but Cool Cruisers & friends still got together and donated $1208.00 to St. Jude Runs. Accepting the donation for St. Jude. was Lindsey Neighbors. Thanks to everyone who made this possible.

07/02/25 Sangamon County Coroner's Indigent Cremation Fund

From our President John Carpenter - On behalf of the Cool Cruisers tonight I want to thank everyone who came out and made our fundraiser a success. We were able to donate $1790 to Sangamon County Coroner's indigent fund. Thanks to the crew for the hard work, you made it happen. It was so good seeing everybody again. (After 6 weeks of rain cancellations).

05/28/25 Habitat for Humanity

From our President John Carpenter - Cool Cruisers members are the best. Together we raised $1740.00 for Habitat for Humanity. Thanks everyone. Also thanks to the club's awesome workers for all they do to put these events together.

Image of Motorheads parking lot on 5/4/25 take by Todd Faulkner

05/04/25 Chatham Strong Cruise-in Donation

From our President John Carpenter - On behalf of Cool Cruisers, I want to thank everyone who came out and participated in the club's fundraiser today for #ChathamStrong. Also, thank you, Ron, Justin & Scott from Motorheads, for the majority of the raffle prizes. Casey Claypool. From Docs Just Off 66 - Girard, Illinois, for all her donations. Special thanks to Cool Cruisers officers and board members for all the hard work you do to make these events successful

Now to the numbers. The 50/50 was a club record $900. Billy Tire Fryer won it and donated over 1/2 of it back. Thanks, buddy, so kind. Another club record was the size of the donation. Drum roll, please. We donated over $11000.00, unbelievable, and got a phone call for another $200.00. I am so proud of the car community and the businesses that came together and made this event successful. Thanks everyone.

Image of Motorheads parking lot taken by Todd Faulkner

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