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 Gateway Subaru dedicated locally to the Love Promise?
Our Love Promise is our promise of dedication, not just to our customers but also to our community. We work hand in hand with various 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 because this is what Love means to us.
Worcester County Humane, Humane Society of Wicomico County
Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Barrels By The Bay
Delmar Elementary, Parkside High School CTE Center, Wicomico High School AP Science
Believe In Tomorrow, Christian Shelter
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Love Promise Stories from Gateway Subaru
Subaru and Gateway 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
Gateway Subaru donates to TidalHealth - Shelby P
Gateway Subaru has partnered with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and TidalHealth through the Subaru Loves to Care initiative. The partnership has involved delivering blankets and messages of hope to the patients at TidalHealth. On 7/11/2025, employees from Gateway Subaru personally delivered these items to patients in treatment and/or hospital staff.
Gateway Subaru Supports Dagsboro Boys & Girls Club - Eli T
Imagine having to go 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 Delmar, this can be a harsh reality. Helping others is the key to a strong community which is why Gateway Subaru believes in helping to support individuals and families in urgent need. This season, for our Subaru Loves to Help® initiative, we are partnering with Operation Warm®, a national nonprofit focused on connecting children with the resources they need to thrive. Through this partnership and other historical Subaru Loves to Help efforts, Subaru and retailers like us will have helped nearly 900,000 children and adults in urgent need so far. On 1/22/25, Gateway Subaru partnered with Dagsboro Boys & Girls Club and donated 300 coats to children in urgent need. 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 Retailers Team Up to Support Hurricane Relief Efforts - Jess M
At Gateway Subaru, 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®. Gateway Subaru proudly contributed $10000 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.
Bags2Mats - Linda M
My name is Linda Mason I am one of the volunteers with Bags2Mats organization. Our organization is compromised of several volunteers that crochet together Plastic "Plarn" to create sleeping mats for our local homeless community. Recently we partnered up with Gateway Subaru for a plastic bag collection drive. We were able to collect enough bags to make one sleeping mat. These mats take thousands of bags to create. We really appreciate Gateways role in helping with these efforts. We are very excited to work with Gateway Subaru in 2025 during the Subaru loves Earth event. This company really cares about its community near and far. Thank you again for allowing us to set up a table for plastic bag donation and we will see you in April!!
Believe in Tommorow - Jamie S
I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to take a moment to express my heartfelt thanks for your generous support of the Believe in Tomorrow initiative. Your willingness to assist us in making this vision a reality has made an incredible difference. Whether through your time, resources, or expertise, your involvement has helped us reach new heights and bring hope to those who need it most. It is because of thoughtful individuals like you that we can continue our mission and make a meaningful impact. On behalf of the entire team and the people we serve, thank you once again for your dedication and belief in the cause. We are so grateful to have you as a partner in this important work. Together, we can continue to inspire hope and create a brighter future for those who need it most.
Halloween Happening - Jamie M
A huge thank you to our biggest sponsor here at the Salisbury Zoo during the month of October. Gateway Subaru continues to partner with us for this spooktacular event each year. This event helps fund the Salisbury Zoo and provide a safe way for parents to take children out on our candy trail. What better way than to enjoy looking at animals while you are doing some trick or treating? We hope that every year we continue this partnership as it has been highly successful this year and previous years!! Look forward to working with Gateway Subaru again next year!
Subaru Loves Pets - Macey
The Humane Society of Wicomico County would like to thank Gateway Subaru for continuing to partner with us each year in efforts to get shelter dogs adopted. On October 5th we had our annual pet adoption event at Gateway Subaru's dealership with a great turn-out! Thank you Gateway Subaru for having us and the donations that you provide each year(the box of Chewbaru dog toys) and the donation box that you keep in the showroom for the month of October it does not go unnoticed by us here at the Humane Society of Wicomico County MD. Regularly we are over capacity with dogs and cats so any efforts to help combat that are extremely appreciated!! Thank you Gateway Subaru!!
Gateway Subaru Loves to Care - Veronica R
On Tuesday, July 9th, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society® (LLS) Mid-Atlantic region and Gateway Subaru had the pleasure of delivering blankets to TidalHealth Peninsula Regional 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 Gateway Subaru. This incredible act of generosity was warmly received by the folks at TidalHealth Peninsula Regional. Thank you to everyone at Gateway Subaru and TidalHealth Peninsula Regional for supporting LLS’ mission!
Pickleball Fun - Amanda K
On Saturday July 13th, 2024, Believe In Tomorrow Children’s Foundation hosted their Inaugural Pickleball Tournament at Ocean Pines Raquet Center. Many wonderful players, volunteers and sponsors made it out to the event, despite the unpleasant weather forecast. Dawn and Matt from Gateway Subaru were onsite as the Ace Sponsor, setup with awesome giveaways and a brand-new car on display! Don and Pat also stopped by to support the festivities. This Inaugural Pickleball Tournament will be supporting Believe In Tomorrow’s latest expansion of respite housing in Ocean City, MD on 65th Street. The transformation of the 65th St. building, Children’s House by the Sea II, will add 2 townhouses and 2 newly built efficiencies along with a backyard garden oasis. This respite facility will prioritize short life expectancy and military families, and the efficiencies will allow extended family as well as live in nursing staff to accompany the critically ill children. We Believe in keeping families together during a child’s medical crisis, and that the gentle cadence of normal family life has a powerful influence on the healing process. The Believe In Tomorrow programs and housing serve as a support system for when children and their families need it most. Since 1982, Believe In Tomorrow has provided over 900,000 individual overnight accommodations. The addition of the new property will increase the year-round beach respite housing to 8 units and 11 total respite units available in Maryland, Delaware, and North Carolina. To learn more about Believe In Tomorrow, please visit www.BelieveInTomorrow.org or call 410-723-2842.
Great Partnership - Rick S
I wanted to take a moment and say how thankful we are for the continued partnership we've had with Gateway Subaru over the years. Every year they continue to collaborate with us on many different events, charities, donations, etc. Not only do we get the pleasure of filming all of their commercials but we also continue to partner up on events specifically our annual Shore Living Event we have every year in October at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center. Our hope here at WBOC channel 16 we will have a continued partnership with Gateway Subaru for years and years to come!!!
