Personnel File – No. 336

Who’s on the move? From new VPs to fresh project managers, see who’s been hired, promoted and honored: It’s the latest edition of Banker & Tradesman’s Personnel File.

Community Good Works

Fall River-based BankFive announced the first annual recipient of money from its President’s Scholarship Fund: a $40,000 scholarship for a local high school senior. See who else gave back.

Community Good Works

Monson Savings Bank recently gave $2,500 to to Girls Inc. of the Valley, a nonprofit based in Holyoke that offers a “pro-girl environment based on mutual respect” to Pioneer Valley youth ages 5 to 18. See who else gave back.

Community Good Works

HarborOne Bank made $245,000 in grants through its foundation to 34 nonprofits to support children and families across Southeastern Massachusetts and Greater Boston.

Community Good Works

City Realty Group Managing Partners Fred Starikov and Stephen Whalen visited the AME Zion Church in Boston, part of Boston-based CRG’s yearly tradition of donating turkeys and pies to help those in need.

Community Good Works

Nonprofit Cradles to Crayons was picked by a winning customer to receive a $5,000 donation as part of The Village Bank’s Great Giveaway contest.

Community Good Works

Monson Savings Bank launched its Build-a-Bike campaign this year, with the aim of buying over $20,000 worth of bikes and donating them to local children in honor of the bank’s 150th birthday.

Community Good Works

Fitchburg-based Rollstone Bank & Trust has donated $10,000 the Groton History Center to fund GHC’s education mission, including exhibit expansion, interactive digital learning tools, curriculum development and student program implementation.

Community Good Works

Brockton–based HarborOne Bank made a donation through its foundation of $220,000 in grants to 26 different organizations supporting children and families.

Community Good Works

Brockton-based HarborOne Bank announced the winners of the inaugural HarborOne Cause Pitch Contest held at Big Night Live in Boston. HarborOne Bank and The Greg Hill Foundation both made $25,000 donations for a total of $50,000 in awards.

Community Good Works

Woburn-based Cummings Properties recently pledged $20 million dollars through its foundation to the Rhode Island-based university to support its provision of multidisciplinary architecture and real estate education.

This Month in History: Monson Savings Bank Incorporated

While the Western Massachusetts town of Monson had a commercial bank in the mid-19th century, a group of business leaders wanted to establish a savings bank that would accept small deposits from the workers at the town’s mills, quarries, manufacturers and other industries.

Community Good Works

From “adopting” families in need during the holidays to helping fund credit counselors, local banks and contractors gave back in recent weeks.