Since 1998, Hyundai and its dealers have been committed to supporting the fight against childhood cancer. What began in 1998 as a local initiative supported by New England-area Hyundai dealers to raise funds for the Jimmy Fund at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has evolved into Hyundai Hope on Wheels, an independent 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization … Read more →
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Since 1998, Hyundai and its dealers have been committed to supporting the fight against childhood cancer. What began in 1998 as a local initiative supported by New England-area Hyundai dealers to raise funds for the Jimmy Fund at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has evolved into Hyundai Hope on Wheels, an independent 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization that is now supported nationwide by Hyundai’s 800+ dealers and Hyundai Motor America. Since its inception, Hyundai Hope on Wheels has donated more than $23 million to children’s hospitals across the country to help kids fight cancer.
The symbol of the Hope on Wheels Tour is a white Hyundai Santa Fe vehicle covered with colorful handprints representing childhood cancer patients from all over the country. The Handprint Ceremonies celebrate the courage of these patients by capturing their colorful handprints on the white Santa Fe, with attending children placing their own handprints on the car to commemorate their battle with cancer.
In 2011, Herb Connoly Hyundai and other Hyundai dealers continue their commitment to battling childhood cancer with the “Hyundai Gives Hope on Wheels” initiative during the month of September – Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Every time a new Hyundai vehicle is sold in the U.S., a donation is made to Hope on Wheels. Here at Herb Connolly Hyundai in Framingham, we are doubling our normal donation in honor of Childhood cancer month over the standard donation we do on every new Hyundai sold!! Our donations are matched by Hyundai, as their commitment to pediatric cancer research mirrors our own!
The Hope on Wheels Tour is the united effort of Hyundai dealers across the country to raise awareness about childhood cancer and celebrate the lives of the courageous children battling the disease, by visiting hospitals across the country. Today, Adam Connolly, president of Herb Connolly Automotive Group was at the Massachusetts General Hospital for the presentation of a check for $100,000 to the pediatric cancer unit from Hyundai and it’s dealers! $100,000 is also being given to Umass, and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute! A total of $7.1 million is being donated by Hyundai this year alone!

For more information on Hyundai’s Hope on Wheels, please click here.