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?
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 Gustman 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.
Love Promise Stories from Gustman Subaru
Subaru and Gustman 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
Gustman Subaru Delivers Blankets and Compassion - Brenda K
Jeff Hoppa of Gustman Subaru rolled up to ThedaCare Regional Cancer Center on June 27th in a vehicle packed with love for local blood cancer patients. In this tenth year of the partnership between Subaru of America and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), Gustman Subaru stayed true to their focus of being a positive force in the communities in which they live and work. Once again, Gustman Subaru delivered 80 warm, beautiful blankets and messages of encouragement for the patients of ThedaCare Regional Cancer Center. These messages written by Subaru showroom guests coupled with the soft blankets provide a symbol of the warmth shared by their community in their battle with blood cancer. ThedaCare staff shared that the blankets are always loved by the patients and would likely all be gone by that afternoon! LLS Executive Director, Kortney Hamm, shares, “Our partnership with Subaru continues to provide hope, community, comfort, and support to cancer patients in our communities. We couldn’t be more grateful for the continued engagement from our local hospital partnerships and the Subaru teams in showing how we can rally for patients that we serve.”
Gustman Subaru Teams Up to Support Local Community - Shellee B
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 Appleton, this is a harsh reality. Helping others strengthens communities, which is why Gustman 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 Gustman Subaru have helped nearly 900,000 children and adults in urgent need. On 01/23/2025, Gustman Subaru donated 252 coats & 252 shoes/socks to Community Clothes Closet - Menasha, WI. 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.
Gustman Subaru Truly does Share the Love! - Cindy F
Greetings, Jeff and the Gustman Team! On behalf of the Neenah Animal Shelter (NAS), please accept our sincere gratitude for selecting NAS as one of the hometown charities you chose to support during the 2024 Share the Love campaign. The $3,855 raised will go directly toward the care of animals needing temporary shelter. In 2024 we served a record-breaking 852 animals. We can’t do this important work of saving animals and serving community without caring people like you. Your commitment to the Subaru Love Promise is exemplary! Thank you, thank you, thank you! With gratitude, Cindy Flauger, Executive Director, Neenah Animal Shelter. PS - Todd, pauses from playtime to express his appreciation, too!
Gustman Subaru Partners with Pillars in Appleton during the Subaru Share the Love Event - Lisa S
Dear Jeff and the Gustman Team, Thank you for your recent gift of $12,000.00 to Pillars. Through your gift, you are helping to provide shelter, support, and solutions to address homelessness and housing instability in our community. Marty* first came to Pillars' shelter in Feb 2023. Although she worked hard to find employment, she was not successful. Later that year, Marty was diagnosed with breast cancer. While working with a Pillars case manager, Marty maintained a positive attitude, was approved for SSI, and continued looking for employment. Marty recently moved into a new Pillars Single Room Occupancy home and found employment. Through her own strength and the collaboration of several Pillars programs, Marty now has employment, ongoing support, and a home to call her own. The journey from homelessness to coming home is rarely linear and the road can be bumpy, but no matter where our clients are on this journey, you have been there for them. Your support means the world to someone who is facing homelessness! Thank you for being part of the Pillars team! We are better together, and collectively we can find innovative, effective solutions so experiences of homelessness are rare and brief and everyone has a place to call home. Yours in partnership, Lisa Strandberg Executive Director Pillars *Client's name has been changed to protect their privacy.
Gustman Subaru Surprises Local Teachers with $5,000 Donation at Badger Elementary School in Appleton - Emily C
Greetings Jeff and the Whole Gustman Team, Badger Elementary would like to extend a huge thanks for the very generous donation as part of AdoptAClassroom.org. Our staff, students and our whole Badger community feel so very grateful of your dedication and support of our teachers and students here at Badger. Badger Elementary School is a very special place with an amazing student and family population. It feels amazing to know that our partners in the community recognize our student community and want to contribute. Thanks again! Grateful, Emily Clark, Principal Badger Elementary School Appleton, WI
Gustman Subaru Supports the Waupaca Fine Arts Festival - Jeffrey H
Dear Gustman Subaru, The Waupaca Fine Arts Festival would like to extend our appreciation for your generous contribution and support of the arts in our Waupaca area. Your thoughtful contribution keeps the Fine Arts in Waupaca vibrant and alive. Visit our new website to learn of upcoming events and see a photographic history of Waupaca Fine Arts Festival events! www.fineartsfestival.org Carole A. Johnson, Treasurer Waupaca Fine Arts Festival, Inc
Gustman Subaru Share the Love with The Community Clothes Closet - Lisa J
Dear Friends at Gustman Subaru, Thank you for your donation of $1,050 to Community Clothes Closet from the Share the Love Event. Your investment will support the 10,000+ friends and neighbors we serve annually and is greatly appreciated by each of those clients. The majority of our clients are working but struggle to make ends meet. Half of our clients are children. We help veterans, the disabled, the homeless, older adults and victims of a natural disaster such as fire or flood. New refugees are a quickly growing category of clients, including families relocated to the area from Afghanistan and Ukraine. Sadly, we are a resource for survivors of domestic violence and children entering the foster care system; those who typically have nothing but the clothes on their backs. Often it is quotes from the people most directly affected that illustrate the impact of your support. In their own words, our friends speak out below: "Thank you so much for my set of sheets that I got yesterday. This is the first time I've had sheets in 15 years and I just appreciate it so much. I can't wait to go to bed tonight." "I feel like I finally am home. Please keep doing everything that you do- so many more people are suffering. I came herewith one set of clothes, and I like to think about what I have now. I want to go to school, become an electrical engineer." Again, thank you for supporting our mission of providing free clothing to all people in need; YOU are lifting up our clients and our community. Sincerely, Lisa Jones Executive Director Community Clothes Closet
Gustman Subaru Partners with The Community Clothes Closet - Lisa J
Dear Jeff and Team, Thank-you for picking Community Clothes Closet as the recipient of the year's Operation Warm Coats and Shoes! This gist is truly appreciated and directly impacts the families we're serving. With a record of 10,000 served this past year, your support makes such a difference. Thank-you for all you do for our community, and we look forward to growing our partnership. Lisa Jones Executive Director Community Clothes Closet
Gustman Subaru Gifts the Patients of ThedaCare Regional Cancer Center - Brenda K
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is proud to have been chosen again this year by Gustman Subaru to bless cancer patients treated at ThedaCare Regional Cancer Center. In June, long-time LLS volunteers David and Linda DeGroot had the privilege of helping deliver the Subaru Loves to Care blankets to the ThedaCare Cancer Center staff. David and Jeff Hoppa of Subaru were also able to gift multiple blankets and notes of inspiration from Subaru customers to patients as they checked in for their appointments. They were pleased to be able to express the community's support in their fight to beat cancer! The blankets were greatly appreciated by those who received the gift, and many more will be receiving these blankets in the coming months. ThedaCare staff was welcoming and very appreciative on behalf of all their patients for the support this partnership between Gustman Subaru and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has provided over the past years. Through this nationwide partnership, Subaru retailers will have supported nearly 350,000 cancer patients by the end of this year. Subaru is proud to be LLS’s largest automotive donor. Linda DeGroot expressed her appreciation saying, “Thanks for allowing us to be part of this community support program to those in the fight against cancer!”
Gustman Subaru Partners with Pillars for Subaru Loves to Help - Sadie O
Thanks to Gustman Subaru, we received 500 pairs of socks to hand out to our clients. Socks can really make a difference in comfort and warmth when spending a lot of time outside, especially in Wisconsin winters. We serve around 250 people each year in our Adult Shelter. 500 socks allows us to give two pairs of socks to each of our Adult Shelter clients, making their daily routines much more comfortable. On top of that Gustman Subaru donated $8,600 to help us fulfill our Mission; which is: From homelessness to coming home, Pillars provides shelter, support, and solutions to address the housing needs in our community. Thanks to Gustman Subaru for giving back to our Community and supporting Pillars!
