Every year we hold a memorial sales event in honor of our former owner and founder, Jim Taylor. Jim was born March 12th, 1944 and died March 25th, 2014. In 2015, the first annual Jim Taylor Memorial sales event was held at Jim Taylor Chevrolet, donating over $15,000 to the St. Joseph Hospice Foundation, which cared for Jim in his final days. Over the last 9 years, our auto group has been able to donate over $217,000 to several amazing programs that support our community in so many ways.
You can read more about the life of Jim Taylor here
Below are the different organizations and initiatives that have been supported over the years.
In 2026, the Annual Jim Taylor Memorial Event was honored to support the Tarver Braddock Foundation with a donation of $15,184.09. Established in 2024 to honor and celebrate the life of Tarver Braddock, the foundation spreads love, laughter, and happiness through random acts of kindness. Through scholarships, sponsorships, surprise gifts, and other forms of community support, the foundation strives to make a meaningful difference in the lives of people and organizations throughout our community and beyond.
In 2023 and 2024, the Annual Jim Taylor Memorial Event supported the growth of the Signs of Suicide Program, an initiative of the Children’s Coalition of Northeast Louisiana. We believe suicide prevention starts with education. Our support helped the program expand its reach from local middle schools into high schools, giving more students access to important education and resources. Read more about this here
The 8th annual Jim Taylor Memorial event supported the Food Bank of NELA and the John Clarke Perry Foundation. Each organization received $16,000 to further their efforts to help those in need, whether that is food needs or medical needs. You can Learn more here
For our 7th annual Jim Taylor Memorial Sales Event, our dealerships raised a combined total of $32,100. The proceeds were distributed between the Desiard Street Center, now known as The Renewal Center, and the Salvation Army of Louisiana. You can learn more here.
In 2020, the 6th Jim Taylor Memorial Sales Event raised and donated $20,000 to the Front Door for Housing Program, an organization created by The United Way, The Wellspring, and The Home Coalition with the goal of getting homeless people off the streets. You can read more here, here, and here.
For the fifth annual Jim Taylor Memorial Sales Event, we were able to donate almost $25,000 to The Arc Of Ouachita, an organization that strives to empower persons with developmental disabilities and their families to have quality lives through instruction, support, and opportunity.You can learn more here and here
In 2018, we were able to support Med Camps of Louisiana for our 4TH annual Jim Taylor Memorial Sales Event. We were able to donate nearly $20,000 to support the residential summer camp for children living with chronic illness and disabilities.You can learn more here and here
In 2017, we split our proceeds from the third Jim Taylor Memorial Sales event between the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Louisiana and the Louisiana Pediatric Cardiology Foundation. We were able to donate a combined total of over $20,000 to these two organizations.
For our second annual Jim Taylor Memorial Sales event, we chose to support the Wellspring’s Services for Homeless Veterans, which includes transitioning veterans into homes. This year, we were able to donate $23,000 in honor of Jim.
Our first annual Jim Taylor Memorial Sales event benefited the St. Joseph’s Hospice Foundation, which is the organization that cared for Jim during his final days. In his memory, we were able to donate $15,000 to this foundation.
