PORT CHARLOTTE, FL (November 19, 2025) – On Wednesday, November 19, a Memphis mother received the gift of reliable transportation—this beautifully refurbished vehicle will help her as she attempts to provide her children with a more stable life. The donation was made possible by the NABC Recycled Rides® program, vehicle donor Allstate and repair partner Carey’s Body Shop.
The presentation of a 2021 Jeep Cherokee Laredo, fully refurbished by the team at Carey’s Body Shop, took place at the Pinnacle Financial Partners office located in Memphis, TN. Pinnacle Financial Partners, which is a level one member of the NABC®, provides a full range of banking, investment, trust, mortgage and insurance products and services designed for businesses and their owners and individuals interested in a comprehensive relationship with their financial institution.
The recipient was nominated by The Women’s Advocacy Center. The Women’s Advocacy Center’s mission is to empower and support survivors of domestic abuse, sexual assault and stalking in rural and suburban communities by showing them the love of God.
“It is so important that the women we serve have transportation, to create stability for them and their families,” said Romona Jackson, Founding President and CEO of the Women’s Advocacy Center. “Transportation helps them get their children to school, get to the grocery store, to work—things that we often take for granted. We are grateful to the National Auto Body Council and all its members to provide this vehicle to a family that we serve. as it will not only help them in their time of need but in the daily lives.”
Chanielle Talbird is mother to two handsome boys and a sweet little girl. In 2023, she not only experienced the loss of transportation but endured physical violence that resulted in a traumatic and abrupt separation from her ex-husband. Recovering from that experience, she had planned to graduate from a nursing program in hopes of obtaining gainful employment to provide for her and her three children. Her eldest son, however, was a high school senior and dreamt of attending the University of Tennessee in Knoxville as an Engineering major. Talbird was faced with a decision to choose either her education or her son’s. She made the decision to forfeit nursing school and find a job to support his dream of going to college away from home. Talbird eventually found herself at the Women’s Advocacy Center where she took advantage of the programs they had to offer, gained confidence and courage to secure a new and higher paying position, move into her own place and provide stability for her family. She currently has steady employment and is piloting a new state-funded program that requires her to travel to clients’ homes, some of which are in lower-income neighborhoods in Memphis. This refurbished vehicle from the NABC Recycled Rides® program will be an excellent investment, not only in Chanielle and her children, but will allow her to continue investing in other people through the Opening Doors program.
“This beautiful vehicle will mean so much to me and my children,” said Talbird. “We have been
struggling with car issues for the last two years and it has been such a challenge for me to get to work but thankfully with this gift I will be able to stabilize my employment and my children will have a better future.
Allstate, a Level One partner of the National Auto Body Council®, has donated several hundred vehicles to people and organizations through the NABC Recycled Rides® program, making it one of the largest car donor partners of NABC Recycled Rides.
Carey’s Body Shop, an I-CAR Gold Class shop located in Millington, TN, helps customers get their vehicle in excellent, pre-accident condition with as little stress as possible.
Additional partners in this presentation include: Wheel Workz, A&K Towing, Alltech, Advanced Remarketing Services, Cars for Charity and Copart.
NABC Recycled Rides® is a unique program in which businesses representing all facets of the collision repair industry team up to repair and donate vehicles to individuals and families in need of reliable transportation. Since the inception of the NABC Recycled Rides® program in 2007, members of the National Auto Body Council® have donated more than 3,500 vehicles valued at some $51 million.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL AUTO BODY COUNCIL®
The National Auto Body Council® is the premier organization of collision industry partners dedicated to strategic networking opportunities that positively change lives in the communities we serve. The collaborative membership of the National Auto Body Council® has gifted more than 3,500 vehicles and provided extrication opportunities for some 6,000 First Responders in communities around the country through NABC Recycled Rides® and NABC First Responder Emergency Extrication (F.R.E.E.™). That effort equates to a 4:1 ROI in dollar value delivered from NABC® membership dollars.
The NABC Changing and Saving Lives Foundation, a 501c3 organization, is committed to the goal of driving change for veterans, military members, first responders and families in need, while harnessing the power of the collective membership of the collision repair industry to positively impact communities where we live and work. As demand for NABC® programs like NABC Recycled Rides® and NABC F.R.E.E.™ grows, so do the needs for resources to manage these important programs. Being able to pursue grants, gifts and donations allows NABC to expand these programs to serve those in need and help communities where we live and work. For more information, visit www.NationalautoBodyCouncil.org.