The 2025 Subaru Love Promise Customer and Community Commitment Award
We are honored to be nationally recognized by Subaru of America, Inc. for our dedication to our customers, our community, and the Subaru Love Promise.
The 2025 Subaru Love Promise Customer and 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?
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. \n\n 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. \n\n What is the Subaru Love Promise Community Commitment? \n\n At 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:
How is Anderson 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. We are always looking for ways to Spread Love... Just Because!
Phoenix Rising Rescue, Escambia County Animal Welfare, Wolfgang LLC
Sherwood Elementary School
Feeding The Gulf Coast, Gulf Breeze Optimist Club, Loaves and Fishes Soup Kitchen, Pensacola Sports Association, Santa Rosa Island Triathlon
Pensacola Breast Cancer Association, Ascension Sacred Heart
Love Promise Stories from Anderson Subaru
Subaru and Anderson 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
The 5th Annual Angel Tree - Kayla J
For the fifth year in a row we have been able to show up for kids in our community. Every Christmas season, we proudly support the Angel Tree and sponsor children through Gulf Coast Kids House, an organization that does incredible work for children who need hope, safety, and support during some of the hardest moments of their lives. What started as a simple idea years ago has become a tradition we hold close to our hearts. Each year, our team comes together to pick angels, shop for gifts, and make sure every child on our list knows they are seen, valued, and cared for. It's not just about presents — it's about reminding these kids that their community hasn't forgotten them. We open this opportunity for our customers to participate as well and we have always had great contribution! This year, we were especially proud to deliver all of the gifts in early December, making sure everything arrived in time to bring a little extra joy and peace to the holiday season. Seeing those gifts loaded up and ready to go was a powerful reminder of why we do this. Five years. Five Christmases. Hundreds of moments of kindness. We promise to keep showing up and giving back. And most of all, we promise to keep doing our part to make the holidays brighter for the children who need it most. From all of us at Anderson Subaru — thank you to our team, our community, and Gulf Coast Kids House for letting us be a small part of something so meaningful.
27 Pets Find Their Furever Home - Kayla J
Anderson Subaru had the absolute pleasure of partnering with the Escambia County animal welfare again for Subaru Loves Pets 2025. ECAW works tirelessly to create a safe, healthy, and caring environment for both citizens and animals. We’ve partnered with the shelter for several events/adoptions thus far, and each time we are in SHOCK of how many animals out there are in need of a loving home, proper care, and overall resources. The shelter strives to help ease the influx of owner surrenders in our area in hopes they can keep animals with their beloved owners. Often times it’s because the cost of basic care is unaffordable for pet owners nowadays and so they have a food pantry located in their office that citizens can access pet food as needed. Having a food pantry is one of many things that the Escambia County Animal Welfare does in hopes to keep the shelter from not becoming overly crowded. With each adoption, the animal comes with being spay/neutered. This helps long term! Along with up to date vaccinations and microchip to ensure your fur babies don’t stray away! By the end of this last adoption event we hosted in October, we had a total of 27 ADOPTIONS! 14 cats and 13 dogs! It was a huge accomplishment and so wholesome to see all of these animals go home!Unfortunately, intakes of animals seem like they are always on the rise so any way we can assist and raise awareness, we strive to!
Anderson Subaru Sponsors the Tennis Charity Challenge! - Kayla J
Anderson Subaru has the pleasure of sponsoring several annual events with Pensacola Sports. Pensacola Sports is a private not-for-profit agency primarily funded from revenues generated from partnerships and events. Their focus is on education, inspiration and participation in various team, individual, amateur and professional sports activities. Every single event that Pensacola Sports hosts, there is a benefactor in mind! One of the most recent events that Anderson Subaru has been able to be a part of for the last several years, is their Bud Light tennis charity tournament. This is a weekend long tournament that benefits the Arc Gateway of Pensacola. Arc Gateway is an organization that provides the best possible life experiences for more than 1,200 children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They have a silent auction that goes on all weekend, and the proceeds go to the organization. It’s always a great turnout and huge success. We love being a part of that success!
Mammograms Provided for Needy Citizens - Cristi M
Anderson Subaru in Pensacola has been a generous donor to Pensacola Breast Cancer Association via the Share the Love campaign since 2015. Our organization raises funds to provide mammogram services to uninsured and indigent citizens in our community. The funds donated to Pensacola Breast Cancer Association from the Share the Love campaign has allowed us to provide over 650 mammograms for needy people in our community who otherwise may have gone undiagnosed. All funds raised by Pensacola Breast Cancer Association stays local and generous community donors like Anderson Subaru bring invaluable help to our local families!
Anderson Subaru Teams Up to Support Local Community - Karen D
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 Pensacola, this is a harsh reality. Helping others strengthens communities, which is why Anderson 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 Anderson Subaru have helped nearly 900,000 children and adults in urgent need. On 02/08/2025, Anderson Subaru donated 204 coats to United Way of West Florida. 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.
Arbor Day - Jordan C
I recently had some Parts for to pickup for my Subaru and it happened to be around arbor day. Besides the Excellent service I am used to at this dealership, they had tree you could sign up to receive a tree for arbor day! Not only could you get a tree for free you had options! Things like this is what makes me love the Subaru name. Not to mention this is one of the best dealerships I've dealt with! I picked a Bald cypress witch is my favorite tree, you could have also picked a Red Maple and a White Oak. Every time I come to this dealership I always leave with a smile! Thanks again, Anderson Subaru!
Teacher Appreciation Breakfast for Sherwood Hosted by Anderson Subaru - Kayla J
To show our appreciation; we treated our partner school teachers and staff at Sherwood Elementary to a much deserved breakfast! It was complete with fresh bagels, danishes and fresh fruit from Panera bread. Fresh and hot donuts from our local Maynards. And they were able to pick from a variety of 'teacher fuel' coffee and other beverages. We love to be able to show our appreciation and thank every single teacher and staff member for their commitment, patience and their passion to the children in our community! They are making a true difference and contributing to our future of society! Thank you to all the teachers world wide!
4th Annual Paw-Di Gras - Kayla J
This year made Anderson Subaru's 4th annual Pawdi Gras sponsorship in which benefits our friends at the Escambia County Animal Shelter! A local LLC, Wolfgang, puts on this amazing dog event downtown at the beginning of each year and it kicks off Mardi Gras season in our community. This dog friendly event really speaks to our community because we have so many pet families and the overall goal is to raise funds and awareness to the benefactor, Escambia County Animal Shelter. During this event there are vendors, food trucks, adoptable dogs being walked around, costume contests and a pet parade! Anderson Subaru is always proud and looks forward to support this event! We design a pet photo area which is designed to compliment the theme of the event, which changes every year! It's always a huge hit!
Anderson Subaru Fill a Forester - Kayla J
Anderson Subaru is proud partners with the Escambia County Animal Shelter. They are considered a municipal shelter. They stay busy with the unfortunate reality of increased amounts of stray dogs and cats, owner surrenders and overall intakes. We have been honored to host a few adoption events with them and have had much success! This past October we also had the opportunity to do more. We participated in a movement where we "filled a Subaru Forester". The whole idea was to collect donations of food, treats, essentials for dogs and cats for our local municipal shelter. Escambia County Animal Shelter has a food has a pet pantry organized to aid those in need. There are often times that older citizens who are already low on income have to choose whether to feed themselves or their pets and most of them choose to feed their pets, so they go without. Jo Jo’s Paws Pet Pantry, who is in partnership with the Escambia County Department of Animal Welfare, is there to help ensure that doesn’t happen. They offer free cat and dog food and some other items like collars, leashes, blankets, etc. that have been donated. We utilized this opportunity during the month of October to advertised this ‘Fill a Forester’ movement and put together an irresistible ‘fall themed’ gift basket that valued over $500! The basket included several fall items for the home, a gift card to a pet friendly locally owned restaurant called George’s Bistro, a gift card to a local bookstore, a few pet memorabilia items, heated blanket, custom charcuterie board for hosting, a door mat, and a $200 certificate to use towards an Anderson Subaru Parts/Service visit! We were amazed at the incredible turnout of donations! We have the most loyal customers and community around us to make this donation drive possible!
Operation Warm - Anderson Subaru - Julia H
On February 8, 2025, United Way of West Florida (UWWF) partnered with Anderson Subaru to distribute free children's coats in Century, FL through Operation Warm. The partnership with Anderson Subaru expands UWWF's capacity and our work Century, an underserved area of Escambia County. The event has already grown from its inaugural year last year, increasing the number of coats available by over 50. This increase allowed us to distribute at the Pensacola State College Century Campus and at a nearby apartment complex to meet individuals without transportation. Operation Warm distributed 64 coats at the event- the remaining coats will go to local schools and organizations that provide direct services to children and families. Working on Operation Warm with Anderson Subaru for this event was nothing short of amazing. Efforts to establish the event starts in the fall with constant communication throughout the process to plan the event and ensure both organizations are prepared. Anderson Subaru delivered the jackets to the event, provided food for the folks getting jackets and volunteers, and brought their team to volunteer! Their team members are always enthusiastic about the work they're doing and passionate about making sure anyone eligible to receive a coat gets one. The Anderson Subaru team makes the work even more enjoyable and rewarding for UWWF staff and volunteers. Kayla Jennings, Marketing and Events Coordinator, has been a pleasure to work with and has done a wonderful job over the last two years through her communication and organization of the event. For the past two years, the event has been held in Century, a small community located in the north end of Escambia County. In 2022, the median household income in Century was $25,500. Resources are limited in the rural area, often requiring citizens to drive to Pensacola for services, if transportation is available. Families attending Operation Warm typically have two to four children receiving coats. Each family checks in, identifies a coat size, tries it on to make sure it's the right fit, and leaves with a big smile knowing they have their own new coat. There were also other resources available on site - UWWF, Legal Services of North Florida, and Help Me Grow shared services are available to attendees. One family came in with five children. When asked what size coat they wear, four out of the five siblings looked at their eldest sister for the answer, and she knew their sizes. Each sibling went to their designated size station to try a dress. Not only could see how excited they were, you could also see the relief on the eldest sister's face knowing her younger brothers and sisters had a coat. This event is something we look forward to doing and hope to continue with Anderson Subaru. Working together allowed our organizations to serve a community that needed resources. We were honored to meet them where they were and make our program accessible. The outcome of Operation Warm is more than just a child getting a coat- it is the relief that they have their coat they don't have to share, money parents can spend on a different necessity, and just knowing it is coming from an organization the community can trust. United Way of West Florida is grateful to work with Anderson Subaru and looks forward to continuing our relationship.
