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The Subaru Love Promise® is our vision to show love and respect to all people at every interaction with Subaru. Subaru and our retailers believe every day gives us an opportunity to positively impact the world around us – by how we support each other, our customers, and our community. Together, we are committed to making the world a better place.
The Love Promise is what makes Subaru More Than a Car Company® and a Subaru retailer More Than a Car Dealer®. It sets a standard that we are committed to living every day.
Providing comfort, hope, and confidence to children in urgent need
Subaru and its retailers partner with Operation Warm® to visit local homeless shelters and support agencies to provide children with brand-new necessities like coats, shoes, and socks.
These essential items not only help keep children protected, warm, and dry, they can also have a significant impact on a child’s mental and emotional well-being.
Through this partnership and other historical Subaru Loves to Help efforts, Subaru and retailers like us will have supported over 1 million children and adults in urgent need nationwide.
At Subaru, we believe what we leave behind is a reflection of who we are. That’s why Subaru and our retailers partner with the Arbor Day Foundation (TM) to provide and distribute 100,000 regionally appropriate trees across the country. We’re proud to establish the largest corporate tree distribution ever. Through this and other Subaru Loves the Earth initiatives, Subaru and our retailers have helped distribute and plant over 1.1 million trees.
Subaru believes we should all have a chance to lead a healthy life. That’s why for over 10 years, Subaru and its retailers like us have partnered with Blood Cancer United® and our local hospital to give warm blankets and encouraging messages of hope, written by our employees and customers, to support our community members living with cancer. Through our combined efforts during this partnership, we have supported over 550,000 cancer patients nationwide. Together, we are proud to be Blood Cancer United’s largest automotive donor.
Subaru and its retailers, like us, are continuing our support of education and high-needs schools in our communities through Subaru Loves Learning(R) by providing teachers across the country with funding to purchase the school supplies and resources they know are needed to help students thrive in the classroom. Through our partnership with AdoptAClassroom.org, Subaru and its retailers have supported more than 950,000 students nationwide and are proud to be their largest corporate supporter.
Subaru believes all pets deserve a loving home. That's why retailers like us partner with our local animal welfare organization every October to provide direct financial assistance through a grant distributed by the ASPCA® and host pet events to help animals find loving homes. Through our partnership with local and national organizations, Subaru has donated over $70 million, supporting the rescue, adoption, and health of over 700,000 animals. We're proud to be the largest corporate donor to the ASPCA.
Subaru and its retailers believe in giving back to our communities. That's why for every new vehicle sold or leased during the Subaru Share the Love event, Subaru and its retailers, like us, makes a donation to national charities that our owners care about and to over 2,700 local charities where Subaru owners live and work.
Now, after 17 years, Subaru and our retailers have donated nearly $320 million to charity all to give back and to make the world a better place.
Maguire Subaru takes pride in supporting our surrounding community. Whether it's through community oil changes, family fun events or partnering with local charities to raise funds for a good cause, Maguire Subaru is proud to be a part of the Subaru Love Promise.
Tompkins County SPCA|The Humane Society of Schuyler County
United Way of Tompkins|Cops Kids and Toys|Advocay Center|Second Wind Cottages|Friends of IYB|Greater Ithaca Activities Center
Family Reading Partnership|Franziska Rackers Center|Ithaca Science Center
Sustainable Tompkins County|American Red Cross Tompkins Co|Cornell Co Op Ext.|Ithaca Childrens Garden
Hospicare of Tompkins County|Aids Ride for Life|Cayuga Medical Center Fo.|Cancer Resource Center of FL|Hospicare
Subaru and Maguire Subaru of Ithaca believe in making a positive impact on the communities in which we live and work. We uphold that belief through our Love Promise Community Commitment. Every month, we select inspiring stories from customers and partners from around our area who strive to support our collective commitment and feature them here.
When families have more than one child in need of coats, the cost can sometimes be the difference between each child getting what they need to stay warm, or one going without. Subaru and Operation Warm helps ensure every child gets what they need. The gift of coats not only provides children with warmth in the winter but also provides safety, the ability to play outside and develop skills and muscles. Playing with peers creates important social relationships and makes certain that all children can participate. Maguire Subaru provides all of this and more. Cory and his staff are involved throughout the whole process, from ordering to set up, and distribution. Our program is grateful not only for the support of the coats but for the recognition and acknowledgement. Our deepest thanks go out to Operation Warm, Subaru, and Maguire.
Imagine going without a coat, shoes, or even socks. For millions of children and adults experiencing homelessness and other urgent need situations across the country, even here in Ithaca, this is a harsh reality. Helping others strengthens communities, which is why Maguire Subaru is partnering with Operation Warm®, a national nonprofit focused on connecting children with the resources they need to thrive. Through this partnership and other Subaru Loves to Help® efforts, Subaru and retailers like Maguire Subaru have helped nearly 900,000 children and adults in urgent need. On 01/14/2025, Maguire Subaru donated 120 shoes/socks to Tompkins Community Action. These essential items not only help keep children protected, warm, and dry, it can have a significant impact on a child's mental and emotional well-being.
THANK YOU and Maguire Subaru again for choosing Shelter Outreach Services (SOS) to receive the Subaru Loves Pets Grant this year! The SPCA of TC is one of our long standing and amazing partners, and I’m so glad we could meet at our clinic check in there today! Thank you to you and Tyler for bringing all of those great donated supplies. We will share with all of the shelters in the region (SPCA of TC, Central NY Spay Neuter Assistance Program, Chemung County SPCA, Humane Society of Schuyler County, Cortland County SPCA, Beverly Animal Shelter, Finger Lakes SPCA of CNY, Central NY Cat Coalition and the Broome County Humane Society). Please thank your team who donated so generously, these supplies will make a difference to so many animals all over the region!
This year, Maguire Subaru has partnered with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) and Cayuga Medical Center thru Subaru Loves to Care initiative. The partnership has involved delivery of blankets and messages of HOPE to cancer patients. This summer, Subaru delivered these items for cancer patients in treatment and we are forever grateful for this partnership.
In January 2024, Tompkins Community Action was honored and fortunate to receive hundreds of children’s new winter coats through the Maguire Subaru Loves to Help / Operation Warm program. Through this generous donation, Tompkins Community Action’s young Head Start and Supportive Housing participants were able to choose their very own new winter coat. Winter coats mean comfort, security, and more time playing outside! Seeing the joy on children’s faces when they put on their new coats was priceless. For families receiving coats, this financial boost meant they could allocate money toward other necessities for their home. Cory and the staff at Maguire Subaru were helpful each step of the way, providing resources and assisting with the coat give away event. On the day of the event, Maguire Subaru and Tompkins Community Action staff ensured each child received their ideal coat – with a perfect fit and color. While the gift of a coat might seem small, providing the gift of warmth to our youngsters helps them know they are cared about and loved. Our tremendous thanks go out to Maguire Subaru and Operation Warm.
Cortland, NY's CNY SNAP shelter had a great month, full of adoptions and donations! Working with Subaru has been a dream come true and has allowed us to receive the full $3100, since we had 31 adoptions, that the Subaru Loves Pet's initiative promised. We have quite a few awesome adoption stories to share. One includes one of our FIV+ cats, which is considered a Subaru Underdog and also got a 'bonded pair' adopted (two cats that we did not want going to separate homes). Although we did not have a specific event hosted with Subaru, we had 3 extra special events during October. On October 15th, we had a fundraiser, on October 21st and 22nd, we had a kitten adoption event, and October 29th was a shelter open house. Image 1: Laura getting comfortable in her new home Image 2: Jerry Boots enjoying new toys at home Image 3: Vegas settled in her home to first time cat owners
The Foodnet Meals on Wheels mission is to provide meals and other nutrition services that promote dignity, well-being, and independence for older adults and other persons who live in Tompkins County. We provide daily healthy meals, nutrition counseling, and safety checks to over 400 vulnerable seniors. As a 501 (C)3, we face challenges that many nonprofit organizations grapple with daily. The process of acquiring resources can be arduous, with varying results, disrupting our ability to provide services to our clients. Funding from businesses, foundations, government entities, and generous community members is essential and helps us combat inflation and rising costs. Maguire Family of Dealerships goes above and beyond to provide us with resources to enable our mission to continue. We have received monetary support from Subaru of America and the Maguire Family of Dealerships and Maguire Subaru from the national Subaru Share The Love® Event. The local Maguire Subaru of Ithaca team made the campaign process easy and rewarding, demonstrating their commitment to the community where their employees live and work. Throughout the months-long campaign, Maguire selected Foodnet as their “Hometown Charity” of choice, generating donations for every new Subaru vehicle sold or leased and raised over $15k for our organization in 2022-2023. Not only does Maguire Family of Dealerships support Foodnet, their staff are very active in so many other charities. While monetary support is helpful, their staff also volunteer for different nonprofits across Tompkins County. There are many nonprofits in our area, and Maguire provides various resources for as many as they can with the resources they have. We are appreciative of their efforts!
Fonzie was brought to the Humane Society of Schuyler County after law enforcement removed three dogs and another cat from their residence. His body was covered in scabs from flea dermatitis, he had an abscess on his neck requiring immediate veterinary care, and he was FIV positive. Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is one of the most common and consequential infectious diseases of cats around the world. The primary mode of transmission for FIV is through bite wounds from an infected cat. However, it is important to note that while it is impossible to predict the survival of a cat infected with FIV, they can live very normal, healthy lives for many years with regular veterinary care. From the minute Fonzie arrived he had a purr you could hear across a room. Once he was neutered, treated for parasites and his wound healed he was ready for the adoption floor. Unfortunately, Fonzie had two strikes against him: he was a “black” cat and FIV positive. Several people met Fonzie but upon hearing “FIV positive” they abruptly dismissed him. On October 29, an older woman came to the shelter, accompanied by her daughter, looking for a cat companion. While the older lady found her kitty, the daughter was immediately drawn to Fonzie. With crossed paws we explained FIV but the adopter was undaunted. And so on November 6, Fonzie went to his furever home! Thanks for your support, Subaru!
Maguire Subaru partnered with the rest of the Maguire Dealerships and Insurance Agencies to do a toy drive for Cops, Kids and Toys. Cops, Kids and Toys is a local charity organization in Tompkins County, New York that collects, purchases and distributes toys to financially disadvantaged kids in our community for the holidays. Maguire collected toys from November to the early part of December and even had a Jeans Day Event for their staff and employees. This event allowed their employees to wear Jeans on a Friday if they donated a toy for the cause. Due to Maguire's generosity with this toy drive, many children will be able to open gifts during this holiday season! Thank you Maguire for all you do to help others in our community!
Ruger came to us from an overcrowdedm rural shelter in North Carolina where he had arrived as a stray, timid and frightened. At just 7 months old, Ruger found himself homeless. With the help of some very caring people, Ruger made the journey to upstate New York with 30 travelling companions. After a few short weeks Ruger gained his confidence (and some weight) and blossomed into a sweet and gentle boy. Several of his travelling buddies were soon adopted, but not Ruger. Until one chilly October morning a family came to meet one of his cohorts, but also met Ruger and it was an instant connection. Just before Halloween he joined his new young family of three young girls. He waits for them to get off the school bus every day, and shares in all of the family adventures! A little love can truly change the world. Thanks to our friends at Maguire Suburu for helping to change life for Ruger.
The Covid - 19 pandemic has had an extraordinary impact on fundraising efforts for not for profits around the area and animal shelters are no exception. At the Humane Society of Schuyler County we work hard to continue to meet the needs of the animals in our care, despite the challenges the pandemic presents. During the October Subaru's Share the Love Event, coordinator Ashley Greenley and the employees of the Maguire Family of Dealerships, pulled out all the stops to support the shelter. While Ashley had initially envisioned a much larger event, the employees pulled together to collect two Subarus full of supplies, food, treats and toys to help us care for our shelter animals. Their generosity was simply overwhelming and has helped us to ready numerous dogs and cats for adoption.
Thanks to our donated Subaru, we will deliver hundreds of blizzard bags to our older adult neighbors in Tompkins County. While Upstate New York is scenic, hazardous road conditions due to inclement weather are inevitable. Foodnet Meals on Wheels delivers blizzard bags that contain four shelf stable meals for our clients to have on hand in case of a weather-related service disruptions. We are fortunate to have generous volunteers to help us pack the bags for delivery. Thank you Subaru for ensuring older adults and others in-need have access to meals regardless of the weather!
Susan is a Foodnet Meals on Wheels participant that we are able to reach with our donated Subaru Outback in rural Tompkins County, NY. She lives in one of our county’s most rural areas. While Upstate NY is scenic, the terrain can be difficult to navigate. Thanks to Subaru, Meals on Wheels is able to deliver for Susan, and many other seniors in this rural community. Each nutritious meal is delivered with a safety check, a friendly visit and compassion. Thank you, Subaru for helping us to make a difference!
We were honored to celebrate our partnership with Subaru at our Annual Mac 'n Cheese Bowl in March. The Bowl is our largest community engagement event and it aligns with Meals on Wheels America's National March for Meals Campaign. During the month of March, meals on wheels programs across the country celebrate collaborations with local community organizations, businesses, and all levels of government to ensure that our seniors are not forgotten. What an honor to have representatives from Subaru and our local retailer, Maguire there with us! The beautiful donated meals on wheels delivery vehicle was the star of the show! Our board members and community had a wonderful time touring the vehicle at the event. Our partnership with Subaru and Meals on Wheels America impacts our community in a very meaningful way. With Subaru behind us, we are able to reach our older adult neighbors that reside in the most rural areas of the county.
On October 24th, Foodnet Meals on Wheels, Maguire Family of Dealerships, and Subaru Distributors Corp. hosted a special media event in honor of Subaru of America's generous vehicle donation. With the help of two creative Ithaca College students, Foodnet prepared a special thank you message that aired at the event.
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, and keeping with its commitment to support local communities nationwide, Subaru of America, Inc. has donated a Meals on Wheels delivery vehicle to Foodnet Meals on Wheels, in partnership with Meals on Wheels America, and Maguire Family of Dealerships. In honor of the donation, Foodnet, Subaru, and Maguire hosted a special delivery event! The Tompkins County, NY community gathered together to celebrate Subaru's generous gift!
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