{"id":9383,"date":"2020-06-01T19:34:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sossaferide.org\/?p=9383"},"modified":"2020-06-01T19:34:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:34:25","slug":"safe-ride-foundation-turns-5-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sossaferide.org\/safe-ride-foundation-turns-5-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe Ride Foundation Turns 5 Years Old!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9385&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][vc_empty_space][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 21px; font-family: pinchik; color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-size: 36px;\">A<\/span>s 2020 rages on. The Safe Ride Foundation is proud to announce that it is officially celebrating 5 fantastic years of service to the Frederick County Community!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Time flies, doesn&#8217;t it!? &#8230;and in<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u00a0the past 5 years we&#8217;ve been proud to have accomplished some pretty amazing things in our area, here are some of the highlights!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px; font-family: pinchik; color: #000080;\">We launched the SOS Safe Ride program in 2016 after the community came together to help us raise the necessary resources and funding to make it happen.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px; font-family: pinchik; color: #000080;\">Since it&#8217;s inception, the program has completed nearly 14,000 rides home in Frederick County to intoxicated citizens!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px; font-family: pinchik; color: #000080;\">We gained the support of the nearly 80 alcohol-serving establishments from Frederick, to Thurmont, to Mt Airy and so much more.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px; font-family: pinchik; color: #000080;\">We&#8217;ve held three amazing installments of the Over the Limit Comedy Fest, featuring performances by Myq Kaplan, Maria Bamford, and Matt Braunger.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px; font-family: pinchik; color: #000080;\">We&#8217;ve partnered with over 40 globally and locally renowned brands every year to collaborate with our anti-drunk driving mission.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px; font-family: pinchik; color: #000080;\">We&#8217;ve given over 8,000 breathalyzer tests to intoxicated citizens with the Pump Your Brakes Booth program<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px; font-family: pinchik; color: #000080;\">In 2018 we established the Safe Ride Foundation Angel Fund for drunk driving victim relief, raising over $6,000 for families affected by drunk driving since it&#8217;s creation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px; font-family: pinchik; color: #000080;\">In 2019 we created the &#8220;Steered Straight&#8221; Program for drunk driver rehabilitation, helping drunk driving offenders atone for their mistakes in an effective way.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px; font-family: pinchik; color: #000080;\">And finally, we were the proud winners of the Frederick County Impact Club Award in 2019, making headlines throughout the region while being awarded a grant for $30,000 to further our programs!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: pinchik; font-size: 18px; color: #000080;\">In addition to all of these great things, the thing we&#8217;re most proud of is the fact that we&#8217;ve helped to start a trend of safety in our area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: pinchik; font-size: 18px; color: #000080;\">We all know that we shouldn&#8217;t drink and drive, we hope no one is oblivious to that.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: pinchik; font-size: 18px; color: #000080;\">However, it still happens every day, and reckless decisions are still made in that state of intoxication. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: pinchik; font-size: 18px; color: #000080;\">Our goal is to be the last line of defense between a bar-goer and a DUI or worse; and that doesn&#8217;t start with a ride service, it starts with a mindset.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: pinchik; color: #000080;\">We&#8217;ve always been lucky, but that&#8217;s because we have a support system in all of you; and as we often say, you guys help us to create our OWN luck.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: pinchik; color: #000080;\">So thank you all for your support over the last 5 years, it&#8217;s truly been an honor and a blessing to serve this community, and on behalf of the Safe Ride Foundation, we love and appreciate everything you did to help us get here.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: pinchik; font-size: 18px; color: #000080;\">Stay safe, make a plan, and we&#8217;ll see you very soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-family: pinchik; font-size: 18px;\">-The Safe Ride Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9385&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][vc_empty_space][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] As 2020 rages on. The Safe Ride Foundation is proud to announce that it is officially celebrating 5 fantastic years of service to the Frederick County Community! [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Time flies, doesn&#8217;t it!? &#8230;and in\u00a0the past 5 years we&#8217;ve been proud to have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sossaferide.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5-Years.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sossaferide.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sossaferide.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sossaferide.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sossaferide.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sossaferide.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sossaferide.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sossaferide.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sossaferide.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sossaferide.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sossaferide.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}