Community Involvement
Splash Out Polio Swimathon
March 2017
Ben Mynatt Sponsors "Splash Out Polio Swimathon"
CONCORD — The Rotary Club of Cabarrus County held their 5th annual Splash Out Polio Swimathon on Saturday as part of a global fundraising campaign to fight polio around the world. Rotary clubs from around the world hosted similar swimathons to raise money. Each dollar raised is matched by Bill and Melinda Gates, with the couple pledging to donate up to $35 million to the program. One dollar can buy five vaccines, officials said. The local swimathon was held at the West Cabarrus YMCA in Concord on Saturday. Organizers are still taking donations. Visit http://www.cabarrusrotary.org/events/rotary-global-swimarathon to donate to the program. Rotary clubs from around the world have been organizing the fundraiser since 1985, when Rotary International decided to focus its efforts on eradicating deadly polio. At the time there were about 400,000 cases per year in the world. Rotary International has donated $1.6 billion and countless volunteer hours to immunize more than 2.5 billion children in 122 countries. Thanks to Rotary's efforts and its partners, there were less than 100 cases in three countries in 2016.
Source: Independent Tribune
Cannon Memorial YMCA Check Presentation
January 2017
Ben Mynatt Family of Dealerships is honored to join our community dealerships, and Charlotte International Auto Show in presenting a check to benefit Cannon YMCA. What a tremendous, non-profit organization that strives to make our community healthy!
Christmas Eve Breakfast
December 2016
Celebrating the spirit of Christmas at the 41st Annual Ben Mynatt Christmas Eve Breakfast. We prepare and serve breakfast every Christmas Eve to our community and each year our total number of people that attend keeps going higher and higher! Please stop by if you’re in town on Christmas Eve and join us!
Ben Mynatt Children’s Foundation Check Presentation
November 2016
The Ben Mynatt Children's Foundation provides financial assistance to non-profits whose missions seek to improve the lives of children of Cabarrus County. Specific focus is on those serving children with physical, mental, or economic disadvantages. As of this year, we have distributed over $692,500 in cumulative giving to children's groups in our region.
Last year, the following charitable organizations received proceeds from the tournament in excess of $67,000 to help children in our community:
- The Academic Learning Center
- The ARC
- Big Brothers & Big Sisters
- The Boys & Girls Club of Cabarrus County
- Boy Scouts of America
- Cabarrus County Education Foundation
- Communities in Schools
- Joyful Hearts
- Junior Charity League of Concord
- Kannapolis Education Foundation
- Piedmont Residential Development Center
- Safe Kids Cabarrus
- The Salvation Army
- Special Olympics - Cabarrus County
- The Toy Store
- Wings of Eagle Ranch
Chevy Youth Baseball
September 2016
Cyndie Mynatt presented a check to David Darwin of Northwest Recreation League this morning. Chevy Youth Baseball sponsored his league this year!
Community Blood Drive
July 2016
A BIG thanks to the Community Blood Center of the Carolinas and all the folks who came to donate! We hold a community blood drive usually twice a year. So if you're in the area please consider stopping by and donating some much needed blood for our community. CBCC collects blood from the community to return it to the community at the lowest possible cost, consistent with the highest standards of quality.
Chevy Youth Baseball
June 2016
Ben Mynatt Chevrolet is proud to participate in the Chevrolet Youth Baseball sponsorship program. Upon completion of test drives today, a sponsorship donation will be made to Northwest Recreation League. We put our game face on and made some great friends today!
Habit for Humanity Cabarrus County – Women Build!
May 2016
The ladies of Ben Mynatt Family of Dealerships thoroughly enjoyed helping Julie build her home for her and her 5 granddaughters with Habitat for Humanity Cabarrus County. A special thanks to Katie Page for organizing Women Build! We hammered A LOT of nails, installed windows, climbed ladders, hung blue board, and made some fantastic new friends!
JDRF Walk
April 2016
The Ben Mynatt crew had an awesome morning participating in the JDRF Walk. We "Dabbed" For A Cure, and won 1st place with our t-shirts! Great family event, and for a worthy cause.
Cannon Memorial YMCA Check Presentation
February 2015
Representatives from Cabarrus County's new car dealers, including the Ben Mynatt Family of Dealerships, present a check to the Cannon Memorial YMCA. Proceeds from the 2014 Charlotte International Auto Show allowed us to donate a total of $11,250!
Saved by community support, Mynatt back in high gear
June 2011
CONCORD, N.C. — Ben Mynatt Chevrolet Cadillac has made quite a comeback. Two years ago, the 36-year-old dealership was one of 1,800 dealerships GM targeted for closure. Today, it’s not only profitable, but on June 13 it was awarded GM’s highest honor, the Mark of Excellence Award.
The award recognizes “outstanding GM dealerships for achieving a superior sales volume, having an exceptional dedication to customer service and satisfaction,” according a company website. For owner Cyndie Mynatt, the award is redemptive.
Mynatt, whose Buick GMC dealership next door also won the award this year, bought Ben Mynatt Chevrolet Cadillac from a family member in 2008, just months before GM announced the closures. “They had used the performance metrics of the previous management,” she said, which is why Ben Mynatt was one of the dealerships scheduled for closure.
Over the next several months, thousands of Cabarrus County residents took part in a letter-writing campaign aimed at swaying GM’s position. They received support from government and business leaders, the Concord City Council and the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners.
Eventually, GM officials told Mynatt her dealership could be reinstated if it met certain standards for profitability and customer satisfaction.
“We called it double secret probation,” Mynatt said with a chuckle.
“In 2011, when they came to us and said ‘OK, you can have it back if you perform,’ we knew we could do it, so that’s when we made the big announcement to the community that we’re back,” she said. But it wasn’t until June 13 — the same day the dealership received its Mark of Excellence Award — that it also received a letter confirming its reinstatement.
“It’s kind of ironic,” Mynatt said. She said the outpouring of community support and the letter-writing campaign helped save the dealership, and she put the letters in a binder.
“I keep that book of letters on the podium in the showroom,” she said. “That is our moral compass for all of us at the dealership.
“I’ll spend the rest of my life trying to live up to the nice things they said about us.”
Source: Independent Tribune
