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?
The Subaru Love Promise® is our vision to show love and respect to all people at every interaction with Subaru. Subaru and our retailers believe every day gives us an opportunity to positively impact the world around us – by how we support each other, our customers, and our community. Together, we are committed to making the world a better place. \n\n The Love Promise is what makes Subaru More Than a Car Company® and a Subaru retailer More Than a Car Dealer®. It sets a standard that we are committed to living every day. \n\n What is the Subaru Love Promise Community Commitment? \n\n At Subaru, we believe in being a positive force in our community, not just with donations, but with actions that set an example for others to follow. We aim to make the world a better place through several key initiatives that help support and protect people, pets, and our planet:
How is Don K Subaru dedicated locally to the Love Promise?
The Don "K" Love Promise is all about community and how we can contribute to the social needs and cultural well being of the Flathead Valley. There are many community partners and organizations that we support and we are proud to be involved in the community where we all live and work.
Flathead Valley Animal Shelter, Flathead Spay and Neuter Clinics, Flathead Humane Society
Glacier National Park Conservancy, Montana Land Reliance, Eureka, Tobacco County Community Park
Area Schools scholarships, Steinway Fund, Montana Athletic Association, Regional Title 1 schools, BackPack Assistance Program
Whitefish Winter Carnival, Glacier Challenge benefitting MT Youth Homes, Flathead regional Food Banks, Alpine Theater Project - Scholarship Program
Sunshine Mental Health Services, Pediatric Health Services, Kalispell Regional Medi
Love Promise Stories from Don K Subaru
Subaru and Don K 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
Subaru Loves Learning - Tia L
Don “K” Subaru celebrated Subaru Loves Learning last month by supporting classrooms at West Valley School in Kalispell. Through AdoptAClassroom.org, the dealership awarded $500 each to six West Valley teachers to purchase supplies and learning tools tailored to their students’ needs, and contributed an additional $1,000 directly to the school to bolster school-wide educational resources. “Teachers are the heartbeat of our community, and when we invest in their classrooms, we invest in every student’s future,” said Kevin Kaltschmidt, General Manager at Don “K” Subaru. “Subaru Loves Learning is more than a slogan for us - it’s a commitment to equip local educators with the materials and support they need to inspire curiosity, confidence, and lifelong learning.” “This support means so much to us, not just financially, but emotionally as well,” said Alesia Hamill, Elementary Principal at West Valley School. “It shows our teachers that their hard work and dedication is seen and valued beyond the walls of our building. For our students, it means more engaging lessons, better access to tools that support their learning styles, and the simple but powerful message that their education matters to our broader community. We appreciate Subaru Loves Learning and Don ‘K’ Subaru!” This latest initiative reflects Don “K” Subaru’s ongoing focus on strengthening local schools and creating opportunities for students and educators across the Flathead Valley. By partnering with AdoptAClassroom.org, the dealership ensures funds go straight to teachers and programs where they can make the most immediate impact.
Subaru Loves to Care - Tia L
For the past few years, Don K Subaru has partnered with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and Logan Health through the Subaru Loves to Care initiative. The partnership involves delivering blankets and messages of hope to cancer patients and survivors. On June 7th, Don K Subaru passed out these items to patients during Logan Health’s Inaugural Cancer Survivors Day. A few of our team members were present for the event and were able to meet and spend time with survivors, who had the opportunity to share their stories. To show their appreciation, Logan Health sent the following: Dear Don K Subaru, Thank you for your generous donation of blankets during Logan Health’s inaugural Cancer Survivors Day. Our patients and staff greatly appreciated the gesture and will enjoy using the blankets throughout treatment and beyond. By supporting Logan Health’s cancer program through gifts like these, you are helping those in our community, uplifting their spirits and comforting them in some of the most difficult times of their cancer journey. We appreciate your support! Sincerely, Logan Health
Don K Subaru Supports Northwest Montana United Way - Joshua S
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 Whitefish, this is a harsh reality. Helping others strengthens communities, which is why Don K 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 Don K Subaru have helped nearly 900,000 children and adults in urgent need. On 02/21/2025, Don K Subaru donated 204 shoes/socks to Northwest Montana United Way. 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.
Don “K” Subaru Share the Love donates to Flathead Sheriff’s Posse - Tia L
Don “K” and Subaru presented a check in the amount of $17,110 on April 29th to the Flathead Sheriff’s Posse as a result of their being chosen by the employees at the dealership to become the 2024 hometown charity beneficiary of the recently completed Subaru Share the Love event. Subaru Share the Love is an annual giving program. The donations come from a portion of the sale price of every new Subaru sold or leased during the November through December 2024 campaign. Buyers choose a charity: The ASPCA, Make-a-Wish, Meals on Wheels Association of America, the National Park Foundation, or our local hometown charity, the Flathead Sheriff’s Posse. In addition to the national campaign, Don “K” Subaru added $50 per Subaru sold or leased to the total contributed by Subaru. The Flathead Sheriff’s Posse is a 60-member, well-trained volunteer organization that serves the public by providing supplemental auxiliary law enforcement services, including event security, election monitoring, crime scene assistance, fire scene duties, assisting sworn deputies, helping in detention centers, and more as needed. Captain John Shaw said, “Thank you seems inadequate to express our gratitude to the folks at Don K Subaru for this donation and support. The activities of the Sheriff’s Posse are not funded by taxpayers, so the loyalty and support of community businesses like Don “K” are vital to our ability to train our members and support the community at large. Kevin Kaltschmidt, General Manager of Don “K” Subaru, said, “Being locally involved is much more than just words to us, it is a priority. We live here, raise our families here, and, thanks to the incredible loyalty and support of our customers, we can give back in meaningful ways. In this case, we can help one of our vital first responders with the resources and tools that they need to provide help, safety, and protection to all of us. Subaru’s Share the Love campaign, and our hundreds of loyal Subaru customers have made this possible.” Don “K” Subaru is just one of the brands of exceptional vehicles sold at Don “K” Whitefish. Over their 35 years, and as the last remaining locally owned dealership in Northwest Montana, they have consistently received acclaim as the best dealership in the Valley and have repeatedly been recognized for their exceptional customer service across the Flathead.
Subaru Loves the Earth Arbor Day Event - Tia L
At Don K Subaru, we care deeply about our community and are committed to keeping our neighborhoods vibrant and healthy now and for generations to come. Trees are vital to this effort – they provide oxygen, cool our community, filter water, clean the air, prevent flooding and improve health. But every year, our community loses trees due to age, disease, infestation and extreme weather. Don K Subaru is proud to partner with the Arbor Day Foundation to help address this problem. This spring as part of our Subaru Loves the Earth initiative, Don K provided and distributed 100 mature, regionally appropriate trees that will benefit our local community for years to come. Customers were able to reserve trees online ahead of time and were able to choose between a Sugar Maple and a Red Maple tree. This was our first year handing out trees at the dealership and the positive feedback was overwhelming! All 100 trees were reserved a month ahead of the event. Thank you to everyone who participated!
Subaru Loves To Help - Tia L
This past February, Don K Subaru partnered up with Northwest Montana United Way in Kalispell for the Subaru Loves to Help campaign. We got the opportunity to spend time with some awesome young people, who were able to receive a pair of brand new shoes and two pairs of socks. The shoes were set up on tables for the kids to pick out their favorite color and our volunteers were there to make sure that they received the right size. From happy smiles, countless thank yous and lots of sprinting around the lobby in their new shoes, these kids made this one of our most fun and rewarding events yet!
Subaru Loves Pets - Ashlynn F
This past October the Team from Don “K” Subaru named us at their Hometown charity for Subaru Loves Pets. They were wonderful to work with in every way and they even held a puppy adoption event in their showroom. Their participation resulted in the adoption of all the puppies from the litter. In addition, their incredibly generous donation to the Humane Society will make a big difference in the number of dogs and cats we can help to find forever, loving homes this winter. Thank you for caring right down at the local level where real people actually live and work. Stacie
A message of hope - Jeremy S
With care and compassion, we put our best foot forward. We as a dealership care immensely for our community. When we are given an opportunity to help, we go above and beyond. In this case we had the opportunity to help some people that were really in need. Cancer is hard enough, but not being comfortable can make it so much worse. Having the pillow that turns into a blanket is huge. Just that little bit of warmth and have a place to rest your head is epic. It was a great feeling to be able to donate as many pillows as we did. Don K has and always will care deeply for our community, especially the ones in need. I hope that we are able to help the hospital for many more years to come.
Flathead K9 Foundation - Jeremy S
What a truly amazing day at Don K Subaru. Here at Don K in Whitefish, MT we love our community. That being said we help the ones that help us, and keep us safe. In keeping with that, we picked the Flathead K9 Foundation. Saving lives and taking out the bad guys is what they do. We feel that there jobs are so important. Don K and Subaru have made a huge donation of $21,700 this will help in a huge way. What an amazing amount of money to help with what they may need. Lets keep our community safe and help with finding lost and hurt people. I feel that we picked the best charity.
United Way - Jeremy S
What a great day we had!!! It was such a wonderful time, we had the opportunity to help kids in need. We set up shop at the United Way HQ in Kalispell, MT. The shoes and socks where all set up on tables for the kids to see which ones they feel in love with. We helped each kid find there size, then made it fun for them buy letting them take off and see what color they loved. For everyone involved we had a huge smile on our faces. What a great way to help out the community, kids are so wonderful. I cant put into words how happy it made me and all the Don K Subaru employees. Its just a wonderful feeling to help out kids in need.
