Olathe, Kansas Overland Park, Kansas Home | Used Cars | Ford RV | Conversion Center Lenexa, Gardner & Olathe Community Service At Olathe Ford, we take our role as a corporate citizen seriously. Olathe Ford sponsors Hurricane Katrina Relief, 11 college scholarships, supports the Muscular Dystrophy Association, NAIA, 4-H, the Johnson County Fair, Spring Hill Fall Festival, Johnson County Old Settlers, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, YMCA, Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm Historic Site, Olathe Community Theater Association, Hidden Glen Arts Festival, Salvation Army, Johnson County Christmas Bureau, numerous youth sports teams and many other community events. Olathe Ford hosts blood drives with Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City and child identification programs.
Drive for Education As part of our continuing commitment to the surrounding community, Olathe Ford offers a fund raising program to area youth organizations and grade & middle schools. In the Drive
For Education program, one week is set aside in which Gardner, Lenexa &
Olathe area school and youth organizations earn $10 for each parent that
comes in and test drives a new or used car. Contact Marketing Manager Keith
Stokes at olathe@olatheford.com
for more details.
Muscular Dystrophy Association Olathe Ford actively supports the MDA, providing vehicles for use in the various MDA Lenexa & Olathe Jail & Bail events, and participating in the sale of Shamrocks to benefit MDA. From 1999 - 2002, Olathe Ford hosted portions of the the Kansas City Muscular Dystrophy Association's Labor Day Jerry Lewis Telethon and contributed $100 to MDA for each vehicle sold that week. To date, over $70,000 has been contributed to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Olathe Ford offers scholarships to graduating seniors at area schools. In the past 10 years, Olathe Ford has awarded over $60,000 in scholarships to area students. We also fund $2,000 in scholarships at Midamerica Nazarene University. Eight of the scholarships are given to students from Blue Valley, Blue Valley North, Blue Valley Northwest, Blue Valley West, Olathe North, Olathe East, Olathe Northwest and Olathe South High Schools. One $500 scholarship is awarded at each school. The scholarships are awarded on the basis of need, scholarship, leadership, community involvement and school involvement, with the selection made by a panel of teachers and administrators from each school. Contact your school's counselor's office in February to apply. The ninth $500 scholarship is awarded through the Gardner Chamber of Commerce to assist Gardner-Edgerton High School students who desire to further their education in the field of Business or Economics. Applicants must write an essay on a business related subject and are selected by a committee appointed by the Gardner Chamber of Commerce. Olathe
Ford Sales Manager adopts 6 children
Olathe Ford was the Chamber of Commerce 1995 Corporate Citizen of the year. Copyright © 1996-2006 Olathe Ford is the largest dealership of any make in the state of Kansas and one of the 100 largest Ford Dealerships in the United States. We have been serving Johnson County, DeSoto, Gardner, Lenexa, Overland Park and the surrounding area with the same owners and senior management for over 30 years. Olathe Ford is the largest Ford Business Preferred Dealer in the United States - year after year. |
