The 2023 Subaru Love Promise Community Commitment Award
We've been nationally recognized for our dedication to our community and the Subaru Love Promise.
We're honored to receive the 2023 Subaru Love Promise Community Commitment Award. This award nationally recognizes Subaru retailers who are making the world a better place while demonstrating an outstanding commitment to supporting passions and causes in local communities. These efforts are focused in important areas such as the environment, community, health, education, and pets.
What is the Subaru Love Promise?
Subaru and our retailers believe in making the world a better place and the Subaru Love Promise is our vision of respecting all people. This is our commitment to show love and respect to our customers and to work to make a positive impact in the world.
How is Colonial Subaru dedicated locally to the Love Promise?
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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Love Promise Stories from Colonial Subaru
Subaru and Colonial 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
Colonial Subaru Love Promise Moment - Erin S
We are recognizing our Employee Lorraine Dugan (F&I Manager with Colonial since 2002) for her continued support, volunteering on her personal time off weekly to pick up approximately 500 pounds of non-perishable food items from the Bucks County Opportunity Council food distribution center in Bristol, PA and delivering it to the Warminster Food Bank, which serves over 650 community members monthly who are experiencing food insecurity. Lorraine's involvement with the Warminster Food Bank began last year when she spearheaded Colonial Subaru's Love Promise Community event "Pack the Outback" food drive. She was inspired by this organization to volunteer on a regular basis when she saw the statistics, heard the personal stories, and saw firsthand how great the need is in the community. The Warminster Food Bank is greatly appreciative of her help getting the much-needed food items to their pantry, as they have experienced an unprecedented demand in the last few years. She is in her 5th month of doing the weekly food run and has no plans of stopping anytime soon. Lorraine is an example of embodying the Subaru Love Promise® . We are grateful for her dedication, care, and commitment, and for making a difference in the community.
Colonial Subaru Loves to Help® - Erin S
On Thursday, March 14th, 2023, Mr. Eric Stamps, President of Colonial Subaru, had two employees volunteer to head over to the Family Service Association of Bucks County. Once there, they met with Traci Willis and donated a total of 500 socks for both adults and children. Socks are usually overlooked when donating clothing. However, one may not realize how many miles the homeless may walk each day and the amount of time they spend on their feet. Warm and dry socks are essential for proper foot health. We have been donating to this wonderful organization for a few years now and look forward to our next meeting with all of the amazing people we have met and befriended along the way!
Meals on Wheels - Erin S
This December, Colonial Subaru and Mr. Eric Stamps teamed up with KleinLife Community Center to deliver meals to our local elderly neighbors. Employees Ginny Deleon, Alex Mclaughlin and Christine Hempsey spent the morning dropping off meals and delivering smiles. When all was said and done the three girls were just ecstatic at how much they enjoyed meeting these fine folks. What should have been a quick drop off to each person turned into a fun fest. Each person was just so sweet, and the girls sat and talked to them listening to stories the elderly wanted to share from holidays past and present, their children and the good ole’ days. It was like hanging out with old friends from all the laughs shared, the silly selfies and the long goodbyes. It was like they had all known each other for years. Colonial will continue to deliver meals whenever KleinLife calls to ask . Christine, Ginny and Alex already volunteered for the next time they reach out for any help. Whether it be delivering meals on wheels or a day at the center. They were so happy to help and definitely made some new friends along that day.
COLONIAL SUBARU LOVES PETS - CHRISTINE H
On Sunday October 16, 2022, President of Colonial Subaru, Mr. Eric Stamps sent two of his pup loving people to deliver New Pet Parents Kits and Chew-Buru toys to the WET NOSE ADOPTION CENTER, located in Northeast Philadelphia. Christine Hempsey and Eugenia Deleon spent the morning with the Wet Nose Family and six puppies that were just dropped off in the wee hours of the morning from South Carolina. Wet Nose Rescue was founded in 2008 in Southampton, PA. The adoption center is located in NE Philadelphia. Although they are an adoption center, no kennels are in the center. Wet Nose is a 100% foster based rescue center. This means all animals are placed with Foster families until they are adopted and find their FUREVER home. This allows the pets to the attention they need and deserve as well the needed socializing skills that cannot be learned in a kennel. They also offer a variety of classes such as obedience training. Fun events like TRICKS & TREATS DOGGO COSTUME PARTY. They host an array of different adoptions events like Seniors for Seniors, which matches Senior dogs up with Senior citizens looking to adopt a pet, Lisa and Kim along with other volunteers were just amazing to watch interact with the dogs. The love and devotion showed to the sweet little creatures was just a beautiful thing.. So much so that Christine's daughter will be reaching out to volunteer her time. On November 11,2022 we plan to return with more donations from Colonial Subaru's employees. As they are always in need of supplies. *******SECOND HAND ANIMALS, MAKE FIRST CLASS PETS.
Coats for Kids - Erin S
On October 18th, 2022, Ginny, Chrissy, and Erin volunteered their time to take a drive down to the Auto Dealers Association building in Norristown to pick up our coats for kids. This year, Colonial Subaru was able to donate 144 coats to kids in need. We partnered with the local YWCA of Bucks county to donate our coats so they can distribute them to our local kids this upcoming winter time. Just another way Colonial Subaru volunteers in our community.
Subaru Loves Learning with MaST Charter School - Erin S
This year, we adopted MaST Community Charter School in Philadelphia as our Subaru Loves Learning school. We were able to adopt six classrooms and donate a multitude of school supplies to the 4th grade students. The best part is the boxes themselves get converted into a small garden that the students get to grow milkweed in to attract monarch butterflies. The students were absolutely ecstatic and grateful to receive the school supplies and were also thrilled about growing their own milkweed and hopefully getting to see some monarch butterflies!
Angel on a Leash - Erin S
For the second year in a row Colonial Subaru's president, Eric Stamps, made a generous donation to an organization that is near and dear to his heart, Angel on a Leash! Angel on a Leash is a nonprofit organization that provides volunteer therapy dog handler teams (Champions) to visit with anyone that would benefit from the human-canine bond in enhancing human health and quality of life. All handler-dog teams (Champions) are tested, certified, and registered by AOAL. Additionally, during scheduled visits, our Champion teams are insured by AOAL.
Furniture Donation - Erin S
Colonial Subaru's president, Eric Stamps, bought new furniture for our service department. The old furniture Eric donated to our technician, Greg, and his local church to be used by the church and the local community.
Colonial Subaru and LLS delivery "warmth" and hope to patients fighting cancer. - Monique R
Colonial Subaru has partnered with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) to donate “Subaru Loves to Care” blankets to spread hope and warmth to patients fighting cancer. Ginny DeLeon and Christine Henpsey from Colonial Subaru in Feasterville, Pa., and Annette Weidenfeld from the Eastern PA-DE Region of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society joined together again this year to deliver blankets, art & crafts supplies, and message of hope cards to patients to Redeemer Health in partnership with MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper. These message of hope cards from the dealership that shared personalized messages of hope to patients in their local community, which were delivered alongside the blankets to provide comfort and warmth as they continued their fight against cancer. Hospital staff that works directly with the patients were extremely grateful and excited to share these items with their patients. Thank you to everyone who made this delivery special. Front row, left to right: Lynn Shorday-Appelbaum, SVP Transformative Philanthropy at Redeemer Health; Sue Kowalski, Office Manager at Redeemer Health in partnership with MD Anderson at Cooper; Kelly Pressler, Director at Redeemer Health in partnership with MD Anderson at Cooper; Ginny DeLeon, Finance Assistant at Colonial Subaru. Back row, left to right: Christine Henpsey, Title Clerk at Colonial Subaru; Annette Weidenfeld, Campaign Development Director at Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in Philadelphia; Mary Bongarzone, Radiation RN at Redeemer Health in partnership with MD Anderson at Cooper.
COLONIAL SUBARU AND THE LUEKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY TEAMS UP TO DELIVERY THE LOVE - Christine H
COLONIAL SUBARU AND THE LUEKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY SHARE THE WARMTH! ON JULY 5,2022 COLONIAL SUBARU TEAMED UP WITH THE LUEKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY AND TRAVELED TO HOLY REMDEEMER’S MD ANDERSON COOPER MEDICAL CENTER TO DELIVER BLANKETS AND ALSO CRAFT KITS ALONG WITH CARDS OF WELL WISHES FROM OUR EMPLOYESS AND CUSTOMERS. IT WAS A VERY EMOTIONAL DAY AS ONE OF OUR EMPLOYEES DELIVERING THE LOVE, LOST HER OWN MOTHER TO LUNG AND LYMPHOMA CANCER AT THE AGE OF JUST 58. WE MET SOME WONDERFUL PEOPLE THAT DAY AND WHAT A DELIGHT IT WAS GETTING TO KNOW THEM. BLANKETS ARE ONE OF THE MOST ASKED FOR AMONG PATIENTS AS THEY BRING A SENSE OF COMFORT TO THEM, SO WE WERE MORE THAN HAPPY TO OBLIGE. ABSOLUTELY NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO FACE THIS TERRIBLE DISEASE ALONE, OUR HOPES ARE WHEN THE PATIENTS ARE FEELING ALONE OR HAVING A BAD DAY THEY CAN REACH FOR A BLANKET AND WRAP IT AROUND THEMSELVES LIKE A WARM HUG AND REMEMBER THAT WE HERE AT COLONIAL ARE WITH THEM IN SPIRIT 100% THROUGH THEIR BATTLE. CANCER CAN DO A LOT OF THINGS. HOWEVER, WE LEARNED ON THIS DAY IS THAT IT WILL NOT AND CANNOT DESTROY THE SPIRIT OF THE BRAVE WARRIORS.
