2025 Impact Awards Winner: Great White Car Wash

Recently, Great White Car Wash partnered with Rise and Shine (R&S) in Calgary. 

R&S is a day program offering volunteer work opportunities to young adults with special needs. 

The collaboration invites R&S participants to work at Great White Car Wash, supported by the on-site team. 

Portfolio manager Kohl Bauml of Meckelborg Financial Group nominated Great White Car Wash for an Impact Award. 

His brother has Down syndrome and works for Cosmopolitan Industries (a group like R&S) in Saskatoon, Sask. 

“I see firsthand the impact and importance of job opportunities for my brother,” he says. “He comes home with a smile each day and loves to tell me about what he did at work that day.” 

Hearing this, the Great White team wanted to provide the same feeling for R&S participants at its facilities. 

Once a week, they clean self-serve wash bays, rinse cars and man pay stations.

The plan is to involve more Great White locations. 

“It's not always the big things that make the largest impact… sometimes doing something so little can mean so much to someone else,” says Bauml. “Simply providing a job opportunity to someone who might not typically get that chance can have a positive and lasting impact.”