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 Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg 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.
Castaway Critters, Humane Society of the Harrisburg Area, Speranza Animal Rescue
Capital Area Greenbelt, Love the Hill
Central PA Friends of Jazz, Dauphin County Vo-Tech, Foose Elementary School, Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, LOOP Boyz & Girlz, Milton Hershey School, River City Big Band, Susquehanna Art Museum
CATRA, Cocoa Packs, Diakon Youth Services, Graceful Acres, Paxton Ministries, The Middletown Home
K9 Hero Haven, Leukemia & Lyphoma Society, PA Breast Cancer Coalition, The Kidney Foundation
Love Promise Stories from Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg
Subaru and Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg 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
Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg 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 Harrisburg, this is a harsh reality. Helping others strengthens communities, which is why Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg 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 Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg have helped nearly 900,000 children and adults in urgent need. On 01/20/2025, Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg donated 252 coats & 252 shoes/socks to United Way of the Capital Region. 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.
Cycle for a Cause Supporting a Greener, Cleaner Greenbelt - Ronald S
Bright and early on the sunny Sunday morning of June 7th, nearly 1,500 local residents descended on Harrisburg to participate in the Capital Area Greenbelt Association’s (CAGA’s) 25th annual Tour de Belt bike ride and signature fundraising event. We couldn’t be more pleased with the results of this year’s “Tour de Belt” We’re so grateful to all those who contributed to the effort – from bike participants, to sponsors, to community volunteers – and made it such a fun and successful event! The Tour de Belt event began at 9am at the Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) campus in Harrisburg. From there, riders circled the city on the Greenbelt, making a 20-mile loop featuring picturesque natural areas, parks, and open areas as it winded through the City of Harrisburg. The ride ended at the HACC Campus where there was live music and entertainment, food trucks, and fun activities. Faulkner Subaru has been our main Sponsor of the Tour de Belt event for the last 7 years when I approached Doug Jones, the General Manager at Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg, Faulkner has not only sponsored this event but they adopted a 1 mile portion of the 20 mile trail that runs by their dealership in Harrisburg, bi-weekly their employees maintain the adopted 1 mile trail. Funds raised from the Tour de Belt event will benefit CAGA’s efforts to support improvements and maintenance of the Greenbelt, it’s a year-round effort by dedicated volunteers to care for and improve this important community resource. We have approached many businesses in the Harrisburg area and it has been Faulkner Subaru who has stepped up in many ways throughout the year to help us with not only to maintain the 20 mile Greenbelt Trail, but they also help us to raise funds in many different events we have scheduled throughout the year and whenever we need volunteers for events they are always there to help us many times sending 10 to 15 volunteers to an event, I don’t know what we would do without Faulkner Subaru, Thank you Doug Jones and your staff for always being there for us and your efforts in keeping the Capital Area Greenbelt clean and beautiful, Diane Kripas, Captial Area Greenbelt Association
Providing Warmth to Patients at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital - Ronald S
Providing warmth to patients is exactly what the team at Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg has been doing for many years! On June 16th in a long-standing partnership with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS), Faulkner Subaru delivered 80 blankets and 50 patient care kits to Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital. The staff at Penn State Hershey shared their gratitude for the delivery and mentioned that after opening up more beds, this will be the perfect amount that each child will receive a blanket. Our staff at Penn State Hershey are extremely thankful for the generosity of Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg, our partnership is now in its 10th year of donating to the Hershey Medical Center, thank you Faulkner Subaru for putting a smile on the faces of our kids with cancer. Pamela Baranowski, Hershey Medical Center
Grill & Give Back: Honoring Heroes with Heart - Ronald S
For the 7th year in a row Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg help us with our annual Memorial Day cookout, Faulkner is just 1 mile down the street from our facility, the Paxton Home, they helped us kick off our summertime picnic season with our residents on Memorial Day 2025, knowing that we have many military veterans housed at the Paxton Home, Faulkner Subaru reached out to us and ask us what we do at the home on Memorial Day, we had nothing planned so they asked if they could come down to our facility and have a cookout for our residents and staff, which is about 150 people. We were flabbergasted that one of our local businesses would do this for us. We said yes right away and asked them what we needed to do for the cookout, they said nothing, just bring our residents out to your picnic area at the home and we’ll take care of everything else. On Memorial Day they showed up with car loads of food and drinks, the staff at Faulkner set up tables and tables of food and grilled hamburgers, hotdogs and sausage, the employees and Subaru Ambassadors not only set up everything, but also served all of us as we went through the food lines, needless to say we were amazed at the compassion they had for our residents, at the Paxton Home we offer housing for adults with physical and mental disabilities and to watch the interaction between our residents and the Faulkner team was so encouraging and made me feel good and gave me hope for our residents. The energetic Faulkner team stayed after the event to help us get everything down and stowed away for the next picnic. It’s a blessing to have Faulkner Subaru as our neighbor! Their generosity in contributing their time, talents, and treasure to Paxton Home makes such a difference as we fulfill our mission and brings joy and fun to our residents as they enjoy these special events. We are so grateful to have such civic-minded neighbors who joyfully serve others with love! David Zilka, Executive Director, Paxton Home
Ride Toward a Brighter Future: Bikes for Kids in Need - Ron S
Youth10xbetter is a non-profit organization that is made up of a 100% volunteer staff, our mission is to help and provide structure, a positive atmosphere and mentorship for youths in our community here in Harrisburg Pa. We strive to give the kids in the program a sense of self-esteem and help them to understand teamwork as well as the values and principles taught in our program will prepare them for a positive future with the opportunity to become well rounded adults. Many of our kids in the Youth10xBetter program are dealing with family issues including hunger, social issues and basic needs that children are lacking now more than ever. It’s been 8 years since I stopped in to talk to Doug Jones, the General Manager at Faulkner Subaru in Harrisburg, we were talking about all of the struggles our students in our program are having and Doug suggested organizing an event at the dealership to surprise and help our kids in the program whereby we give every child in the Youth10xbetter program a new bicycle and now we are in our 8th year of giving bikes away to kids in the city of Harrisburg. I thought this was a great idea, especially knowing that most of the children in the program don’t have a bike. Every year I give Doug the names and ages of the 100 children in our program and he and his employees buy 100 bikes to be given away at our yearly bike event. The Faulkner Subaru staff are amazing, many of the employees come to the bike give-a-way event to volunteer and help us organize the days festivities. It is hard to express what this act of kindness means to these kids, for the last 8 years seeing the smiles on their faces was so comforting for me knowing that these children could put all of their struggles aside for a few hours and they can just be a kid and enjoy the moment and to see the Faulkner employees interact with the kids was also truly inspiring. We couldn’t have done this without the help from Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg, Doug always stayed in contact with us through the years and would constantly ask us what we needed, Faulkner Subaru has been partnered with us and helping our Youth10xbetter program since 2017 and they have always been there for us. We provide services to the community at no cost and without Faulkner Subaru we couldn’t provide our much needed services to our community, Thank you Faulkner Subaru for what you do for our Youth10xbetter program. James Lyles, Founder 10xBetter
Investing In the Future of Our Students - Ron S
It was a Monday morning in February of this year when I called Doug Jones, General Manager, at Faulkner Subaru in Harrisburg to see if he would have any interest in helping us start a new program at the Millersburg Area High School, where I am the Special Academy Program Director, a new position the school created last year to help students struggling with life balance issues both at school and home, the new program also helps High School students with their post-graduation plans. We are a school district which is located just north of Harrisburg, living in the area I know Faulkner Subaru in Harrisburg does a lot for our community and I decided to contact them on a chance they would participate in our new program we want to institute here at the school. It’s now been 6 weeks since Faulkner Subaru and Millersburg Area School District partnered together to start our new program for our students, and it has been more than I could ever hope for. To actually work with the Faulkner staff has been an unbelievable experience, I can tell that their employees and staff are used to handling events, they came to us with ideas and recommendations for the new program we were implementing in the school, they suggested bringing students they may want to work in the automotive industry after they graduate to Faulkner Subaru to learn and become familiar with the department they are interested in, Doug told us, at one of our school board meetings, that there are 6 different departments within the dealership from Sales, Service, Parts, Finance, BDC and Accounting and that if any of our students that may want to pursue a career in one of these departments that they could come and participate in an internship program, we thought this was a great idea so we put together an internship program in just a few days with Faulkner's guidance, we currently have 2 of our students, a Senior and a Junior, in High School that go to Faulkner Subaru every Friday, they want to become Technicians after they graduate, after 5 weeks of the program our 2 students absolutely love going to Faulkner Subaru, they are mentored by 2 of Faulkner’s Master Certified Technicians, they are learning so much with hands on training, they like it so much the students asked if they could go to Faulkner 2 days per week, we asked Doug if that would be Ok and he made that happen. Since day one of our relationship with Faulkner Subaru it has been amazing, their staff is committed to making our community a better place and to top it off, we invited Doug and his team to come to a school board meeting so we could recognize them and to say Thank you for all their help and advice and when they came to the meeting they surprised us with a check for $5000.00, the school board and the public were stunned when Doug addressed the board to actually thank us for caring for our students enough to start a program that helps the kids after graduation plans and with life skills. What I didn’t know is Doug overheard me talking to one of the teachers about how we needed some new computers for the new program we put into place at the school, so he gave us funding to purchase them. Thank you, Faulkner Subaru, for caring for and helping us shape the future of our students, Jeremias Garcia, Academy Program Director, Millersburg Area School District
Planting for the Future - Ron S
On behalf of the Capital Area Greenbelt Association, I would like to thank Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg for the donation of 32 native trees from the Arbor Day Foundation to the Greenbelt. Most of the trees were planted on Cameron Parkway on Earth Day, with a volunteer group from Faulkner Subaru who helped us do some of the planting which we did not expect, but it doesn’t surprise me with the crew at Faulkner Subaru. A few of the trees were planted at the Five Senses Garden, and a few will be planted along the Fort Hunter connector. We are grateful for the trees and the Arbor Day Foundation teaming up with Faulkner Subaru, the Greenbelt Trail is a 10 mile trail that goes through and around the city of Harrisburg Pa, Faulkner Subaru has been a great partner of ours for the last 10 years helping us with fundraisers, volunteering and keeping the trail clean with their bi-weekly clean-up events where they have their employees and Subaru Ambassadors every other Saturday pick up trash and maintain the Greenbelt Trail, Thank you Faulkner Subaru for making our city a better place to live and work and thank you to the team at the dealership in helping me to load the trees into my truck, you all should be proud of the difference you are making in our community. Sue Wright Captial Area Greenbelt Association
Sharing The Love for 11 years - Ron S
It was 11 years ago, in 2014, when Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg contacted me to see how they could help us here at Graceful Acres in Halifax Pennsylvania, that’s right, they contacted us. Doug Jones, General Manager, told me that he heard about Graceful Acres Therapeutic Horseback riding facility through one of his customers who just bought a new Subaru. When I first talked to Doug it was like I had known him all my life. He asked me how he could help us and what our biggest needs were. I told him about our goal of saving to build an indoor riding facility which will allow our riders to continue their skill work during the winter months. Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg chose us to be their Share the Love hometown charity for the third year; we are so grateful for their support and generosity. To have Faulkner Subaru pick us as their hometown charity for the third time in the last 11 years was amazing, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised because Faulkner Subaru has been there for us and has been helping and volunteering at our therapeutic Horseback riding facility for the last 11 years, It’s hard to find the words to express how much we appreciate what Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg has done for us and how the funds and their time they volunteer at our horse farm has enhanced our mission in helping these children, the kids love interacting with the Faulkner crew! Graceful Acres is a therapeutic horseback riding facility in Dauphin County, just north of Harrisburg Pa, we have 150 acres and 22 horses we rescued from all over the country and train them to work with children with disabilities, Our mission is to help special needs children using our well-trained horses to promote balance, coordination and self-assurance, as a result of carefully planned horseback riding lessons, the children develop strength both mentally and physically as well as muscle stimulation and an overall sense of self confidence. Graceful Acres is named after my grandmother Grace, she always loved children and wanted to help the less fortunate any way she could, so when she passed away, I transformed her horse farm into a therapeutic horseback riding facility in honor of her. She would be so proud of how we are helping over 100 children a week with special needs. In our 11-year partnership, Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg has raised and donated over $150,000 to Graceful Acres, and we are now able to build the indoor riding facility that we’ve been saving for, thanks to Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg for making our dreams come true and helping and supporting us to help children with disabilities, Jon Mattis, owner, Graceful Acres.
A 15 year partnership that continues to Surprise us - Ron S
I wanted to extend a heartfelt thank you to Faulkner Subaru in Harrisburg for including us in the Pennsylvania Auto Show this past weekend. What a great SURPRISE when Evelyn Bertoni, a Salesperson at Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg, called me at the direction of her manager, to see if we would like to participate in the 2025 Pennsylvania Auto show, when she told me that they wanted us to bring some dogs that needed adopted to the show I couldn’t believe it, Faulkner put together a beautiful display with a 30 feet by 30 feet fenced in area right in the middle of their Auto Show display for us to bring dogs that needed a home. It was truly an exciting experience, and we’re thrilled to share that we had 13 adorable dogs find their forever homes as a result of your generosity. We adopted every single dog we brought to the Auto Show; this is something that has never happened before at one of our events. We are especially grateful for the kind gesture of Faulkner providing the adopters with thoughtful dog kits, it adds an extra touch of care that means so much to the new pet owners and their furry friends. The dogs that participated in the event were part of our Second Chance Program. Because of Faulkner Subaru’s help we are fortunate to have the resources and expertise to assist other communities in need. Our mission involves relocating homeless pets at risk of euthanasia from overcrowded shelters as well as being able to provide medical care they wouldn't otherwise receive. This program gives the animals a much-needed second chance to find loving homes. It not only expands lifesaving to other areas, it also supports local lifesaving opportunities. Thanks to the support of Faulkner Subaru these precious pups received their Second Chance this weekend! Faulkner Subaru has supported us in many ways throughout the past 15 plus years, they truly care about our community and the many pets that need a loving home. Thank you once more for your incredible support you give the Harrisburg Humane Society and our community, Shaylee Payne Community Engagement Coordinator
Faulkner helps to keep the Greenbelt Green - Ronald S
Thanks to our Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg employees and Subaru Ambassadors for helping every month to clean up the Capital Area Greenbelt in Harrisburg Pa., Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg has been supporting the Capital Area Greenbelt for 9 years and sponsors many events the Greenbelt has throughout the year, the Greenbelt trail is a 20-mile loop through and around Harrisburg. It passes along the Susquehanna River through Riverfront Park, through wooded areas, urban offices, residential areas, and scenic parks, including Reservoir Park and Wildwood Park. A majority of the trail is on dedicated paths with parts on local roads. The trail is a mixture of paved, gravel, and crushed stone. Faulkner Subaru adopted a 1-mile portion of the trail which passes next to the dealership, our employees along with many of our Subaru Ambassadors make sure our 1 mile adopted section of the trail is safe and clear of debris. Thanks to all the volunteers at Faulkner for making our community a better place, the Faulkner employees and Subaru Ambassadors are a dedicated group of people that come out twice a month for the past 9 years to volunteer their time to make our city of Harrisburg a clean and beautiful place to enjoy the outdoors. Diane Kripas, Vice President, Capital Area Green Belt
