Make-A-Wish Receives More than USD 2.8 Million Donation through Subaru Share the Love Event
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ake-A-Wish announced today that the organization has received a donation of more than USD 2.8 million from Subaru of America, Inc. through the 2019 Subaru Share the Love Event.
As part of the twelfth annual event, from Nov. 14, 2019 to Jan. 2, 2020 Subaru donated $250 for every new Subaru vehicle purchased or leased to customers' choice of four participating national charities, including Make-A-Wish, or one of the retailer's selected hometown charities.
Make-A-Wish became a national charity partner eight years ago and has received a total of more than $22 million in donations through the Subaru Share the Love Event. These funds have enabled more than 2,400 life-changing wishes for children battling critical illnesses nationwide.
Select local Subaru retailers could also choose either one or two hometown charities from their community where customers could direct their support. Twenty-two Subaru retailers chose their local Make-A-Wish chapter, generating additional funds through local donations to help children with critical illnesses replace fear with confidence, anxiety with hope and sadness with joy.
For the last 40 years, Make-A-Wish has sought to bring every eligible child's wish to life because a wish is an integral part of a child's treatment journey, said Richard K. Davis, president and CEO at Make-A-Wish America. Partners like Subaru and the dollars raised through the Subaru Share the Love Event are vital to enabling more life-changing wishes for children battling critical illnesses because every child deserves a childhood.
As part of the 2019 Subaru Share the Love Event, Subaru and Make-A-Wish celebrated local wish alumni and kids like 7-year-old Cameron, who has been battling lymphoma since he was five. Cameron's parents, grandparents, siblings and first-grade class joined Make-A-Wish Georgia and Classic Subaru to share that Cameron's wish to swim with pigs in the Bahamas is coming true. Today, Cameron is cancer-free and preparing for his upcoming wish trip.
At Subaru, we take pride in giving back to the local communities in which we and our retailers live and work, said Thomas J. Doll, president and CEO, Subaru of America. For the ninth consecutive year, we are proud to do so through the Make-A-Wish mission, helping more children battling critical illnesses build the physical and emotional strength they need through a wish come true.
Over the last 12 years, the Subaru Share the Love Event has donated more than $175 million to local and national charities. For the fourth consecutive year there was not a cap placed on the total donation from Subaru to Make-A-Wish and other Subaru Share the Love Event charitable partners. To learn more about Subaru and the annual Share the Love Event, please visit www.subaru.com/share.
To find out how to join Subaru and others in making life-changing wishes possible for children with critical illnesses, visit wish.org.
✔️ Make-A-Wish Receives More than USD 2.8 Million Donation through Subaru Share the Love Event
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