Academy · Community outreach
Nobody misses out
over money.
The Academy is the Foundation's educational arm. We partner with organizations working with young people to teach through automobiles, and we make sure cost is never the reason a teenager misses out — funding places on the Teen Defensive Driving School and supporting local organizations doing work we believe in.
The programs
Three names,
one foundation.
Partnerships
Learning through
automobiles.
The Academy works alongside organizations already doing good work with young people, using cars as the way in — to teach, to open a door, or simply to give somebody a day they would not otherwise have had.
Scouts of America
Badge work, troop visits and hands-on sessions with the cars.
YMCA
Programs reaching young people across the Research Triangle.
The Governor Morehead School for the Blind
Days built so that a car is something you can hear, touch and sit in — not just look at.
Carolina Exotic Car Club
The campus, the workshop and the members who bring the cars.
Scholarships
Apply for a scholarship.
Apply for a semester at Ride of Your Life Academy, hosted by and located at the Carolina Exotic Car Club. Learn about and be inspired by automobiles. This program is for teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18, and runs as a ten-session semester.
Community grants
Support for work we believe in.
We make small grants to organizations working with young people in the Research Triangle — schools, youth groups, support organizations and community programs. Tell us what you would do with it.
Another way to help
Scholarships are funded by donations.
Every donation goes toward a place on a course or a day a child will not forget.