From You, to Me, to You

With most people, the word "cab" has a negative connotation. "Cab" often triggers words such as "dirty," "theft," and "murder." For this very reason, one of the members of the Green Team did not tell her mother that she was working for one of those cab companies, until she had already been employed for nearly two months.

 It is actually a very comical story. Her mother does not live in the valley, and on one vacation she visited her daughter and happened to see a Clean Air Cab car while at a red light. She turned to her daughter and said, "That cab is the most darling cab I have ever seen." Her daughter then spent the next 30 minutes explaining to her mother that she worked for that company…..

I’m going to use this story as an analogy. While one does not think of a cab company as having any sort of real impact on society, perhaps we too need to be at a red light, and observe our surroundings to gain a new perspective and see the good one small, local company can bring to a community. Clean Air Cab has what we call charity cabs. One dollar from every ride in one of these charity cabs goes towards the charity sponsored on the cab. We do not place ads on our cars; people do not pay Clean air Cab money to have their business posted on the side. Our company is different, because we like to give money. We have a Susan G. Komen cab that runs year round, because we feel that the fight for breast cancer is every day, not just one recognized month. We have five Mesa United Way cabs, whose funding goes towards this community to make a difference HERE. It supports wonderful organizations such as Helen’s Hope Chest, to help clothe foster children because of budget cuts. We also have a cab that is for the Phoenix Children's Hospital, so we can give children a second chance at life.

In addition to these cabs, we have two new cabs that generate money for scholarships at Arizona State University. Do you know of any other cab company that can provide a future for your children and give them a chance at an education that they may have never achieved otherwise? Probably not~ because Clean Air is not your typical cab company. You give to us, and in return we give back to you.

The reason why we are not your typical cab company is entirely dependent on YOU. We offer a product, and you chose to use it. Because you chose us, instead another company, YOU planted over 5000 trees in Brazil, YOU brought jobs and opportunity to our community, YOU helped thousands of children battle childhood disease, YOU consumed less fuel than the year before, YOU raised $5,458 for breast cancer since 2009, YOU raised over $2,000 for the children’s hospital since April 2011, YOU are providing education opportunities, YOU are benefitting your community, YOU are actually being “green” and helping the environment instead of paying for a concept because of the vehicles we use and the fact that we have zero carbon footprint.

Ghandi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.”

 You can be that change.

Be part of the solution.