A&T Subaru Share the Love brings in $31,000 this year
Charity event benefits Keystone Opportunity Center, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
HILLTOWN >> With the addition of this year’s $16,700, Keystone Opportunity Center has received more than $56,000 in six years as an A&T Subaru hometown charity in the annual Subaru Share the Love campaign.
“It’s enormously helpful,” Arlene Daily, Keystone’s executive director, said during a ceremonial check presentation April 4 at the A&T dealership on Bethlehem Pike.
“It’s a very large donation in the world of a small nonprofit like Keystone,” she said. “It goes to help the peo
ple most in need — people that don’t have food, don’t have homes, or are lacking the education that will allow them to get a good job.”
For the first time this year, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter was also an A&T hometown charity. It received $15,154.
Jennifer Parrado, the chapter’s director for major gifts, called that “incredible.”
“We’re so grateful that A&T selected us this year and we’re looking forward to partnering with them,” she said, “forever.”
This year’s Share the Love campaign ran Nov. 15, 2018 through Jan. 2, 2019, company information says.
During that time, Subaru donated $250 to the Share the Love organizations for each new car that was purchased or leased. The customer making the purchase or lease chose if the donation went to one of four national organizations — the ASPCA, Make-A-Wish, Meals on Wheels or the National Park Foundation — or a hometown charity.
“The mission of Keystone Opportunity Center is to help community members in need by offering a comprehensive array of social services that educate, encourage and empower them to become self-sufficient,” according to information on its website.
“The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is the world’s largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer. The LLS mission: Cure leukemia,
lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS funds lifesaving blood cancer research around the world and provides free information and support services,” according to information on its website.
A&T and LLS also partner in Subaru’s Love to Care drive in June, Parrado said.
That program delivers blankets to hospital patients, she said.
“It’s a warm hug to patients that are actually in treatment,” she said.
Over the last 11 years, Subaru of America and its retailers have donated more than $140 million through Share the Love to national charities and more than 1,170 hometown charities, according to Share the Love information.