Community Good Works

A Workers Credit Union executive organized financial education classes to help students with disabilities and other significant challenges prepare to live independently. See who else gave back.

Webster Five Names New COO

Kate Gallo Megraw will take up the COO post effective March 3. She previously was the Auburn-based bank’s chief information officer and will continue in that role.

Robert Challinor, Jr., representative of the Putnam Veterans Advisory Committee, Robert J. Morton, president and CEO of BankHometown, and Barney Seney, mayor of Putnam, Connecticut, pose for a photo.

Community Good Works

Oxford-based BankHometown announced a $5,000 donation to the Putnam Veterans Advisory Committee, supporting the creation of an Afghanistan Memorial in Putnam. See who else gave back.

Community Good Works

Country Bank donated its former 191 Sykes St. branch in Palmer, valued at $500,000, to Pathfinder Regional Vocational Technical High School to provide classrooms and office space for the school’s expanding adult-ed programs. See who else gave back.

Community Good Works

KeyBank announced a $20,000 gift to the Springfield Boys & Girls Club to support a summer learning program at the club called “Brain Gain.” See who else gave back.

Community Good Works

North Shore Bank, based in Peabody, gave $20,000 to the Essex Community Foundation to support education, healthcare, economic development and social services initiatives. See who else gave back.

How Chief Risk Officers Guard Banks’ Credit Quality

As the industry faces the risk of loan delinquencies amid a high interest rate environment, inflationary pressures and more vacancies in office properties, Massachusetts’ community banks are promoting risk officers into their executive leadership teams to guard against credit risks.

Community Good Works

Construction giant Suffolk gave $1.5 million in materials and staff time to build out an expanded mental health and brain injury clinic for veterans, active-duty service members and their families. See who else gave back.

Community Good Works

Bristol County Savings Bank gave a $10,000 grant to support a local micro-lending program for businesses that can’t ordinarily qualify for bank credit. See who else gave back.

Community Good Works

Eight Massachusetts banks banded together to raise $300,000 for the nonprofit Heading Home, which works to end homelessness. See who else gave back.

Community Good Works

A new $50 million gift from Cummings Foundation, the philanthropic affiliate of Woburn commercial real estate firm Cummings Properties, will expand the work of late global health champion Dr. Paul Farmer.

Community Good Works

Brockton-based SCU Credit Union celebrated World Kindness Day all week long with acts of kindness in the local community. Among these, SCU President and CEO Glenn Parsons traveled to several grocery stores and surprised shoppers by handing out over $3,500 in gift cards to people he met in the aisles.