WELCOME to Rock For Charity, Roll with a Ride(tm)

Pamela Templeton Describes The Event:

The Final Moments:

The Beginning:

Thanks to our friends at Goodwill for the videos!

Congratulations!

The winning rocker is: Richard Irvin
The winning charity is: Good Wheels

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Interested in how the other rockers fared? See the elimination timeline of all the rockers and their charities.

About The Event

On Saturday, October 24, Ft. Myers Toyota & Scion, "The Family Store," co-sponsored and hosted a "ROCK for Charity, ROLL with a Ride(tm)" rocking chair marathon.

The winning charity was Good Wheels. The winning contestant, Richard Irvin, was one of SIX who rocked for 72 hours!

Says Irvin, "This contest was awesome! I can't believe it was actually me who won. I've never won anything in my life! Now I have a brand new Matrix, and Good Wheels has a brand new Sienna...this is so cool."

The publicity and the inclusion 14 Southwest Florida health and human services charity organizations took this promotion and competition to an entirely new level of interest achieving not only local attention but nation and worldwide attention as well.

Pamela Templeton, Vice President of Ft. Myers Toyota, notes, "Our Web traffic was up 70 percent and we received in excess of 2,000 hits on our site, plus everyone was following the action on the live Webcam...including viewers from England, Australia, Canada, and all over the nation! There was an incredible bonding and camaraderie that evolved between the rockers, as well as among the staff. It was humbling and exciting all at once. We will continue to shine a light on these local charities as we move to auction off these beautiful and unique chairs online."

The ROCK for Charity, ROLL with a Ride? contest consisted of 26 finalists and two alternates who were chosen from a semi-finalist pool of hundreds. They began rocking continuously at 5:30 pm on October 24, 2009; the competition ended after a full 72 hours. The individual winner's prize was a brand new 2010 Toyota Matrix and the local charity, whose chair the winner used, won a new 2010 Toyota Sienna Van. Each charity was represented by two rocking chairs, randomly assigned to each individual contestant. Each of the 28 painted rocking chairs will be auctioned off, thus giving all 14 organizations another chance to benefit financially
and from the exposure.

Templeton goes on to state, "This contest was important in raising awareness for all these wonderful charities. They do so much good for the community and the rocking chair contest was an exciting and fun way to get people involved. These organizations deserve to be recognized for the incredible work they do and they deserve all the help we can give them."

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We are honored that the following Charity Organizations joined us for this event.
We encourage everyone to go to their sites by clicking on the logos below.