Helping people move toward economic self sufficiency.
A car takes you far!
Who We Help
The Samaritan Car Care Clinic works on a referral basis with Northern Kentucky social service agencies to help low-income families in Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties with car repairs. Repairs are done using a shared-cost model with the goal of helping the families get to their jobs and stay on the path to self-sufficiency.
What We Do
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Change engine oil
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Replace air filters
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Replace wiper blades
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Replace bulbs
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Top-off fluids
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Inflate tires
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General car repairs
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Who We Are
The Samaritan Car Care Clinic offers a lifeline to working poor families in Northern Kentucky. Our services enable these families to maintain their cars, allowing them to access jobs and transport family members to school and health care appointments.
“This is a great service. It is different than what others provide. Others do the normal services like food, but changing my oil is so great because my car is important to me. If I can’t get to my job, I can’t pay my bills.”
– Samaritan Car Care Clinic Participant
Thank you to…
Referral Partners
Financial Sponsors
That car in your driveway isn't just taking up space.
Someone in Northern Kentucky needs it to get to work.
Here are 5 signs it's time to donate — not trade in:
✓ You haven't driven it in months
✓ The repair bill isn't worth it
✓ You're buying something new and the trade-in value disappoints
✓ It doesn't run and you don't know what to do with it
✓ You want your giving to mean something you can see
When you donate to Samaritan Car Care Clinic, your car stays here in NKY. Our mechanics fix it up. A working family gets the keys.
Tax-deductible receipt. Real, local impact.
Not ready to donate a car? A cash gift makes the same kind of local impact.
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Magnified Giving is a Cincinnati based philanthropy that has as part of its mission to donate money to schools and youth organizations. Those organizations, in turn, use those funds to support non-profits of their choice.
Each year Magnified Giving provides multiple Boys & Girls Clubs in the Greater Cincinnati area seed money for grants. Students at the Boys & Girls Clubs then do research on non-profits and select one to receive a grant.
The Samaritan Car Care Clinic is very fortunate to have received a grant from the Boys & Girls Club of Newport, as well as the Boys & Girls Club of Covington.
Photos are of the students presenting the “big check” from each club at an event held on March 31, 2026, at the Boys & Girls Club in West Price Hill. As part of that event, each group presented the background of the non-profit, and why the group of students selected that non-profit.
Students from the Covington Club also came and helped clean a donated Equinox last week.
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Two great organizations!!
That’s amazing !
The Samaritan Car Care Clinic is fortunate to have enough dedicated volunteers that there is a volunteer-led maintenance event at least once each month.
Jon Allis led a team of volunteers this past Saturday, April 25, 2026, offering complementary oil changes primarily for residents of Brighton Center Scholar House in Newport.
The Clinic celebrates its great volunteers who offer a hand up to struggling families with complementary vehicle maintenance. Together we make progress addressing transportation barriers!
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Earlier this year, the Clinic received a referral for Hailey B. Hailey is in a job training program at Brighton Center to become a medical assistant. Brighton Center was able to help Hailey find an externship however this required a commute. Hailey’s former vehicle was so rusty, multiple mechanic shops had told her it was not safe to drive. Hailey could not find any other vehicle options that didn’t require thousands of dollars.
The Samaritan Car Care Clinic fortunately received a donated Nissan Maxima earlier this year. After repairs, the Maxima has found a new home with Hailey as of mid-April! Now Hailey has safe, affordable, and reliable transportation that will allow her to complete her externship, which will hopefully lead to a new career.
We wish Hailey the best as she opens a new chapter in her life!
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"I truly don't know where I'd be without them." — Hope, SCCC Client.
This is why we do what we do. Every oil change. Every repair. Every single day.
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The Samaritan Car Care Clinic was nominated for a LINK nky Reader's Choice Award for best non-profit in the NKY Living Category. Voting is open now through May 4th and you can vote once per day.Voting is officially open! Cast your votes for your NKY favorites here: linknky.com/readerschoice-2026/
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Which category do I have to choose? I can't seem to find the Samaritan Car Care Clinic under "Services - Auto Repair"!
I can’t get anyone from there to return my calls, emails, or the organization that referred me. For months now
On March 3, 2026, Quorm Events held its first Cincinnati Non-profit Capital Project Symposium. Northern KY’s Catalytic Fund and the Samaritan Car Care Clinic were two of the dozen plus presenters spread across three panels covering multiple growth and building expansion topics.
Clinic Director Bruce Kintner was part of the first panel that included Tara Noland from Ignite Philanthropy; Colleen Reynolds from governmental consulting firm DSD Advisors; and Joe Klare from the Catalytic Fund. The moderator for the first panel was Meg Corwin, owner of Adavie Consulting. It was a wonderful opportunity to share the great partnership the Clinic has with the Catalytic Fund. ... See MoreSee Less
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On Saturday, March 7th, the Junior League of Cincinnati held its Women Doing A World of Good Fundraiser at Memorial Hall. The featured speaker was Elizabeth Smart, a survivor of a childhood abduction.
As part of the program, the Junior League included 10 area non-profits that align with the League’s focus on helping women. The Samaritan Car Care Clinic was honored to be one of the ten non-profits selected to set up a display table during the reception. It was very appropriate that the Clinic’s table was right beside the table for The Women’s Fund of Greater Cincinnati Foundation, since the Women’s Fund has been a big supporter of the Clinic’s work.
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On February 24, 2026, Beechwood Elementary hosted a Changemaker discussion panel for the students.
Samaritan Car Care Clinic Director, Bruce Kintner, was honored to be one of nine panelists selected from a very broad range of Northern Kentuckians. Some of the panel members were Mayor Ron Washington of Covington; the operators of the Olla restaurant in Covington; Karen Finan of the OneNKY Alliance; and former fighter pilot and now Senate candidate Amy McGrath.
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