Milestones Over The Years
It was in this year, that Candace Lightner founded MADD. Back then it was called "Mothers Against Drunk Drivers".
What is 1980?
This Federal Act that would require the development and implementation of advanced passive technology to be installed on new vehicles is being strongly supported by MADD.
What is the HALT/RIDE Act?
This month designated for Power Talk 21, appropriately coincides with National Alcohol Awareness Month.
What is April?
He was the very first male MADD National President.
Who is Glynn Birch?
Pay periods for MADD employees run for 14 days in a row, with each pay period ending on this day of the week.
What is Sunday?
It was in this year that President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Federal Minimum Drinking Age Act to increase the legal age from 18 to 21, not to be confused with the title of a famous George Orwell novel.
What is 1984?
The Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving (CEDD) officially kicked off during this year, holding a blue ribbon panel in New Mexico to study how drunk driving can be eliminated.
What is 2006?
MADD's Underage Drinking Prevention Initiative is comprised of Power of Parents, Power of Youth and this third key program.
What is Power of Community?
Candlelight vigils are a key way to show the impact of drunk driving and provide the opportunity for victims to gather together. The very first one was held in 1981 in this state.
What is California?
This federal holiday is also the very first paid holiday of each calendar year for MADD employees.
What is President's Day?
In this year while computer technicians were preparing for "Y2K", President Bill Clinton signed a Federal Law lowering the legal BAC limit to .08.
What is 2000?
34 of 50 states have passed all offender ignition interlock laws. This state was the very first one to have this "new" law.
What is New Mexico?
Three-fourths of teens say that this group of people are the leading influence on their decisions to drink alcohol.
What are Parents?
More MADD National Presidents have come out of this state than any other.
What is Florida?
In Adaptive, running Variance Report 2.0 will show you all consolidated revenue and expenses, while Variance Report 4.0 will show only this?
What are unrestricted revenue and expenses?
In this year, the Board of Directors unanimously voted to change MADD's mission statement to include, "prevent underage drinking".
What is 1999?
Along with passage of all-offender ignition interlock laws in every state, and implementation of advance technology, this key component of the CEDD strategy will always be needed to detect and remove drunk drivers from our roads.
What is (supporting) High Visible Enforcement?
Having researched the impact of drinking alcohol for many years as a professor at Penn State University, he is considered to be the primary researcher and author of the Power of Parents Handbook.
Who is Dr. Robert Turrisi?
Over 300,000 ribbons are distributed annually between Thanksgiving and New Years as part of TOOFS, our longest running public awareness campaign. Back in 1986 it was called this.
What is Project Red Ribbon?
In grant coding, the "F" letter used in "FVOC" stands for "Federal" as its general source of funding, while a grant with an "NFED" project code means the funding source comes from this.
What is "Non Federal?"
The earliest known usage of the term "Designated Driver" was used by MADD in this year. Since then, "designated driver" has become a household term.
What is 1986?
The average drunk driver has driven this many times before a first arrest.
What is 80 times?
Styles of parenting with teens can be grouped into 4 major styles. This style tends to get the worse results when it comes to underage drinking. If you don't like it, "it's my way or the highway!"
What is authoritarian.
The nation's deadliest bus crash occurred in 1988 when a wrong way drunk driver hit a bus traveling on I-71 near Carrolton, Kentucky. 27 people were killed in this tragedy as they were traveling back home from a trip to this amusement park in Ohio.
What is Kings Island?
You can put this type of request in on a JIRA ticket to request Legal Support, such as for charitable registration or trademark issues.
What is a "Z Request"?