Share the Love: What can $40,000 provide for the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf?

The Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf doesn't provide just food, they provide opportunities to local Vermonters in need. Help us Share the Love with them this year; for every new Subaru sold between now and January 2, 2015, we're able to donate $250 to the Food Shelf or one of five charities of our customers' choice.

Our goal: to provide CEFS with $40,000. Visit our website to learn more, and read below to see exactly how much food $40,000 can buy.

Just $1 provides three meals for CEFS, $250 provides a family of four with a two and a half week supply of groceries, $12,500 buys 6,250 lbs of food. With $40,000, CEFS could provide:

• 120,000 meals
• A two and a half week supply of groceries to 160 families of four
• 20,000 lbs of food

Help us Share the Love this year! Learn more about Share the Love on our website here, or visit feedingchittenden.org to learn more about the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf.

Subaru Receives Three ALG Residual Value Awards

The 2015 Subaru Legacy

For 15th annual ALG Awards, ALG honored the 2015 vehicles that are predicted to hold onto the most value. This year, Subaru was awarded with three Residual Value Awards for the 2015 Legacy, 2015 WRX and 2015 Outback in their respective segments.

The 2015 Subaru WRX

The ALG Residual Value Awards are an "industry benchmark", and they're used to project future value and depreciation data of vehicles examined. The Legacy took top honors as the Best Midsize Car, the WRX came in first with Best Sports Car, while the Outback was named the Best Midsize Utility 2 Row.

The Outback and Legacy both received the same awards in 2011 and 2012; Subaru was also named the Best Mainstream Brand in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

The 2015 Subaru Outback

“Subaru's redesign for the 2015 Legacy and Outback make these vehicles some of the most refined in their segments,” said President of ALG Larry Dominique in the Subaru press release. “There is little doubt that they'll continue to elicit the strong brand loyalty that Subaru is known for, while enabling the brand to conquest sales from other entries in their segments."

Check out our online selection of the 2015 Legacy, 2015 WRX and 2015 Outback here!


All information and images via Subaru

Burlington Subaru Aims for $40,000 Donation to the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf

Burlington Subaru Partners With CEFS in Honor of Subaru of America's Annual Share the Love Event

From Nov. 20, 2014 to Jan. 2, 2015, Subaru will donate $250 for every new Subaru sold or leased to the customer's choice of five charities; ASPCA, Make-A-Wish, Meals On Wheels Association of America, National Park Foundation or a local nonprofit chosen by the Subaru dealer; at Burlington Subaru, they have chosen to support CEFS for the second consecutive year in the hopes of raising $40,000 for the local nonprofit.

"The Share the Love event offers us a unique opportunity each year to provide a pretty substantial amount of assistance to a local organization. We're partnering with the Food Shelf again this year because we really stand behind what they do and they work nonstop to provide much needed assistance to local Vermonters," said Burlington Subaru General Manager Steve Kelson. "Our donation goal is much higher for 2014, and we're excited to work hard to reach it."

The $40,000 donation goal is a large increase from the $30,000 goal they had and reached in 2013. According to CEFS Development Manager Sophia Morton, just $1 provides three meals to the Food Shelf; if Burlington Subaru succeeds in their goal of raising $40,000, CEFS could provide 120,000 meals to Vermonters in need.

“The Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf is thrilled to partner with Burlington Subaru again this year. The Share the Love event helps us reach the Food Shelf’s mission of providing our services to 11,000 food-insecure people living in Chittenden county," said Morton. "We are excited for the new and generous goal of raising $40,000, and we have complete faith that the Burlington Subaru team will reach it!"

Alongside providing hot meals six days per week, CEFS offers a variety of other hunger-relief programs; a Grocery Distribution Program, Hot Meal Service, Homebound Grocery Delivery Program, Summertime Brown Bag Lunch Program and a Community Kitchen Academy. CEFS currently serves over 12,000 people each year.

To learn more about CEFS, please visit their website at www.feedingchittenden.org. For more information regarding the Share the Love Event or Burlington Subaru, please contact Steve Kelson at (802) 448-3856 or visit www.subaruvt.com/community/share-the-love.htm.