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North Shore Bank recently contributed $1,200 from their employee Jeans Day Program to The Reading Food Pantry. From left to right: Simone Payment, executive director of the Reading Food Pantry, Thomas Seyffert, the bank's Reading branch manager, and Phyllis Maxwell, former director of the Reading Food Pantry. Photo courtesy of North Shore Bank
Brookline Bank
Brookline Bank announced it’s the official corporate sponsor of The Lyric Stage Company of Boston’s year-long 50th anniversary celebration. Specifics of the donation were not disclosed in the announcement.
Cape Cod 5
Hyannis-based Cape Cod 5 announced $102,328 worth of mini-grants to 220 teachers at 82 local schools. The 213 grants, awarded through the bank’s foundation, will fund educational projects the teachers have developed covering social emotional learning, community engagement, diversity, equity and inclusion, local history, environmentalism and STEAM topics.
Fidelity Bank
Leominster-based Fidelity Bank announced its 2023 donations tally hit $500,000, given to more than 250 organizations, events and charitable endeavors throughout Central and Eastern Massachusetts.
Monson Savings Bank
Monson Savings Bank announced it coordinated $7,942 worth of donations to the United Way of the Pioneer Valley in 2023 via a donation and pledge drive organized by the bank’s human resources department. Employees donated and pledged a total of $5,184, then raise an additional $1,063 through a competitive bank-wide internal bingo game and $695 through the Bank’s TGIF Dress Down Program. Monson Savings Bank also provided a corporate donation of $1,000.
North Shore Bank
North Shore Bank announced its employees recently presented the Reading Food Pantry with a $1,200 contribution raised via one of its regular Jeans Day events.
Rollstone Bank & Trust
Leominster-based Rollstone Bank & Trust announced a $10,000 donation to the American Red Cross of Massachusetts to provide support to its Home Fire Campaign, which instals free smoke alarms in homes that don’t have them and seeks to educate people about home fire safety.
