Honoring Light, Love & Hope
MADD NATIONAL CANDLELIGHT TRIBUTE 2025
In Honor of MADD’s 45th Anniversary
MADD’s 45th Anniversary isn’t just a milestone-it’s a time to reflect, to rise, and to rally around the mission that’s brought us here.
We’re still here because of the people who refused to be silenced. Because victims and survivors chose to speak out. Because supporters across the country continue to say,
“This matters.”
Now, we want you to take the spotlight. This is your opportunity to share who you are fighting for, who you’re honoring, and what keeps you fighting.
Please light a candle and share your story or your loved one’s story, a special poem, or a memory or thought that expresses why “this matters”. Every person is important, and MADD is together with you in remembering and honoring each life taken or injured by drunk and drugged driving crashes. All candles will be displayed below.
Thank you for sharing – our hearts and our thoughts are with everyone impacted by these preventable crimes.
If you are looking to create an online tribute that will be live all year round, please visit our Victim/Survivor Tributes and Memorials page found below:
Create a Year-Long Tribute & Memorial
Twice a year, during Crime Victims Rights Week in April and also during the Week of Thanksgiving, MADD hosts special online Candlelight Tributes. During those times, this webpage will allow participants to light a candle in honor of themselves (if they were injured) or a love one. If you are looking to create an online tribute that will be live all year round, please visit our Victim/Survivor Tributes and Memorials page found here: https://www.madd.org/tributesandmemorials
“You Always Have a Place”
We join our communities across the country, to light a candle for the hundreds of thousands of people whose lives have changed forever because of impaired driving.
Each person whose life was taken or who has experienced an injury will always have a place in our hearts. Your memories and their legacies live on in your actions, in your advocacy, and in your commitment to prevent further tragedies. Please consider lighting a candle here with a name and a special message.
To make even more impact, consider sharing your tribute on your social media pages, encouraging people to not only take part in this activation, but also encouraging them to get involved with MADD and the important work to end impaired driving.
To learn more about how you can get involved check out our get involved page: Get Involved
The candle in their name is proof of the light and love each person named here still brings to our world every day.
Each of these candles represents someone whose life has been taken or affected by drunk or drugged driving. These are siblings, sons, daughters, parents, partners and friends from across the country.
The candle in their name is proof of the light and love each person named here still brings to our world every day.
Each of these candles represents someone whose life has been taken or affected by drunk or drugged driving. These are siblings, sons, daughters, parents, partners and friends from across the country.
Several times a year, MADD hosts a special online candlelight tribute to virtually light candles and share thoughts and stories to honor and remember those impacted by impaired driving crashes. The 2024 National Crime Victims’ Rights Tribute was an amazing success with many of you sharing – if you had been a part of that tribute, thank you – your words and efforts bring awareness and support in a way that is so very special. Even though that event is over – we plan to host our next online candlelight vigil starting the week of Thanksgiving and running through the end of the year. This will be in conjunction and to highlight MADD’s National Day of Remembrance. We hope that you come back to this page during that time to activate around this special feature.
If you are looking to create an online tribute that will be live all year round, please visit our Victim/Survivor Tributes and Memorials page found below:
National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW) is a time to come together to acknowledge and honor each of the lives impacted by substance-impaired driving crashes. This year NCVRW falls on April 21-27, 2024 – which is also National Volunteer Week. With the theme of: “How would you help? Options, services, and hope for crime survivors.” We both honor those impacted and thank and acknowledge the volunteers both victims and non-victims alike who are Making MADD Moments and making a difference. Our amazing volunteers come together with tireless support and lasting impact to not only reach our ultimate goal of No More Victims but to also support those who have already been impacted by these crimes.
As we focus on NCVRW this year- please consider lighting a candle and sharing your impact for our special candlelight tribute. You can share this with others through social media to spread the message, thank you for being a part of MADD: