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We are honored to be nationally recognized by Subaru of America, Inc. for our dedication to living the Subaru Love Promise.
We have been recognized for staying committed to our community using the principles of HEART: Honesty, Empathy, Appreciation, and Respect to earn your Trust.
Here at Star Subaru, we love making a positive impact on the lives of all of our customers, employees, and neighbors. We thank you for your support.
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.
At Star Subaru, we believe in being a positive force in our community, not just with donations, but with actions that set an example for others to follow. We aim to make the world a better place through several key initiatives that help support and protect people, pets, and our planet:
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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.
Our Love Promise can be seen in various partnerships with local charities and non-profits. We're grateful for the opportunity, not only to be a part of our community, but to serve it as well.
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Subaru and Star Subaru 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.
At Star Subaru, giving back to our community is at the heart of what we do. 💙 We're honored to continue our longstanding partnership with St. Mary's Hospital for Children through the Subaru Loves to Care® initiative. Together, we delivered blankets, patient care kits, and heartfelt Messages of Hope to help bring comfort and encouragement to patients and their families. A sincere thank you to the incredible team at St. Mary's for everything they do every day. We're proud to stand alongside you in making a difference in our community.
At Star Subaru, caring for our community is at the heart of everything we do. On June 19th , our team proudly partnered with St. Mary’s Hospital for Children to bring comfort, warmth, and hope to young patients and their families. As part of the Subaru Loves to Care initiative, we donated 80 cozy blankets and patient care kits, each thoughtfully prepared to support children undergoing medical treatment. These small gestures carry a big message: you are not alone, and your community is here for you. Our team was honored to meet the incredible staff and patients at St. Mary’s, witnessing firsthand the strength, courage, and smiles that inspire us to give back. We believe that kindness goes a long way—and together, we can make a meaningful difference. At Star Subaru, loving the community isn’t just what we do. It’s who we are.
At Star Subaru, helping our neighbors stay warm through the winter is more than a mission, its a promise. As part of th Subaru Loves to Help initiative, our team came together with one goal:to bring comfort and care to those who need it most. Thanks to the incredible generosity of our community partners, Subaru and the Star organization we were able to donate 504 warm winter coats to Lifes Worc and the Belmont child care association, local organizations dedicated to supporting individuals and families facing challenging times.Each coat represents more than warmth, its dignity, protection and a reminder that our community stands together. When we delivered the coats, we saw first hand the impact the intiative has on the lives of children, adults and seniors who will now head into the cold season with a litlle more comfort and a lot more hope.At Star Subaru we believe that love is what makes a Subaru a Subaru, and giving back is what makes us Star!We're grateful to everyone who helped make this years coat donation a success, and we look forward to continuing our commitment to helping our community thrive.
At Star Subaru, we believe every small act can grow into something big, sometimes even 100 somethings! On April 15th, as part of our Subaru Loves the Earth initiative, our team gathered together with a simple mission. Distribute 100 trees to members of our community. The morning started quietly, with rows of saplings neatly lined up with each one ready to start a life in a new backyard, park or neighborhood garden.But as the sun rose higher, so did the excitement. Families arrived with kids eager to pick up their tree. Even people who hadn't planned on planting anything this year found themselves inspired by the idea of giving something back to the earth. By 2pm every tree had found its new home. Our lot, once filled with rows of saplings. now stood empty and that emptiness felt great. It meant 100 trees were being planted across our community.It means cleaner air, more shade, more habitats and more life.It means our community came together for something that will last generations. This is what Subaru Loves the Earth is all about.And at Star Subaru, we're proud to help the world gow, one tree at a time.A big thanks to the Arbor Day Foundation for everything they do and for putting this all together!
At Star Subaru, every day starts with a wagging tail, or at least it feels that way. We've always believed that pets aren't just passengers, they're family. That's why Subaru Loves Pets is more than a campaign for us. It's who we are. October 4th we partnered with North Shore Animal league for a mobile adoption event here at our showrrom. As customers browsed our shiny new Forester's and Crosstreks, many cute puppies and kittens watched. And for 4 lucky pets(and families) they were connected on this day. Some of these fur babies are of the overlooked variety but the love that a succesful adopted pet will receive from their new families is extremely rewarding for all that make it happen. We were happy to provide the venue, some food and beverage(or humans and our furry frends)but its the volunteers of North Shore Animal league that do all the heavy lifting and we are forever thankfull for thir tireless efforts. We look forward to future events with them and of course connecting these cute pets with their forever families.
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 Bayside, this is a harsh reality. Helping others strengthens communities, which is why Star 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 Star Subaru have helped nearly 900,000 children and adults in urgent need. On 01/19/2025, Star Subaru donated 504 coats to Life's WORC. 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.
At Star Subaru, we believe that true service goes far beyond the transaction — and today, our Sales Manager Steve showed exactly what that means. After finalizing a vehicle purchase, Steve noticed that his client, who uses a wheelchair, was being pushed back to their vehicle by his wife in the heat. Without hesitation, Steve stepped in to help, taking over the wheelchair to give her a moment of relief. But he didn’t stop there. When they reached the car, Steve carefully and respectfully lifted the client out of the wheelchair himself, making sure he was safe, comfortable, and properly seated. It was a small moment that made a big impact — on the customer, on his wife, and on all of us who witnessed it. Steve always goes above and beyond in every way he physically can, never because he has to — but because he genuinely cares. This is the Subaru Love Promise in action.
This year, Star Subaru partnered with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and St. Mary's Hospital for Children through the Subaru Loves to Care initiative. The partnership involved delivering blankets and messages of hope to cancer patients, specifically children with cancer. On June 25, 2024, Star Subaru and LLS Staff personally delivered these items to patients in treatment.
For Our Friends, Inc. is a non-profit, NO-KILL, all-volunteer dog rescue group. We are primarily foster based and are devoted to saving dogs from urgent situations in the NYC/Long Island area, including strays, owner surrenders and those at risk in municipal shelters. All of our dogs are given full medical exams, including all of the necessary inoculations. Any treatment for illness or injury is provided. Every dog is given flea and heartworm medication on a monthly basis. In addition, all dogs are spayed/neutered and microchipped prior to being made available for adoption. We appreciate Star Subaru's efforts in sharing our rescue mission with their customers! These two furry friends were lucky enough to find new homes with the help of our friends at Star Subaru!
Life’s WORC, a nonprofit organization supporting individuals with developmental disabilities and autism, is developing a Vocational Training Center in Garden City, NY. This training center will support the advancement of people with such disabilities through employment and social opportunities. A flagship facility, the WORC Force Center, will be equipped with multiple training centers, a retail environment, office work spaces, and many other things. While still under development, Star Subaru has volunteered their employees' time and their vehicles in order to help move furniture and equipment into the new facility. Thanks to Star Subaru, we are on track to hit our deadlines! Star Subaru has been a constant helping hand in this new project. We cannot thank Star Subaru enough for their generosity.
Our mission at P.S. 31Q is to provide our children with an exemplary educational program in a safe, nurturing and stimulating environment. We strive to equip each child with experiences that connect classroom learning to real life. Our dedicated staff and involved parents, with the help and support of the community, are committed to excellence and are instrumental in educating the whole child. The staff here at P.S. 31Q would like to extend our gratitude to Star Subaru for supplying us with necessities for yet another school year! Star Subaru was kind enough to donate 15 boxes of school supplies to our faculty and teachers just before the start of the new school year. We appreciate our local neighbors for not only choosing us, but also going the extra mile to personally deliver the school supplies to us! We aim to inspire our children with the same kindness and community shown to us by Star Subaru. Thanks to Star Subaru and the Subaru Loves Learning program!
Over the last 15 years, through the Subaru Share the Love Event®, Subaru of America, Inc. and its participating retailers have donated more than $256 million to charity, with customers choosing between four national charities and over 2,100 hometown charities. Michael Koufakis and Star Subaru have nominated Life’s WORC several times for the program, and the agency was finally selected for the 2022-23 campaign. We were honored to have Michael and Lynne Koufakis as well as representatives from Subaru of America join us at our Golf Outing on May 15 for the official check presentation. The campaign resulted in a donation of $34,605 to Life’s WORC made by Subaru of America and Star Subaru. We would like to thank them both for their generosity and for selecting our organization for this honor. The funds donated through the Subaru Share the Love® campaign will go directly to support care and programming for the residents in our 45 homes as well as participants in our day programs.
DEAR: STAR SUBARU, On behalf of Franklin Women's Assessment Shelter, we want to express our great appreciation and thank you for the warming socks that you donated for the women of our shelter. The women were overjoyed and continue to express their gratitude and appreciation. To thank you adequately is impossible. We hope you've also gained personal satisfaction in helping to brighten the day of our women in need. The compassion you've shown to the women we serve is an inspiration to us all. Sincerely, LaKisha Thomas Safety Director
On Monday, July 10th the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® Metro NY Chapter and Star Subaru had the pleasure of delivering 80 blankets and arts and crafts kits to the Queens Hosptial Center as part of the Subaru Loves to Care® Program. These blankets were received by the hosptial staff who were thrilled to arrange delivery for their patients. Many thanks to everyone at Star Subaru for not only an incredible day, but for their continued support of LLS’s mission to cure blood cancers and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
For Our Friends rescued Harriet, a 5 year old Chinese Crested, from a home with too many animals and an unwell owner. She was so scared when she was first rescued. She needed time to decompress and learn how to be a dog. She was fully vetted and well cared for, and she started to come out of her shell. And now, because of Subaru's promotion of our rescue efforts, Harriet has found her forever home and is a spoiled and adored princess.
On Monday, July 25th the LLS Metro NY Chapter and Star Subaru had the please of delivering 80 blankets and arts and crafts kits to the Queens Cancer Center at NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens as part of the Subaru Loves to Care Program. These blankets were received by Queens Cancer Center staff who were thrilled to arrange delivery for their patients. Many thanks to everyone at Star Subaru for not only and incredible day, but for their continued support of LLS's mission to cure blood cancers and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
Thanks to the generosity of Star Subaru and the 2021 Subaru Shares the Love Event, every ELIJA School mom received a beautifully hand-decorated gift from their child this Mother’s Day! The ELIJA School’s intensive, 12-month, personalized education and treatment program, with a one-to-one student to teacher ratio, makes it possible for children diagnosed with autism to develop skills enabling them to fully participate in the life of their families and community. This life changing instruction is only possible due to the generous support of others so on behalf of our students and their families – Thank You Star Subaru!
For Our Friends rescues many senior dogs from local shelters. When we learned of a dog the shelter named "Curly" and estimated he was 14 years old, we knew we had to help him. He was at Manhattan ACC, all matted and so very sad. We rushed to get him and bring him into our care. We named him Clark Gable, since we thought he was just the most handsome guy ever! Clark was clearly a super senior, with impaired hearing and vision. He was such a love from the minute we got him. The poor guy came down with the shelter cold aka kennel cough and was so sick! But he fought back and healed well with our care. He needed a good grooming, dental work, neuter, echocardiogram and heart meds, and we did it all for him. And yes, a wonderful woman who wanted a kind and loving senior to spoil and adore decided she wanted to make Clark hers! We are so happy that this super senior boy now has his happily ever after, and continues to do well and is so very loved. Thanks to Subaru's grant we are able to help dogs like Clark, who needed extra special care and medical attention.
December 8th, 2020 Dear Star Subaru, On behalf of the Franklin Womens Assessment Shelter, we want to express our great appreciation and thank you for the wonderful blankets that you donated for the women of our shelter. The women were overjoyed by the blankets and continue to express their gratitude of appreciation. To thank you adequately is impossible. We hope you also gained personal satisfaction in helping to brighten the day of the homeless women. The compassion you showed to the women we serve is an inspiration for us all. With Gratitude and Thanks, Christopher Rose Executive Director
For Our Friends is a 501c3 based in Queens and Long Island, and focuses most of its rescue efforts on saving seniors abandoned in shelters and those heading to shelters. Senior rescues require more medical care, so as you can imagine, the medical bills are high. We saved Ruby (senior pomeranian) and Peluche (senior shih tzu mix), a wonderful bonded pair, from our city's shelter. Their mom had passed away and they were now in metal cages and separate from each other at the shelter, waiting to be adopted. It's very rare to have a double adoption at a shelter, and so, when we saw their sweet faces we knew we had to help them. They both needed some medical care, especially Ruby, since she has a heart murmur. The donation by Subaru helps us help these kinds of dogs, who so deserve a second chance. Ruby and Peluche proved to be just as wonderful as we imagined they were. Ruby is the party girl, loves everyone. Peluche is more the quiet, reserved type. They were clearly bonded - when, at their first vet appointment, one would leave the room, the other whined and watched the door and became so excited when the other returned. They even slept curled into each other on their foster home. Wonderful news for this bonded senior pair - a retired and incredibly devoted couple saw them on our Facebook page and knew they had to adopt them. We are over the moon happy for all of them! Thank you Subaru for helping us help pets in need like Ruby and Peluche! -Jackie, President of For Our Friends
Thanks to the incredible generosity of Star Subaru and Subaru of America’s 2019 Share the Love Event, ELIJA Farm was ready on June 13 to offer 91 families the first of their 16 weeks of community supported agriculture shares. We were even able to continue proving young adults affected by autism the opportunity to stay engaged during the COVID-19 health crisis.The Farm is a place where people with autism and other disabilities are taught vocational, life and social skills, readying them to live and work independently within their communities. It is also a place for the community to share in the lives of these young adults, while literally sharing in the bounty of their work, through their seasonal agriculture share offerings. In mid-March, due to COVID-19 shut-downs, the Farm like many other organizations, was forced to “re-invent” our operations in the face of severely reduced funding amid serious health concerns. Thanks to the amazing financial support from the Subaru Share the Love Event, we did not skip a beat! Farmers were equipped with personal protective equipment to ensure that our spring/summer season was not lost. Our other programming continued remotely, with meditation, cooking, baking, and now producing labels for the community shares weekly distribution.The Farm logo, the ELIJA tree, is a biblical representation of a place of respite and renewal, and thanks to the generosity of Star Subaru and Subaru of America, we continue to be just that – a place of respite and renewal to young adults with special needs and their communities!
On Friday, August 2nd, the New York City Chapter and the Star Subaru team had the pleasure of delivering 80 blankets and 50 arts & craft kits to NYU Langone – Perlmutter Cancer Center as part of the Subaru Loves To Care program. These comforting gifts were accompanied by personalized messages of hope written by the customers and staff of Star Subaru team.During the visit, we walked around the infusion center and gave out blankets to every patient treated in the infusion center at the time. We also visited faculty practices on the third floor where we gave some of the blankets out to patients who were scheduled for follow up MD appointments. It was so wonderful to see appreciation and surprise in patients’ and staff’s eyes. This incredible act of generosity was warmly received by the NYU Langone – Perlmutter Cancer Center staff who were thrilled to distribute these comforting gifts to their patients. One of our hospital contacts shared her appreciation with us after the visit. She mentioned how much of a pleasure it was to meet the LLS team along with the Subaru team. She shared that one of the patients mentioned that she almost didn’t want to open her package because it looked so nice. Another patient became tearful as they talked about Subaru and LLS’s thoughtfulness. That day marked this patients’ last chemotherapy treatment – she said the gift came at the right time because it gave her strength to take on another challenge, which is surgery. Some additional patients appreciated these blankets even more knowing the infusion center was “well air-conditioned”.The hospital selected a number of patients who, they know, have children and/or grandchildren. Those patients received arts and crafts kits to give to their loved ones. Our hospital contact shared that a few days later one of them mentioned that their grandkids were excited to receive their own little gifts. They spent a Saturday afternoon with grandma and grandpa drawing pictures and coloring. The hospital contact sent a note after the visit stating: “words cannot express how appreciative we are of your and Subaru’s compassion and kindness. Thank you for choosing us and thank you for helping us make our patients feel better.”This was such an incredible experience and we are so proud to partner with Subaru to spread hope, love and warmth to those fighting cancer, across the country and right here in the New York City community.
Thanks to the generosity of Star Subaru in Bayside and the New York City Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), the holidays came in July for patients and team members at the Perlmutter Cancer Center—Lake Success infusion center, along with patients of the 15 NYU Langone Faculty Group Practice (FGP) oncologists co-located within the facility and a NYU Langone pediatric practice that is housed at the site. As part of the national Subaru Loves to Care program that launched in 2016, the health-focused initiative of the Subaru’s philanthropic platform, LLS and Subaru retailers across the country have joined forces to deliver blankets, messages of hope and arts and crafts kits to thousands of patients in hundreds of U.S. hospitals. On July 18, NYU Langone patients were the benefactors of this impactful program when representatives from Star Subaru and LLS delivered 80 blankets – the approximate number of patients the Lake Success center sees each day – to patients onsite for treatment at the infusion center and the adjacent NYU Langone medical practices. In addition to the blankets, each patient also received carrying bags for their goodies and printed well wishes from local Subaru customers and employees. Additionally, Star Subaru donated a number of craft projects and toys for delivery to children as the adjacent NYU Langone pediatric practice. “The patients were so surprised and receptive to receiving the blankets and notes. They all seemed genuinely touched by the gesture and really appeared to love the intimacy of the hand delivery. What I noticed most were all of the smiles that we saw as we wheeled the cart around and delivered the surprises,” said Susan Riveiro, RN, BSN, OCN, assistant director of Oncology Regional Programs, Long Island. “It was especially gratifying to be part of this initiative because we were recognizing our patients, which is why we’re here and why we do what we do. After everything was handed out, you could feel how the morale of the whole unit had lifted from patients to staff and even the volunteers. We were truly honored to have our site chosen and to have the opportunity to be involved in such a special event.” With an emphasis on comforting and warming those who need it most, the Star Subaru and LLS team members who spearheaded the project set out to identify a site where they could personally show their support to neighbors and fellow community members who are battling cancer. With Bayside in Queens located just a few miles from Lake Success in Long Island, they quickly landed on Perlmutter Cancer Center—Lake Success as the perfect fit. – Courtesy of NYU Langone Health’s Inside Health News
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