The 2025 Subaru Love Promise Community Commitment Award
We are honored to be nationally recognized by Subaru of America, Inc. for our dedication to our community, and the Subaru Love Promise.
The 2025 Subaru Love Promise Community Commitment Award recognizes elite Subaru retailer who provide an exceptional customer experience at every interaction with Subaru. These retailers have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to supporting passions and causes in their local communities in important areas such as environment, community, health, education, and pets.
Here at Subaru, we love our community as much as we love our vehicles and are committed to making a positive impact on the lives of all of our customers and neighbors.
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 Heritage Subaru Catonsville 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.
BARCS: Baltimore Animal Rescue
Woodbridge Elementary School
Love Promise Stories from Heritage Subaru Catonsville
Subaru and Heritage Subaru Catonsville 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
Heritage Subaru Catonsville has partnered with their local hospital - Shelby P
Heritage Subaru Catonsville has partnered with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and University of Maryland Children’s Hospital through the Subaru Loves to Care initiative. The partnership has involved delivering blankets and messages of hope to the patients at University of Maryland Children’s Hospital. On 6/17/2025, employees from Heritage Subaru Catonsville personally delivered these items to patients in treatment and/or hospital staff.
Heritage Subaru Catonsville Teams Up to Support Local Community - Nate R
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 Baltimore, this is a harsh reality. Helping others strengthens communities, which is why Heritage Subaru Catonsville 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 Heritage Subaru Catonsville have helped nearly 900,000 children and adults in urgent need. On 01/27/2025, Heritage Subaru Catonsville donated 120 coats to ShareBaby, inc.. 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.
SUBARU DONATION SHARES THE LOVE BY FUNDING FREE RIDES TO CANCER TREATMENT - Vivienne S
Sharing the Love can mean helping cancer patients get to their lifesaving treatment. For many cancer patients, having access to transportation is one of the greatest barriers to completing cancer treatment. That’s why Heritage Subaru Catonsville’s longstanding commitment to raise funds to help cancer patients get free rides to treatment through the American Cancer Society’s Road to Recovery program is outstanding. Through the Subaru Share the Love Promise, Heritage Subaru Catonsville recently raised $28,163 to help fund the Road to Recovery program. Nationwide in 2024, ACS Road to Recovery provided more than 71,534 free rides to treatment for patients who did not have a ride or were unable to drive themselves. In the Greater Baltimore/DC area, cancer patients received 1,978 free rides to and from treatment totaling 32,879 road miles. The American Cancer Society couldn’t do this without the generous support of donors such as Heritage Subaru Catonsville and the Share the Love program. To learn more about Road to Recovery or inquire about a ride to treatment, see www.cancer.org/roadtorecovery. To volunteer to give a cancer patient a ride to treatment, see www.cancer.org/drive.
Subaru Loves to Help! - Cayla B
At ShareBaby, we believe in the power of partnership to bring tangible, lasting change to families in need. One particularly special moment this past winter came thanks to our friends at Subaru Heritage Catonsville, who stepped in with a donation that did more than just meet a need - it delivered dignity, warmth, and care during a season when it was needed most. As temperatures began to drop, our partners were expressing growing concern: many of the families they serve didn't have access to proper winter clothing. That's when Subaru Heritage Catonsville showed up, true to their “Share the Love” spirit, with a generous donation of brand-new winter coats for children and caregivers alike. These coats weren’t just fabric and insulation - they were hope, dignity, and a reminder that community support is alive and well. We’re so grateful to Subaru Heritage Catonsville for helping us ensure that no child goes cold, and for standing with ShareBaby and our partners in service of Baltimore’s families.
Heritage Subaru Supports Toys for Tots - Meghan M
Heritage Subaru proudly hosted a Toys for Tots drive at their Owings Mills and Catonsville locations to support children in the local community. Last week they dropped off their donation boxes and met with several Marines on site, allowing the store teams to learn more about the Toys for Tots mission!
Subaru Retailers Team Up to Support Hurricane Relief Efforts - Jess M
At Heritage Subaru Catonsville, we’re always ready to step up and support our communities, especially in times of crisis. This commitment is at the heart of the Subaru Love Promise®. When Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated the Eastern region, Subaru retailers like us immediately sprang into action. Alongside other Subaru retailers, Subaru of America, and local organizations, we assessed the most urgent needs in the affected areas. It quickly became clear that local food banks were struggling to keep up with the surge in demand as they worked to support people hit hardest by the storms. In response, we teamed up with 67 Subaru retailers across the region to launch a $400,000 match campaign to aid the hurricane relief efforts of Feeding America®. Heritage Subaru Catonsville proudly contributed $5000 to this initiative. While the immediate impact of the storms fades from the headlines, many of our neighbors continue to face long-term challenges like food insecurity, water shortages, power outages, and limited access to essential services. Thanks to the collective generosity of Subaru retailers and the communities we serve, an additional $18,427 was raised. This brings the total impact to $418,427, or over 4,100,000 meals for those in need. "As one of the nation's largest disaster relief organizations, the Feeding America network of food banks and partner agencies is deeply rooted in communities across the country. Together, our partnership with trusted Subaru dealers has helped expedite emergency food assistance and supplies to people who need it most. We are immensely grateful," said Feeding America Chief Development Officer Casey Marsh.
Subaru Catonsville Loves to LEARN with Woodbridge :) - Meghan M
Heritage Subaru Catonsville sponsored six teachers through the AdoptAClassroom.org program for the 3rd year in a row. The teachers receiving these funds are brand new teachers hired this year and came to the school with very little in the way of school supplies and room decorations. Heritage Subaru Catonsville also came to visit Woodbridge Elementary School to deliver school supply kits for each classroom, where students greeted the store team!. Upon arrival, our students greeted them at the door to thank them for their generosity and support! The wonderful students, then, gave Heritage Subaru a tour of the school where they brought them around to each of the adopted teachers to visit!
Heritage Subaru Catonsville Supports BARCS Animal Shelter - Michelle P
On Saturday, September 28, BARCS Animal Shelter and Heritage Subaru Catonsville, with support from another local Subaru dealership and the Subaru national office, hosted "The Road Home," an adoption event and Subaru rally at REI in Columbia, Maryland. The event had great weather and turnout, with lots of prospective adopters and Subaru enthusiasts. We're thrilled to share that, thanks in part to Heritage Subaru's support, five animals were adopted that day! Thank you!
Heritage Subaru Catonsville Loves to Care - Katie J
On Tuesday, June 25th, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society® (LLS) Mid-Atlantic region and Heritage Subaru Catonsville had the pleasure of delivering blankets to University of Maryland Children’s Hospital as part of the Subaru Loves to Care® initiative. These comforting gifts were accompanied by personalized messages of hope written by customers and staff at Heritage Subaru Catonsville. This incredible act of generosity was warmly received by the folks at University of Maryland Children’s Hospital. Thank you to everyone at Heritage Subaru Catonsville and University of Maryland Children’s Hospital for supporting LLS’ mission!
Generous Donation Provides Free Rides to Treatment for Cancer Patients with American Cancer Society - Vivienne S
The American Cancer Society is very grateful to Heritage Subaru Catonsville for their longstanding commitment and amazing recent contribution of $43,608 to help cancer patients get free rides to cancer treatment through the American Cancer Society’s free Road to Recovery program. Lack of accessible transportation is one of the greatest barriers to completing cancer care. Many patients are too sick to drive themselves or don’t have a car and don’t have enough family and friends to support them with the many rides needed to treatment. Though the Subaru Share the Love Promise, the MileOne Autogroup Subaru family raised a total of $123,288, which included the Herb Gordon Subaru fundraising, to provide free lifesaving transportation to treatment for cancer patients this year. The American Cancer Society (ACS) Road to Recovery is a national program that funded more than 47,000 free rides to treatment across the U.S. in 2024. ACS couldn’t do this without the generous support of donors such as Heritage Subaru Catonsville. To learn more about the ACS Road to Recovery program, see www.cancer.org/roadtorecovery. Pictured (l to r): Katrina Pemberton – Sr. Director, Marketing Operations at MileOne Autogroup, Steve Knolle – General Manager at Heritage Subaru Catonsville, Scott Fader – Chief Operating Officer at MileOne Autogroup, Beth Garbolino – Associate Director, Development at the American Cancer Society, Amanda Kodeck – Chief Giving Officer at MileOne Autogroup
