During 2011, Toyota managed to give away a new Toyota to 100 different non-profit groups in the US with its "100 Cars for Good" program. It goes without saying that the project was a big hit with non-profits, local communities, and everyday Toyota fans alike. All non-profits had to do was submit  an application, explaining how a new vehicle could benefit their cause and further engage with their community.

Seeing as the program was such…

Toyota feels that when coping with below-normal production levels, it's better to take a glass-half-full approach. As such, the Japanese automaker isn't sitting back leaving their employees to sit idly by consumed by worry. Rather, they're supporting, and even paying, employees to take time on no-production days to lend a helping hand with a variety of community service efforts.

For example, one-hundred-plus Toyota employees recently reported for "work" at the Golden Girl Group Home. Located in Wayne Country, West Virginia, the home offers asylum to teen girls removed from abusive situations. Toyota employees took a no-production day…